Manchester

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University of Manchester

Oxford Road

Newly merged with the city centre campus of UMIST, this sprawling complex is one of the country’s largest educational establishments. Amid the beautiful collection of redbrick, theatre venues (Martin Harris Centre, the John Thaw studio theatre) and history abound – the golden generation of British alternative comedy (Ben Elton, Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson) met and studied here, while Ernest Rutherford’s research led to the splitting of the atom and ‘the Baby’, one of the world’s first computers, was built here in 1948.

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