Poetic RMS OF THE CITY OF MANCHESTEI legends might seem out of place in a great commercial city ‚Äî the spinning-jenny and the steam- engine have been long known to be inimical to nymphs and fairies ‚Äî but Man chester, for all that, existed when there were giants in the land, and has its place in the life of a hero no less doughty than Sir Launcelot of the Lake.
That there was a Roman camp on Castlefield, with- in the area of the city, there is no doubt ; that it occupied the site of an earlier British settlement historians have asserted; that it may claim to have been inhabited for nearly eighteen hundred years cannot be disputed ; but this is not all.  Poetic RMS OF THE CITY OF MANCHESTEI legends might seem out of place in a great commercial city ‚Äî the spinning-jenny and the steam- engine have been long known to be inimical to nymphs and fairies ‚Äî but Man chester, for all that, existed when there were giants in the land, and has its place in the life of a hero no less doughty than Sir Launcelot of the Lake.  To quote from a ballad