Opened in 1930 as one of Britain's first purpose-built municipal airports, Barton Aerodrome, now also known as City Airport, is a historic general aviation airfield at Eccles on the western edge of Greater Manchester. Its Grade II listed control tower and preserved grass airfield give it a strong sense of heritage, and it remains a working airfield as well as a visitor attraction. The site is open to the public and trades partly as a day out, with free parking, a grass viewing area, a children'.....

One of the most ambitious garden projects undertaken in Britain in recent decades, RHS Garden Bridgewater opened in 2021 on the grounds of a lost stately home at Worsley near Salford, reviving a vast Victorian estate as a great public garden for the northwest of England. Created by the Royal Horticultural Society, the charity devoted to gardening, the site covers an enormous area and is among the largest gardens in Europe, transforming what had become overgrown and derelict land into a showcase .....