babybird wrote:
... most of it was before the IRA decided to blow the city up.
Everyone said they did us a favour, but I beg to differ.
My friend lost his shop and personally I preferred the old Manchester.
Anyway, you can't go back.
I was in Manchester shortly before a bomb went off. The Arndale centre springs to mind - was that the place that got bombed? I was there a day or two beforehand. I was in Manchester on a week long course on computer security and managed to intrigue / annoy the person giving the course because I hacked into his server and locked him out.

He did see the funny side of it though afterwards.
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