Photo Credit: Baltic Market Food halls started in the 1800s, when pushcarts crowded city streets, making them difficult for vendors to navigate. Across Europe, this evolved into indoor marketplaces where vendors sold everything from meals to spices and produce. Though these food halls faded away for a long time, the advent of food trucks reignited ...

Photo Credit: Ragne Kabanova / Shutterstock When Richard Arkwright built the world’s first steam-powered mill in Manchester in 1781, it opened the doors for the city to become the globe’s greatest cloth manufacturing centre. A hundred years later, people had taken to calling the industrial capital of the north-west Cottonopolis. Manchester may no longer be ...