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EarlyBird

May 23rd, 2005, 03:26 AM

I've not seen these pics on SSC before so I thought I'd share them. I posted them on the " Battle of Britain: Birmingham vs Glasgow vs Leeds vs Liverpool vs Manchester (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=4212350#post4212350)" thread. Anyway, here they are...

EarlyBird

May 23rd, 2005, 03:27 AM

Alan Turing Memorial:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/020905-0906-12_std.jpg

Exchange Square Windmills:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/020905-0951-23_std.jpg

I know they say cycling is green transport but...
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/020905-0953-51_std.jpg

Cathedral Gardens:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/020905-1026-21_std.jpg

Tram coming out of Victoria (I hope the new trams we get are a different design!):
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/020905-1030-36_std.jpg

Inside The Printworks:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/hardrock-man4_std.jpg

Midland Hotel:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/021006-1027-45_std.jpg

Liverpool Road Station (the world's first passenger railway station):
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/021006-0853-40_std.jpg

The Opera House:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/021006-0928-17_std.jpg

Albert Memorial:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/030914-1432-24_std.jpg

"Struggle for Peace and Freedom", St Peter's Square:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/030418-0901-49_std.jpg

"Trafford Park" sign for Europe's largest industrial park:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/030511-1047-18_std.jpg

Trafford Park again:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/030511-1036-19_std.jpg

Hulme Arch:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/030511-1106-51_std.jpg

Pub on Great Bridgewater Street:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/030914-1400-14_std.jpg

St Johns Garden:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/030914-1510-44_std.jpg

Deansgate/Great Bridgewater Street contrast:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/030914-1536-44_std.jpg

Police Street/King Street:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/040228-1055-30_std.jpg

Former Bank of England:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/040228-1102-44_std.jpg

Is this the USA? Starbucks and a hotdog stand! :D
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/040228-1115-20_std.jpg

Mosaic at Affleck's Palace:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/040228-1127-16_std.jpg

The Quays:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/salford-quays1_std.jpg

Palace Hotel:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/040909-1226-08_std.jpg

Oxford Street:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/040909-1233-36_std.jpg

"Does my bum look big in this?":
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/040415-1218-38_std.jpg

Great Northern Complex:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/040415-1239-14_std.jpg

A "Cow Parade" cow:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/040909-1250-22_std.jpg

The walkway under the Arndale food court:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/040415-1314-34_std.jpg

Spring Gardens:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/040415-1342-32_std.jpg

Pagoda in Chinatown:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/040415-1358-44_std.jpg

Faulkner Street (in Chinatown):
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/040415-1400-12_std.jpg

Further down Faulkner Street:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/040415-1400-32_std.jpg

The lovely Canal Street:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/040415-1407-34_std.jpg

BT Building, London Road:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/040905-1346-28_std.jpg

London Road/Whitworth Street/Fairfield Street:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/040905-1349-38_std.jpg

Coming out of Piccadilly Station:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/040905-1410-34_std.jpg

111 Piccadilly... eww!:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/040905-1411-58_std.jpg

Manchester Cathedral:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/040909-1333-56_std.jpg

"Arena Point", the MEN Arena admin building:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/040909-1405-56_std.jpg

MEN Arena:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/040909-1409-50_std.jpg

G-Mex:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B30FDF464-DBEC-4F13-8C04-4D8325A4DC86%7D/A972F6.jpg

Albert Square:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BBE7AA046-75EC-4E25-8F39-60BFD5D367DD%7D/ACT281.jpg

Reebok Stadium:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BFD3E4DA9-E94E-4B8F-8CA5-E2E8EBBA69DF%7D/AH3A7C.jpg

Central Library:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B9B9865D6-394D-4945-86A7-A59CD80B137C%7D/A972F5.jpg

Lowry Gallery:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B4FF8BADE-4F12-4647-8AFF-3E6FFE99155B%7D/AH47FD.jpg

YMCA Castlefield:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BA9E0C660-D815-4BF5-A5B0-ECB2D90A2EAC%7D/AH3A76.jpg

Peter Street:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B5276C406-9C1E-4685-A3C7-C45F675F0573%7D/A972F2.jpg

And again:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BF1C2095F-C066-4EC2-BD1C-72166F192FE2%7D/A972F1.jpg

Ordsall Hall Museum:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B29BCE1C2-D77B-4BAF-90B8-88A887C0746F%7D/AH3A1D.jpg

Tram at the docks:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B81841B92-559C-4BD9-A3C3-B35F69BC4887%7D/A94E2B.jpg

