Enjoying retirement
In The Red Rose County
Lovely Sunday lunch on our way - at The Church Inn Mobberley.... On the way to our house in Handbridge a Sold sign on our favourite property.... Reasonable terrace, wrong area. Great flat with a view of the walls and tower, but with tenant til year end... Good area of flats and houses heading up the canal from Telford's Warehouse.... Chester much quieter than York would be.... Flats in Steam Mill developments and...... Water Tower area, both near Waitrose... Tap room/pub in late medieval great hall on the first floor of the building....the Brewery Tap Lower Bridge Street. Chester Market..... Lovely walk in the Meadows on our last morning..... On the way back we called in Great Budworth.... The George and Dragon...
Three days in Manchester to research 'Secret Manchester'. Here The Soldiers' Gate at Victoria Station. Then to the Charter Street Ragged School. And the adjoining Angel Meadow burial ground... The newly creayed Sadler's Yard. The square was named after James Sadler, a balloonist, chemist and pastry chef who made the first manned balloon flight from Manchester in 1785. Tib Street for its terracotta birds... Street poetry by Lemn Sissay the official poet of the 2012 London Olympics, and Chancellor of the University of Manchester from 2015 until 2022. Tariff Street where spinners once spun and sewers sewed.... 79 Piccadilly with its strange Alpine figures... Above St Margaret's Chambers on Piccadilly.... The Police Museum... Amazing survivors - 4, 6 and 8 Bradley Street. 'Victory Over Blindness'..... The oldest warehouse in Manchester at Dale Street... Murray Mills.... Spring Gardens Post Office.... Some of the iconic buildings on King Street - difficult to photograph. De Quincey's birthplace... Central Library.... Roof and Shakespeare Window.... Midland Hotel... Where Rolls met Royce.... 'Adrift'...why? Manchester? Inside the old Free Trade Hall... Badge of Manchester Grammar.... The Tower of LIght (flues!)..... Engels. The Armitage Terracotta workshop, on Laystall Street, is a grade-II listed building which opened in 1879. Back of Avro. Built in 1825 and overlooking the Rochdale Canal, Grade II* Listed, Avro was once home to A.V. Roe & Co., Britain's first aeroplane manufacturer. Murray's Mills. Royal Mill. 'Cast No Shadow' perhaps an homage to the Oasis album of that name Street signs Northern Quarter...The signs, white on blue for the streets running East/West and blue on white for the streets running North/South, give the area its own identity. London Road Fire Station.... Papier mache Observatory. Alan Turing. Richmond tea rooms.... Hidden nuclear bunker and tunnels Emily Pankhurst. Peterloo floor. Back of Quakers Meeting House where some were crushed to death at Peterloo... Lincoln Square,,,In supporting Lincoln and the Union, Manchester working people selflessly put their principles ahead of their economic self-interest. Many dies of starvation. Lincoln wrote a letter on 19 January 1863 to thank the people of Manchester for their support. The 'Hidden Gem'... Dalton Arcade. St Anne's Church. The 'Centre' of Manchester. Egyptian columns Salford Central. Bloom Street....Model Lodging House and former Gas Board offices Black Horse. Former Chapel Street Police Station is located on a peninsula-shaped piece of land between Chapel Street and the Salford Approach to the former Exchange Station.
A walk in the Sculpture Park showed the Ribble as high as we have seen. We saw a caudal fin of what must have been a very large salmon indeed....the remains of a meal on the bank? A couple of days later a 5-0 thrashing of Huddersfield in the Cup. The man next to me had a large bet riding on the score being 6-0.......
The start....The Abbotsford..........nice traditional pub. Followed by the only ride open because of high wind...
I was on a picture taking exercise starting at the Gaskell House and then moving to the environmental statue of 'The Snowman'. A break in the Pot and Kettle whose ceiling I can never adequately capture..... Then to 'Mr Smith's Dream' - the hole in the wall. Some street art........... The lobby ceiling at Manchester's Central Library.... The statue 'Adrift' by The Midland Hotel.... The Peterloo Memorial....... and statues in the lobby at the Free Trade Hall(they used to be on the rear of the Hall when it was the home of the Halle........ Later in the month a concert at the Bridgewater Hall - The Messiah, tremendous. On other days walks by the swollen Ribble in Clitheroe......... and the Eller Beck.......
"A string quartet by Anthony Burgess will be performed for the first time on 1 December. The quartet has been discovered among uncatalogued papers in the archive of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. The music is part of a large collection of manuscripts donated by the late Liana Burgess. To mark the 30th anniversary of his death, the newly discovered string quartet will be performed for the first time at the Burgess Foundation in Manchester, on Friday 1 December at 7:30 PM. The concert programme includes ‘Man Who Has Come Through’, a song cycle based on four late poems by D.H. Lawrence, set by Burgess for tenor and chamber ensemble in 1985. The song cycle has been performed in Nottingham and Edinburgh, and this will be its Manchester premiere. Beethoven’s String Quartet in F major, opus no. 135 is also on the programme." We missed the Beethoven as we had to catch the last train.... ...........getting to Clitheroe about midnight (which is late enough).........
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