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At the civic heart of Manchester lies Albert Square, a broad public space laid out in the 1860s and dominated by the soaring Gothic Revival town hall that ranks among the finest Victorian buildings in Britain. The square takes its name from the elaborate memorial to Prince Albert, the consort of Queen Victoria, that stands at its centre beneath an ornate canopy, one of the earliest such monuments raised after his death and the model for the better-known example in London. Around it the square is...