Whitworth Gallery:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B8080DA90-6DD8-4C7C-857B-CD96318F0C05%7D/AH3A13.jpg

Kendalls, Deansgate:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BCBF3F7A3-4F11-45E5-83A6-A12F5DC92042%7D/A0NF9E.jpg

Sunset at the Lowry:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BA7EB7B7E-1907-4FAA-95D1-EF2213127C76%7D/A6D168.jpg

A dragon:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BE03D25FC-BA50-4D3E-B5E3-BFECCF0B0FB0%7D/AE61D6.jpg

God knows why I'm posting this!
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B0B6EE1DC-4DA5-49CA-97D6-02C76A224BB9%7D/AE61D4.jpg

Lyme Park:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BE50E1390-7284-4056-AE37-E5406200E9E9%7D/AYM631.jpg

Lowry Hotel (posted a few pics of it, but this is too good to ignore):
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B51992F57-15BC-4B1B-A00B-80A0A44077EB%7D/AE61DB.jpg

Around Shude Hill:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B2515693E-B707-41EE-A896-246F94702D11%7D/AE61B3.jpg

Urbis again:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B3FF89B1B-CBAE-4575-9389-932F0E4827CF%7D/A0P065.jpg

EarlyBird

May 23rd, 2005, 03:27 AM

Statue at SportCity:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BF596AC53-6DD8-4976-ACA6-01520FD91E80%7D/A0P078.jpg

from another angle:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B8CC80D00-C000-4165-8287-0DBFB41AC452%7D/A0P076.jpg

St Chad's Church:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BA0FE3DBC-0013-4F56-A722-015DA415FF3C%7D/APE596.jpg

Bredbury Hall (formerly Bradburie Hall):
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B3122A984-D856-4960-91FA-310989515462%7D/A4GRB4.jpg

Ralli Quays:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B09304630-2261-4DCF-9F40-92F68437751A%7D/AM5B9B.jpg

St Peter's Church:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B4832C59D-BF04-4605-9F6D-1E8C119018CB%7D/A7P531.jpg

Q, shortest named pub in the world:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BD7B48BD8-80D5-4638-AA8E-F5A5E17BC53B%7D/AM5BA7.jpg

Trinity Bridge House (I work from this office a week every month):
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B7BAE6D07-36C6-4D10-8506-792AA4551660%7D/AM5B8A.jpg

Another view of the area:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BEB670219-7D22-4967-8F60-F8C2067FCFFA%7D/AM5B57.jpg

The spot where Vimto was first mixed:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BA7D00A3D-D01A-498A-B149-F36C75F6F275%7D/AKEBFD.jpg

Again:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B9E3EAD84-A0A5-465A-99F8-A725179211D5%7D/AKEBFB.jpg

Gay village:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B6E045B79-069C-43CB-8698-0ED09B822F73%7D/AC199A.jpg

Trafford Park Hotel:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B61E89640-F649-491F-A693-27DC87809E02%7D/AKEC33.jpg

Piccadilly Station (and legs):
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B04C14513-0892-41BB-AE3B-51D768F93CC0%7D/A7F840.jpg

Trafford Park from another side:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B0480556A-17E7-4FE5-9DCC-DF30589255E8%7D/AKEC21.jpg

Quay West:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B78E628C3-9877-46B7-96BD-7A6DE81AAD45%7D/AKEC28.jpg

Anchorage Building at Erie Basin:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B7F82011C-8AEC-41AF-9B34-E1392DEECCA8%7D/AK04DB.jpg

Victoria Building:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BC0BF3980-AF35-49B3-8F7E-99C089C40EF2%7D/AK04D0.jpg

England at the City of Manchester Stadium:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B78928956-A40D-4446-8A20-44DC1A2158A6%7D/AXF6A9.jpg

Cutie, big nose and fat bird:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B84E3CC5B-C845-45D2-878A-3ACFC1D0EC4D%7D/A1WX86.jpg

Trafford Centre again:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BFD26EA9B-48BA-4A26-9D39-913CAEEC2D52%7D/A0AD69.jpg

Trafford Centre again:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B5F1895CC-FEA9-415C-86B1-8D22C8397D6A%7D/A0AD5D.jpg

Digital World Centre:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B77DA1064-945D-4086-B2FC-648B42C2C66F%7D/A3REA9.jpg

Iron House:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BC7ED1B64-B233-4DFA-AF15-657829B77F26%7D/A1K382.jpg

