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Manchester City... Airport?

• Robin Hamman
• 26 Mar 07, 11:13 AM

Aidan O鈥橰ourke's has been going since January 1997, making it one of, and possibly the, first blogs in Manchester. Aidan Eye On Manchester "provides an independent and dissenting view: opinionated but constructive, radical but apolitical, critical but idealistic."

The blog, which includes many original photos of Manchester, covers issues such as the demolition of an about which he writes, "The mills along the Ashton Canal formed a historic ensemble of building, unique in their own way and symbolic of the industrial greatness of Manchester... Will future generations look back and question why so much of Manchester鈥檚 heritage, which survived intact up to the year 2000, was allowed to disappear in the years that followed?"

What caught our attention this time was Barton Aerodrome's name is set to be changed to "City of Manchester Airport". Whilst, as Aidan points out, the airport is actually within the limites of the City of Salford rather than the City of Manchester, "there are good commercial reasons why an airport should be known by the conurbation it serves, not by one district of it."

We're guessing that won't mind the change - afterall, what other football club has a whole airport which shares it's name?! And speaking of Airport, if you're looking for the other one, you can catch up on what's been happening on the Airport Exile's .