Enjoying retirement
In The Red Rose County
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.
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