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Amazing it was only 60 years ago. My favourite Gagarin story was when he visited Manchester on a rainy day and they wanted to replace the open top car for a ca

Amazing it was only 60 years ago. My favourite Gagarin story was when he visited Manchester on a rainy day and they wanted to replace the open top car for a car with a roof. Gagarin said no that if the people waited in the rain then the least he could do was sit in an open top car

zabzonk 6y ago
> he visited Manchester on a rainy day Are there any other kinds of days there?
- dt123 6y ago
  Can confirm there is one day of sun a year source: spent three years at uni there
  - b3kart 6y ago
    A whole day of sun? That’s not the Manchester I remember.
    - Daho0n 6y ago
      Yes, it's the one day you are caugh inside doing important work.
  - rjsw 6y ago
    It is sunny right now.
- HatchedLake721 6y ago
  Live from Manchester, it's sunshine here today and same for the rest of the week! :)
  - LanceH 6y ago
    It's tricky because the sunshine is grey.
- midasuni 6y ago
  Only rains in Manchester when Londoners come to visit. Got to keep up appearances.
- sizzzzlerz 6y ago
  Old joke: Q: Are there any other kinds of days there? A: Don't know. I haven't been there long enough Q: How long is that A: All my life.
- fumblebee 6y ago
  I know a tautology when I see one.
astatine 6y ago
It is an amazing story. Stories like this break barriers of nations, languages and status and make humans out of these otherwise exalted individuals.
- lightgreen 6y ago
  There was no barrier between USSR and Britain nations, the barrier was between USSR government and democratic world.
yannis 6y ago
Most amazing he also came to Cyprus and I was a kid at the time. We all went to see him in his car parade. Posters with his picture were left pasted on walls for many years. Video here https://www.britishpathe.com/video/gagarin-in-cyprus https://www.britishpathe.com/video/gagarin-in-cyprus
rjsw 6y ago
My grandparents met him when he toured the Metrovick [1] site, grandfather was a senior engineer there. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan-Vickers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan-Vickers

zabzonk 6y ago

> he visited Manchester on a rainy day Are there any other kinds of days there?

dt123 6y ago
Can confirm there is one day of sun a year source: spent three years at uni there
- b3kart 6y ago
  A whole day of sun? That’s not the Manchester I remember.
  - Daho0n 6y ago
    Yes, it's the one day you are caugh inside doing important work.
- rjsw 6y ago
  It is sunny right now.
HatchedLake721 6y ago
Live from Manchester, it's sunshine here today and same for the rest of the week! :)
- LanceH 6y ago
  It's tricky because the sunshine is grey.
midasuni 6y ago
Only rains in Manchester when Londoners come to visit. Got to keep up appearances.
sizzzzlerz 6y ago
Old joke: Q: Are there any other kinds of days there? A: Don't know. I haven't been there long enough Q: How long is that A: All my life.
fumblebee 6y ago
I know a tautology when I see one.

astatine 6y ago

It is an amazing story. Stories like this break barriers of nations, languages and status and make humans out of these otherwise exalted individuals.

lightgreen 6y ago
There was no barrier between USSR and Britain nations, the barrier was between USSR government and democratic world.

yannis 6y ago

Most amazing he also came to Cyprus and I was a kid at the time. We all went to see him in his car parade. Posters with his picture were left pasted on walls for many years. Video here https://www.britishpathe.com/video/gagarin-in-cyprus https://www.britishpathe.com/video/gagarin-in-cyprus

rjsw 6y ago

My grandparents met him when he toured the Metrovick [1] site, grandfather was a senior engineer there. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan-Vickers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan-Vickers