A Cumbrian in Manchester

We visited the Christmas markets in Manchester and found a famous Cumbrian. John Dalton from Cockermouth moved to Manchester in the early 1790s. He is most famous for giving us the theory of atoms in chemical elements that we still use today. But I like it that he was one of the first people to measure the heights of the Lakeland fells using a barometer. He must have been a very early fell walker.