Saturday, 19 September 2020

CITY OF MANCHESTER STADIUM, YOLANDA STONE & PEP

THIS MORNING, The Stones have been invited by Pep Guardiola to visit the City of Manchester Stadium.

Yolanda is his greatest fan and follower and Pep has has a wonderful present for her and her family, being the guide during their visit into the Stadium, introducing them the Manchester City players and inviting the family to assist to the training season and to the next match, next Monday versus the Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club in the Molineux Stadium in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire.

Yolanda is astonished and she has written some words in her personal diary. Here we have...

The Stones family prepares a great trip, with The Grandma, full of adventures across Manchester-Hawaii and Buenos Aires this September.

Yesterday, we landed at Manchester Airport. It is a great airport sited in Ringway, 13 km from the centre of the city of Manchester.

Firstly, Manchester is a city usually known by football, and that's why we will visit the Manchester City's Stadium and we will watch the match between Manchester CIty and Wolves. We start! Let's go!

Once there, the hostesses have offered us a welcome cocktail in the VIP zone named 'Aspire Longe', while we were waiting a limousine to go to have lunch in the Catalan food restaurant 'Tast'. The cook is Paco Pérez. He has five Michelin stars and food is very good.

We were eating when Pep Guardiola has appeared. He is the owner of this restaurant and he has said to us: 'You should go to watch the next match between Manchester City and Wolves in Wolverhampton next Mondat at 20:15. I invite you. You are going to be my special guests'.

Yolanda is very happy with this invitation and the rest of the family is going to change their plans to adapt them to this new visit. They know it is a special moment for her and they want to make her happy.

More information: Manchester City FC


 I am grateful to be here, and I will always be grateful for the opportunity Manchester City gave me.

Pep Guardiola

 

THIS EVENING, the family has been to the Manchester Museum. It has been a private visit and they have been alone only accompanied by the Museum guides. David Stone, who is a great sculptor, was very interested in this visit and he has contemplated some of the most beautiful and spectacular creations sited in this amazing museum.

Manchester Museum is a museum displaying works of archaeology, anthropology and natural history and is owned by the University of Manchester, in England.

Sited on Oxford Road (A34) at the heart of the university's group of neo-Gothic buildings, it provides access to about 4.5 million items from every continent. It is the UK's largest university museum and serves both as a major visitor attraction and as a resource for academic research and teaching. It has around 430,000 visitors each year.

The museum's first collections were assembled by the Manchester Society of Natural History formed in 1821 with the purchase of the collection of John Leigh Philips.

The society established a museum in Peter Street, Manchester, on a site later occupied by the Young Men's Christian Association, in 1835.

In 1850 the collections of the Manchester Geological Society (founded 1838) were added. By the 1860s both societies encountered financial difficulties and, on the advice of the evolutionary biologist Thomas Huxley, Owens College (now the University of Manchester) accepted responsibility for the collections in 1867. The museum in Peter Street was sold in 1875 after Owens College moved to new buildings in Oxford Street.

The college commissioned Alfred Waterhouse, architect of London's Natural History Museum, to design a museum to house the collections for the benefit of students and the public on a site in Oxford Road (then Oxford Street).

The Manchester Museum was opened to the public in 1888. At the time, the scientific departments of the college were immediately adjacent, and students entered the galleries from their teaching rooms in the Beyer Building.

Two subsequent extensions mirror the development of its collections. The 1912 pavilion was largely funded by Jesse Haworth, a textile merchant, to house the archaeological and Egyptological collections acquired through excavations he had supported. The 1927 extension was built to house the ethnographic collections. 

The Gothic Revival street frontage which continues to the Whitworth Hall has been ingeniously integrated by three generations of the Waterhouse family. When the adjacent University Dental Hospital of Manchester moved to a new site, its old building was used for teaching and subsequently occupied by the museum.

The museum is one of the University of Manchester's cultural assets, along with the Whitworth Art Gallery, John Rylands Library, Jodrell Bank visitor centre and others.

More information: Manchester Museum

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

Steven Wright

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