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Old January 12th, 2008, 06:51 AM   #1
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Old January 12th, 2008, 06:11 PM   #2
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Old January 12th, 2008, 11:09 PM   #3
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Old January 12th, 2008, 11:40 PM   #4
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Urbis

Isn't the Urbis a magnificent building! A real architectural success for modern Manchester.

I remember sitting in a car on the very land where it now stands, in a non descript bit of flattened (pot-holed) land that was a public car park. Eating cereal from a polystyrene cup with my parents at 8 a.m waiting for Marks & Sparks to open, my Mum's idea being that we would get some sort of strategic advantage having cereal when we arrived rather than before we set off, by missing traffic or something- Was that just me then haha!

The Urbis!
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Old January 14th, 2008, 12:59 PM   #5
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Brilliant pics!

Nuts how Liverpool & Manchester look now

imagine placing them together on a pic, look amazing!
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Old January 14th, 2008, 04:36 PM   #6
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Clayton Vale/Philips Park

I went for a (admittedly pointless) walk earlier today down Clayton Vale, heading into Philips Park and took a few snaps. Please excuse the general incompetence of the photography; these were very-much a first attempt. It's amazing how much work is being carried out down this area of the medlock valley; new drainage, pathways, furniture, forest management, etc. I particularly like the way they've turned the River Medlock into a what looks like a water slide in Philips Park by creating a brick-lined chute for it to flow down. It's quite eerie watching this fast-flowing river drift by in virtual silence (unfortunately the batteries in the camera died before I could get a shot). I'm taking an inflatable rubber ring next time...

River Medlock:


Flats in Newton Heath overlooking the Vale:


River Medlock again:


...and a bit of proper 'grit': the fencing that's supposed to stop you getting on top of the railway arches as they go over Bank Street and carry on behind the Velodrome (where they abruptly end before reaching Ashton new Road):


Taken from Philips Park looking out towards the CIS:


From Philips Park, a view of the B of the Bang nestled between the velodrome and the new flats opposite:


Playground in Philips Park with City Tower in the distance:


Another shot of Philips Park with town in the background:


And thus concludes my Clayton odyssey!
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Old January 15th, 2008, 04:26 PM   #7
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Old January 18th, 2008, 08:27 PM   #8
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your pics have gone! the were nice!

edit: oh they are back again lol

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Old January 18th, 2008, 08:26 PM   #9
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Old January 20th, 2008, 09:15 PM   #10
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Old January 26th, 2008, 06:01 PM   #11
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Some pics taken today 26/01/2008

Manchester Law Library, Kennedy Street:


Corner of Mosely Street and Princess Street:


Langley House, Dale Street:


Hudson Buildings, Great Ancoats Street:


Express Building, Great Ancoats Street (sorry it's a little skewed):
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Old January 29th, 2008, 05:05 AM   #12
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Hudson Buildings, Great Ancoats Street:

Thats an interesting building, any in fo on it, looks renovated and a new roof extension.
Big windows, was it a furniture sales shop ?
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Old February 2nd, 2008, 10:40 PM   #13
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Thats an interesting building, any in fo on it, looks renovated and a new roof extension.
Big windows, was it a furniture sales shop ?
The ancoats urban village company (now part of new east manchester)
have a interactive 3d virtual model of the whole site.
Complete with details of most buildings.

www.auvc.co.uk

here is a screen shot



The whole block is great, with all its quirky buildings.
My personal favourite has to be the Derros Building next door. One of the best refurb jobs in the city imo. (corner blding with B&W detailing on roof)

Hudsons Building
1924 – 4 storey three bay, with vertical columns and ornamented pediment – Yellow faience with large cracks. Refurbished to provide ground floor commercial with residential above.

53 Ancoats Street
1865 – Ornate brick façade to Great Ancoats Street and Blossom Street. Paired windows three bays to Ancoats Street and Blossom Street. Originally a Japanning works. Has been a blind making works and offices of the Amalgamated Association of Cotton Spinners. Premises now vacant.

Derros Building
1899 – 4 storey red industrial brick with top floor in Cheshire black and white, end gable and bow window to Ancoats Street and strong yellow banding. Chamfered corner entrance. Built as a Methodist women’s night shelter and coffee tavern. Also 1899 – 1903 was a maternity hospital. Later used as a club by Express Printers.Recently refurbished to create ground floor commercial and residential above.

Doctors Building
1888 - Three storey attractive red brick Art Noveau type building. 2 pairs of tall thin windows on the second floor, generous bow window on the first floor, 4 openings ground floor (boarded up). 1888 occupied by a druggist and by 1911 by Walk Williams – a surgeon. 1930s a lodging house and subsequently as a dwelling house. Since 1987 residential in connection with Ben’s Ice Creams.

Great Ancoats Street Sub Station
1927 – Three pairs of round headed windows on 1st floor, brick panels and entrance on ground floor. Built to convert high voltage current to low voltage for the tram network.Planning consent granted for mixed use conversion, commercial and residential.
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Old January 26th, 2008, 10:46 PM   #14
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I have a cousin who was born in that prison in 1940. I'd never seen it before. Thanks for posting it.
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Old January 26th, 2008, 10:51 PM   #15
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I have a cousin who was born in that prison in 1940. I'd never seen it before. Thanks for posting it.
wow. it looked a fair bit different then, think the inmates burnt the place down in 1990ish and most of it was rebuilt and renamed HMP prison manchester instead of strangeways prison or something like that.
there's a bit more about the tower here - http://www.skyscrapernews.com/buildings.php?id=2845
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It is one of the few remaining parts of the original building, much of which was destroyed during the infamous Strangeways prison riots in April 1990.
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Old January 26th, 2008, 11:13 PM   #16
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wow. it looked a fair bit different then, think the inmates burnt the place down in 1990ish and most of it was rebuilt and renamed HMP prison manchester instead of strangeways prison.
Thanks Comdot.
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Old January 26th, 2008, 06:23 PM   #17
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Old January 26th, 2008, 07:21 PM   #18
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Old January 26th, 2008, 10:29 PM   #19
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i hope they finish city tower by summer, can't get good pics really in winter
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Old January 27th, 2008, 05:45 AM   #20
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just something from spring 07 that i recently learned to stitch together thanks to gothic
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