Venues

This is the venue index as the programme kept it: every ground, pool, track and climbing wall the city was prepared to put in front of a visiting federation, in one list rather than split by sport.

Read as an archive it is more useful than a current directory would be, because it records which facilities Manchester counted as front-rank at the time — a cluster of purpose-built arenas on one side of the city, a ring of football and rugby grounds around it, and a long tail of commercial activity centres named in the same breath as the national ones. Each entry opens a record with the address and the access notes as they were published, which is why some of them read like a sales brochure. What the desk writes now about how these places behave on a crowd day is in Matchday.