Your city from high observation points (no aerial pics please!)

[cardiff]

Originally Posted by JamesWales

Cardiff Bay>North Eastern suburbs>Valleys

Great pic, you can make out quite alot of the histrical building in the bay as well.

[VoldemortBlack]

During the construction of the CIS;

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[aek-94]

Reminds me of the famous 'Lunch atop a Skyscraper' photo, taken during the construction of the G.E. Building in New York.

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[VoldemortBlack]

I think that's the look they were going for Aek. Baffles me how there's no harnes or anything, we take health and safety for granted these days but looking back it was so dangerous!

[Aaronj09]

That's quite scary actually - makes me nervous just looking at it

[wiggleyleeds]

makes me scared just looking too haha, my legs go jelly

[Mr. B]

I love that CIS construction pic!!!

Here's a similar one of the Red Road flats workers.

[MancKnight]

Originally Posted by VoldemortBlack

During the construction of the CIS;

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One of the best photos of Manchester/the UK I have ever seen. Thanks for posting

I wish we kept those chimneys though, imagine the skyline with them + all the new stuff we have now.

[VoldemortBlack]

It would certainly be very unique

[tommygunn]

Originally Posted by VoldemortBlack

During the construction of the CIS;

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How could you relax and read the paper madness.

[Sandblast]

That pic of the CIS chaps is incredible! Where did this come from? Beautiful shot. (Would there really be a girder that big at the top of a modest [on a World scale] UK building?)

Still ... a great picture, even if it is a fake!

[VoldemortBlack]

I'm aware it was probably staged to replicate the Chrysler Building photo that Aek mentionned, but I'm afraid I don't know whether or not it's fake or not. It's certainly in the right position if that's Victoria station in the background.

It's from Flickr

[aek-94]

Originally Posted by VoldemortBlack

I'm aware it was probably staged to replicate the Chrysler Building photo that Aek mentionned, but I'm afraid I don't know whether or not it's fake or not. It's certainly in the right position if that's Victoria station in the background.

It's from Flickr

It was the G.E. Building at the Rockefeller Centre not the Chrysler

And I only about this picture because when you go to the building's observation deck called the 'Top of the Rock', you can recreate the photo by sitting on a girder with Midtown Manhattan behind and below you (it's fake though as it's just a green screen). But still it's really cool!

[VoldemortBlack]

Originally Posted by aek-94

It was the G.E. Building at the Rockefeller Centre not the Chrysler

And I only about this picture because when you go to the building's observation deck called the 'Top of the Rock', you can recreate the photo by sitting on a girder with Midtown Manhattan behind and below you (it's fake though as it's just a green screen). But still it's really cool!

Oh, not sure where I got Chrysler from. I've been to the Top of the Rock, it's excellent

[aek-94]

Originally Posted by VoldemortBlack

Oh, not sure where I got Chrysler from. I've been to the Top of the Rock, it's excellent

I agree, I prefer it to the Empire State Building's observation deck personally. Because in the Empire State Building, there's metal bars blocking your view, whereas at the Top of the Rock there's just glass panels, so you get a much better view in my opinion (that's if it's not changed since 2007).

Sorry if I've just changed the topic of the conversation by the way!

[yoshef]

That old picture of CIS in Manchester under construction is tops!




The Runcorn Bridge and Jodrell Bank, from Liverpool Cathedral...

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Copyright Stephen Sweeny

[VoldemortBlack]

Originally Posted by aek-94

I agree, I prefer it to the Empire State Building's observation deck personally. Because in the Empire State Building, there's metal bars blocking your view, whereas at the Top of the Rock there's just glass panels, so you get a much better view in my opinion (that's if it's not changed since 2007).

Sorry if I've just changed the topic of the conversation by the way!

When we went in 2008 we were right on top of the roof!! Bit windy, but great views of course!

[morestoreysplease]

Both those Mcr and Glasgow pics are brilliant!! I guess the CIS one would have been late 50s and the Glasgow one late 60s? Wish we had a Brum equivalent.

[Aaronj09]

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Albion Place by GeoVdub, on Flickr

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Albion Place by GeoVdub, on Flickr

[AnIco]

Originally Posted by MancKnight

One of the best photos of Manchester/the UK I have ever seen. Thanks for posting

I wish we kept those chimneys though, imagine the skyline with them + all the new stuff we have now.

You can see the Boddingtons Brewery chimney on the right, which was sadly demolished last year. I always liked the corbelled and hexagonal ornate entablature on the cap, which gave it an instantly recognisable silhouette.