New Century House (CIS's little brother):
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BFEB7EBD8-FB17-40D2-9B8D-09BF5FC397F6%7D/A0N38F.jpg

Kellogg's UK headquarters:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B3D3E5553-A899-4C70-B464-991DFA3EAFD4%7D/AX2A54.jpg

St Ann's Square:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BCF605B1C-8FFE-45FE-B1DD-038158AEC6F6%7D/AXE18F.jpg

Concorde viewing park:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BF9CF1609-082F-4382-BE2A-22EE26A0CAA4%7D/ADH2B4.jpg

Jodrell Bank (part of the University of Manchester):
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B32DA559B-6A54-4691-9D30-E17FCF70D3D2%7D/AJ2942.jpg

G-Mex from another angle:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B77E8703C-3090-497D-A4FF-CEFBB09B7554%7D/A205CF.jpg

Walking in the snow:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B9DC3AF80-AEB2-4FCB-A93F-8901DDC77841%7D/A050E0.jpg

B of the Bang:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B7E2D2B09-7EEB-4B76-B7EB-3DFE8D90C985%7D/A1GT84.jpg

Greaves Street:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BAEFB840D-F595-4776-9167-F4FFB64BE23C%7D/AY01C7.jpg

The Gallery Building:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B5740259C-4DA8-47F3-9A62-D0468F7D161B%7D/AY01C4.jpg

Church Lane:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BA889EBA1-193E-4C83-B895-9DF87306C8B9%7D/AY01AE.jpg

Anchor & Mitre Hotel:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B209F7735-791B-4C31-BE2B-A3B2981575A9%7D/AHFAE0.jpg

Piccadilly Gardens (rainbow, but where's the gold?):
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B640D0001-E58E-409D-AAA0-34E7F8C5375B%7D/A38B6D.jpg

Mr Thomas' Chop House:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BD45958C9-AC29-448C-863D-AA03A0343596%7D/ACX95A.jpg

St Ann's Church:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BFA624371-C112-4662-8D33-EA7757DAE870%7D/A7P58B.jpg

Hospitals, Oxford Road:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B4D31A133-B20C-4AAB-B1AD-5DEED904FEE5%7D/APHE1A.jpg

Albert Square:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BD1841DA9-75FC-4807-B5AD-6EAF6CC4AA00%7D/ACX977.jpg

Yorkshire Railways Clock, Victoriaa Station:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B9EA6974E-FF29-4B8F-A300-9C1F513413D0%7D/AHFAD5.jpg

Heaton Hall:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BD9A65533-881F-44D2-BC19-CC14669B4F00%7D/AK0334.jpg

Former congregational chapel in Castlefield:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BC0B22711-FC06-465A-9096-125745384F50%7D/ACE303.jpg

St Mary's Church:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BA44B75EB-9776-476B-B074-BDB6B95E50BC%7D/AM0F9F.jpg

St Ann's Square:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B77827187-3136-43F1-88AF-6C1D4239844B%7D/AGYF20.jpg

Manchester Art Gallery:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B8EF058C0-B32E-4440-BAAD-842BE7A39280%7D/A7P611.jpg

Cafe Muse, Manchester Museum, University of Manchester:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BB6EFD458-6B3A-43CC-843C-BCC7F8831750%7D/A6RA01.jpg

A mad cow!
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B14C35C92-3A87-42F0-AD23-47FA98292B79%7D/A6X63D.jpg

St Marys Gate/Market Street:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B775EC632-7B56-4283-A805-8C20981AB50F%7D/AHFACF.jpg

Chetham's School of Music:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BE13D3728-4786-41A6-82FE-A1DED74C83F5%7D/AHFADC.jpg

Salford Library:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B73EBE712-668C-47D8-AC21-2E7DF4ECE2A0%7D/A2H0C1.jpg

Lime Grove (students in the sun):
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B1C65B5FA-1BB7-4D49-B2DB-8859EFD71B5A%7D/A5JN60.jpg

Manchester Museum:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B23B1B610-9962-4D71-A360-B57EFE584C6C%7D/A5JNDD.jpg

Walkway at Manchester Airport:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B1B9850BF-A710-47BC-8EF1-BBF9ED943111%7D/A41G64.jpg

Off St Ann's Square:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B2EE20016-DB64-40EA-B6F9-020655364EED%7D/A1YR6B.jpg

Tib Lane:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BDAC883ED-5FB2-46A9-8753-C620B0E93E63%7D/A1DK68.jpg

