This is my City. I’ve been around its streets and clubs and pubs since I escaped the factory floor, with a job at one of Manchester’s best ever clothes shops.
I know its nooks and crannies. Its diamonds and its flaws. And so will you.
This is a small installment of what will hopefully be both a stunning and comprehensive visual guide to a great city.
Welcome to my Manchester.
Victoria Square and Anita Street
Manchester in the Christmas Snow
The Peveril of the Peak and Nancy’s washing.
John Rylands Library in the City of Light
The Britons Protection.
Manchester Central Library and Library Walk, Illuminati 2
Manchester Central Library and the glass passageway over Library Walk. Illuminati 3
Hotel Gotham Manchester
The Britons Protection on Great Bridgewater Street, Manchester
The Britons Protection pub
Gotham Hotel Manchester
Hacienda Manchester.
Manchester’s got The Hots. Hotspur Press
The John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester
Manchester Metropolitan University MMU 1
The Northern Quarter
People’s History Museum, Manchester.
Gotham Hotel and a slice of Manchester architecture.
Castlefield Yellow.
Percy Brothers Hotspur House.
A full house at the Royal Exchange Theatre, which straddles St Ann’s Square and Cross street.
The Peveril of the Peak, Manchester
Glorious light on Manchester Cathedral and the Arndale Centre.
Manchester Central Library, newly refurbished.
Manchester as Art.
Peveril of the Peak pub, one of Manchester’s most beautiful landmarks.
Rylands Library Deansgate. Two lamps guard against impending darkness, outside the John Rylands Library Deansgate.
The Salutation in Manchester
Percy Brothers Hotspur Press
Cornerhouse and Cinema
Bridgewater Hall Manchester.
Castlefield Manchester, after a heavy Winter’s snowfall.
The Cornerhouse.
The Salutation and Manchester School of Art
The Castle pub on Oldham Street
Cornerhouse Cinema Manchester
Castlefield. Bridgewater Canal. Autumn moves in.
‘M’off mi ‘Ead’. Manchester Hacienda back in the day.
The Oxnoble, Beetham Tower and Liverpool Rd.
Percy Brothers and Hotspur Press
Sunset over a silhouette of the Imperial War Museum North and The Lowry,
Manchester sunset. Imperial War Museum North and The Lowry.
Manchester Cathedral and the glass of Urbis rising as if from its core.
The Oxnoble Manchester
Glass dome of the Royal Exchange Theatre.
Dunlop Factory, Macintosh Village, Manchester.
Red sunset over Castlefield.
Museum of Science and Industry
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester.
The Palace Hotel and Oxford Street, and one of Europe’s busiest bus routes.
Old Trafford Red Sea 2
Manchester Central Library metro station.
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, home of the Halle Orchestra
Church of The Holy Name Manchester.
Manchester. Palace Hotel, Oxford Street and Oxford Road train Station.
(3749) Manchester City Etihad Stadium on first Champions League match night.
Bridgewater Canal at Castlefield. But something is different about this picture….
Manchester. Peveril of the Peak pub.
Abel Heywood in the Northern Quarter
Museum of Science and Industry and Beetham Tower. Winter snow in Manchester.
George Leigh Street
A frozen Bridgewater Canal at Castlefield, Manchester.
Bricks and Metal of times past, in Manchester’s Castlefield.
Manchester Central Library, framed by the stonework of Manchester Town Hall
The Oxnoble Manchester
Manchester Central Library and Town Hall buildings