Bridgewater Hall
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The Bridgewater Hall is a concert venue in Manchester city centre, England. It cost around £42 million to build in the 1990s, and hosts over 250 performances a year. It is home to the 165-year-old Hal
Bridgewater Hall in 2008
Bridgewater Hall overlooks the Rochdale Canal
Interior
Main auditorium interior, showing the pipe organ
Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, known as Lord Francis Egerton until 1748, was an English peer from the Egerton family. He was the youngest son of the 1st Duke. He did not marry, and the duke
Bridgewater Hall
…venue for the BBC Philharmonic. The building sits on a bed of 280 springs intended to insulate it from external sound. The hall is named after the Third Duke of Bridgewater who commissioned the eponymous Bridgewater Canal that crosses Manchester, although the hall and waterside frontage is situated on a specially constructed…
1868 portrait
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Memorial to the 3rd Duke of Bridgewater in the Bridgewater Chapel at St. Peter and St. Paul Church, Little Gaddesden, where many Egerton family members are buried
The Bridgewater Canal