We have a lot of older buildings, but cities such as Leeds and Liverpool are great too.
Manchester was bombed quite heavily in the second world war, so lots of good buildings were lost.
However, a monstrous shopping arcade [[ mall) was built in the 70s and that destroyed a lot of great buildings....the outer building looked like the biggest toilet wall in the world.
Ironically , the IRA bombing did us a favour, and the part of Manchester is a lot better now.