Manchester pioneered the half-day holiday - Saturday afternoons off - and so helped form the modern weekend in Britain.
Manchester pioneered the half-day holiday - Saturday afternoons off - and so helped form the modern weekend in Britain.
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Philippa Vishnyakov is a Manchester Green Badge Tour Guide and Associate of the Institute of Tourist Guiding
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