Granby Row:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B0401B63C-2EF6-4309-ADF5-625E8EAA7C9F%7D/AKP0C1.jpg

Manchester Town Hall arches:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B352EBF22-EA24-436A-83A5-4BFC020E1559%7D/AAKB81.jpg

Faculty of Arts:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BF1BE4A99-A2EA-42FE-B94D-064B2A2B1A89%7D/A6R984.jpg

Quadrangle off Oxford Road:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BAB218473-3D95-4A5C-A4BA-3B9BE8358EC4%7D/A6R978.jpg

South Campus:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B9F464A5F-29A3-44C7-8697-F79180B1A924%7D/A6RA6C.jpg

Graduation day:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B9648D1A3-2B6B-4F7D-A5AF-C54BE93CF4A4%7D/A6R9FC.jpg

Another part of Castlefield:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B00F2E127-AA10-4FE1-A42B-BC761C521CA7%7D/AXD20A.jpg

Deansgate:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BB1369936-73BF-46A6-9B5D-CDACCC3D71F7%7D/AX3537.jpg

One Spinningfields:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BB46D8767-6B43-484E-82EF-FE21D4ACF79E%7D/AX0F88.jpg

Albert Square at christmas:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BEAB6EDC3-155C-43D6-9667-D34690424438%7D/ATBA27.jpg

Hanover Building:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BD244EF15-1631-4228-B740-C15904D8D1F1%7D/AN5B24.jpg

Affleck's Palace:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BF1B1F910-96BD-4FD0-A344-6B45B016F32F%7D/AM687A.jpg

Lowry Centre:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BD7C50EAC-B90B-4569-A43A-6A0C25E5908C%7D/A050D0.jpg

One Spinningfields again:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BBCD6D2F5-9D83-4329-BA41-35862DEF9BBB%7D/A4XDA4.jpg

Sackville Street:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BB1920A9C-277F-4454-89DE-310E4A65BB90%7D/A5GY3C.jpg

More of those things:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BB4367AF4-E556-401D-B8C8-F532C3381781%7D/A34R43.jpg

University campus:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B5C5144EB-8204-49F8-852A-D9FF4812AB9C%7D/AWJDBC.jpg

Sackville Street/Granby Row:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B64C7CE7E-6DDA-4EBB-83C0-A8249E7BD947%7D/AKP1B0.jpg

Victoria Baths:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BCEF3D4C8-3BC6-48AA-947A-9E0CB259A5C5%7D/ADXA9A.jpg

Inside Piccadilly train station:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B26860321-B7F7-4D60-B26C-A98DB6E5706C%7D/ABTC59.jpg

Hunt's Bank:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BA67AADBE-2178-4AA2-BD85-087F40E84953%7D/ABTD09.jpg

EarlyBird

May 23rd, 2005, 03:28 AM

Piccadilly Gardens:
http://www.digital-manchester.com/nights/1.jpg

Approach to Victoria Station:
http://www.digital-manchester.com/nights/11.jpg

Shambles as the sun goes down:
http://www.digital-manchester.com/nights/12.jpg

Kendals:
http://www.digital-manchester.com/nights/13.jpg

Lowry Bridge:
http://www.digital-manchester.com/nights/14.jpg

Lowry Gallery:
http://www.digital-manchester.com/nights/15.jpg

Boddingtons:
http://www.digital-manchester.com/nights/16.jpg

Castlefield:
http://www.digital-manchester.com/nights/17.jpg

Urbis/Printworks:
http://www.digital-manchester.com/nights/2.jpg

Corporation Street/CIS Tower:
http://www.digital-manchester.com/nights/20.jpg

Shambles/Harvey Nichols:
http://www.digital-manchester.com/nights/21.jpg

Moon over the ship canal:
http://www.digital-manchester.com/nights/22.jpg

Imperial War Museum North:
http://www.digital-manchester.com/nights/23.jpg

Oxford Road Station:
http://www.digital-manchester.com/nights/27.jpg

More ship canal:
http://www.digital-manchester.com/nights/3.jpg

rolybling

May 23rd, 2005, 11:46 AM

some great pics there EB, i'll have to check out that battle of britain thread now

oscar9

May 23rd, 2005, 06:44 PM

Some stunning photos there, love visiting Manchester city centre, the archetecture is so eclectic.

andyains

May 23rd, 2005, 11:38 PM

Thank fuck for broadband ;)

ForeverSalfordRed

May 24th, 2005, 05:15 PM