Manchester Town Hall, 10.00am - 5.30pm

The Town Hall will be bustling with over 80 exhibitors representing Manchester's diverse history and heritage including Manchester Museum, Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People, Manchester Sporting History, Friends of Kersal Moor, Manchester Modernist Society and Manchester Jewish Museum.

If you fancy a sit down, North West Film Archive will be screening films including a look at Little Italy's ice cream families (and you might just get to taste it), and a history of the Manchester Evening News and more.

Feeling a little peckish, then watch celebrity chef, Robert Owen Brown's heritage cookery demonstrations at 10.30, 12.30 and 2.15, and sample some of his recipes of yesterday.

There'll be lots of fun with Larkin' About and Manchester Library Theatre's history games taking place in and around the Town Hall from 11am - 4pm. You will have to find clues, solve mysteries, rescue birds and use your guile to create winning allegiances. The games are open to all ages and you simply need to sign up at the MHF Information Stand in the Town Hall on the day.

Make are you pre-book your tickets and don't miss the fascinating one-man football play I'll Be Bert about Bert Trautmann, the German prisoner of war and Manchester City goalkeeper at 12pm, or if music's more your thing, join DJ, author and broadcaster Dave Haslam for his panel discussion about Manchester's alternative music magazines at 4pm.

Learn new skills at workshops provided by the Catholic Family History Society and the Heritage Lottery Fund, and find out more what it was like being an evacuee from Guernsey to Manchester in World War Two.

The popular Town Hall Clock Tower tours return and get your tickets early as they will sell out!

Friends' Meeting House, 10.30am - 4.30pm

Across the road from the Town Hall, talks will be taking place every hour starting from 10.30am covering a vast scope of Manchester's history from motoring to Manchester Dogs, boxing and the American Civil War, to the World's first spaceman and Manchester's first woman Councillor.

All talks are free and whilst there may be tickets available on the day, booking is recommended through each individual talk page on the website.

Other things to do...

It's not simply the Town Hall and Friends' Meeting House that are busy. There are events across Greater Manchester so make sure you know everything that's happening on the Celebration Day.

Some of the highlights include an Open Day at the Museum of Transport  that you can get to on a heritage bus from outside the Town Hall. You can imagine you are in Time Team and join an archaeological dig. There are a host of walking tours across the city on the day, including a digital tour that takes you back in time 100 years. Have you forgotten the skill of mending, then join in a mending event linked to the From Swaddling Clothes exhibition, or spend time at a conference on technology and communication.

We hope you join us on Saturday 3 March to celebrate our unique and fascinating histories!