 Portico Library & Gallery - Reviews from across the web
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The Portico Library & Gallery
The Gallery space, which is 1,000 square feet, accommodates up to 10 pairs of double-sided screens measuring approximately 6 ft high by 3ft 10ins wide. These can be arranged in a variety of positions and altogether make up 153 line...
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Portico Library & Gallery (The), Manchester | MyTravelGuide.com
Founded in 1806, this beautiful Georgian private subscription library, right in the heart of the city centre, is perfect if you are looking for somewhere to reflect in peace and quiet, away from the busy world outside. Its 25,000 plus rare volumes are mainly 19th-century fiction, travel, history and...
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Portico Library & Gallery - Arts & Leisure Venues - Manchester - Time Out Travel
Tucked unobtrusively away at the side of the Bank pub, and accessed via a buzzer system, the Portico recently celebrated 200 cerebral years of book lending and arts events. Its tightly-packed library, with creaking floorboards, leather-backed chairs and archaic section headings (‘polite literature...
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Portico Library and Gallery - Days out - Entertainment - Manchester Evening News
Early members included John Edward Taylor, founder of The Manchester Guardian, the scientist John Dalton and William Gaskell, chairman of the library and husband of Elizabeth Gaskell, one of the most famous C19 novelists. Elizabeth was a frequent user of the library and was accompanied on occasion b...
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Peter Mark Roget, first secretary of the Portico Library, Manchester, England
In 1824, Roget made important observations in the field of optics. His observations were based initially on looking at the world through a series of slits such as one might have in a vertical Venetian blind or pallisade. A rotating cartwheel viewed through such as system gives an optical illusion. T...
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