Oxford Road Science and Innovation Trail

Delve into the special Science Festival podcast and take a self-guided tour around the south of Manchester. Discover fascinating facts, amazing stories and uncover the incidents and moments in Manchester’s past that led to great leaps forward in science, industry and innovation.

Delivered in bite size chunks, the podcast scratches the surface of science and innovation achievements in this most prolific and pioneering of cities. Manchester’s story is a world story. Its innovations across two centuries have been at the forefront of the global march into the technological age we live in today.

And it’s not over. This city is still at the cutting edge of science. Stand quiet for a moment and you can almost hear people thinking, dreaming and planning. Watch this space…