Editing Bernard Manning (section)

==Personal life==
Manning named his house in [[Alkrington]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pbc/review_areas/Greater_Manchester_Boroughs/images/Manchester_OM_FR.jpg |title=Greater Manchester Ward and Borough map |publisher=[[Boundary Commission for England]] |access-date=9 April 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070301235519/http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pbc/review_areas/Greater_Manchester_Boroughs/images/Manchester_OM_FR.jpg <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 1 March 2007}}</ref><ref name="GM Gazetteer">{{cite web |url=http://www.gmcro.co.uk/Guides/Gazeteer/gazza.htm |title=Greater Manchester Gazetteer |publisher=Greater Manchester County Record Office |access-date=20 June 2007|at=Places names – A|archive-date=18 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718144214/http://www.gmcro.co.uk/Guides/Gazeteer/gazza.htm}}</ref> "[[Shalom]]",<ref>{{cite web|last=Hodkinson|first=Mark|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/city-remain-a-gift-to-manning-vgq3scfpbx9|title=City remain a gift to Manning|work=The Times |location=London |date=20 March 1999 |access-date=18 June 2007|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name="Guardian2006"/> the [[Hebrew]] word for "[[peace]]". 

Manning was a lifelong [[Manchester City F.C |Manchester City]] supporter.<ref>{{cite news|last=Harper|first=Nick| url=http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,945827,00.html |title=Bernard Manning |work=The Guardian|location=London |date=16 May 2003 |access-date=18 June 2007 |publisher=Guardian News and Media}}</ref> He was the subject of ''[[This Is Your Life (UK TV series)|This Is Your Life]]'' on 27 November 1991.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eofftv.com/t/thi/this_is_your_life_1969_main.htm |title=This Is Your Life (1969–1993) |publisher=Eofftv.com |access-date=13 December 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120422082302/http://www.eofftv.com/t/thi/this_is_your_life_1969_main.htm |archive-date=22 April 2012 |df=dmy }}</ref> For many of his later years, he was a [[Teetotalism|teetotaller]] and a [[diabetic]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3123234.stm |title=Carry on drinking?|last=Bayman|first=Hannah|date=19 September 2003|access-date=19 June 2007|work=BBC News}}</ref>

Having been admitted two weeks earlier for a [[kidney]] complaint, Manning died in [[North Manchester General Hospital]] at 3:10 pm on 18 June 2007.<ref name="BBCdies" /> He was 76.<ref name="MEN2">{{cite news|url=http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1009476_bernard_manning_dead.html|publisher=M.E.N. Media|title=Bernard Manning dead|date=18 June 2007|access-date=18 June 2007|work=Manchester Evening News|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130420225748/http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1009476_bernard_manning_dead.html|archive-date=20 April 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref> He had written his own [[eulogy]], which appeared as an obituary in the ''[[Daily Mail]]'' two days later.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6766611.stm|title=Manning penned his own obituary|work=BBC News|date=19 June 2007|access-date=16 October 2019 }}</ref>