Manchester businessman Mitchell Henry set up the Manchester Evening News on 10 October 1868. Originally a personal propaganda sheet by which Henry aimed to secure voters to elect him to parliament, when Henry failed to be elected the title was sold to Manchester newsmen, Peter Allen and his brother-in-law John Edward Taylor, under whom circulation increased. In 1879 the company moved from Brown Street to premises in Cross Street shared with the Manchester Guardian. The MEN’s strength lay in the number of classified advertisements placed by local businesses.
In 1924, John Russell Scott, elder son of the Manchester Guardian's C.P. Scott, bought the MEN bringing the newspaper under the same ownership as the Guardian.
By 1939, under the editorship of William Haley, the MEN had become the largest provincial evening paper in Britain. At the end of the Second World War, the MEN pulled off a national scoop by being the first paper to publish the news of the end of the war in Europe.
In 1963, the MEN acquired the failing Evening Chronicle, its main rival, producing a combined title with a daily circulation of around 480,000.
In 2010, the MEN was sold by the Guardian Media Group to Trinity Mirror and moved headquarters from Scott Place, Manchester, to the Trinity Mirror headquarters in Chadderton, Oldham.
Date
1988
Scope and ContentManchester Evening News Souvenir newspaper relating to the Manchester Airport Golden Jubilee, 1988
LanguageEnglish
Archival historyDonated by the Manchester Evening News
Manchester businessman Mitchell Henry set up the Manchester Evening News on 10 October 1868. Originally a personal propaganda sheet by which Henry aimed to secure voters to elect him to parliament, when Henry failed to be elected the title was sold to Manchester newsmen, Peter Allen and his brother-in-law John Edward Taylor, under whom circulation increased. In 1879 the company moved from Brown Street to premises in Cross Street shared with the Manchester Guardian. The MEN’s strength lay in the number of classified advertisements placed by local businesses.
In 1924, John Russell Scott, elder son of the Manchester Guardian's C.P. Scott, bought the MEN bringing the newspaper under the same ownership as the Guardian.
By 1939, under the editorship of William Haley, the MEN had become the largest provincial evening paper in Britain. At the end of the Second World War, the MEN pulled off a national scoop by being the first paper to publish the news of the end of the war in Europe.
In 1963, the MEN acquired the failing Evening Chronicle, its main rival, producing a combined title with a daily circulation of around 480,000.
In 2010, the MEN was sold by the Guardian Media Group to Trinity Mirror and moved headquarters from Scott Place, Manchester, to the Trinity Mirror headquarters in Chadderton, Oldham.
Construction of the airport at Ringway began on 28 November 1935, and it opened on 25 June 1938. During the Second World War it was an important site in the production of military aircraft and in training parachutists. After the war, it reverted to a civilian airport and gradually expanded, with the second runway being added between 1997 and 2001. The airport is now owned by Manchester Airport Group plc.
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