The Two Towers

One of the two dilapidated towers in the cavernous area below Manchester's old Central Station. Now known as Manchester Central, a huge conference and exhibition hall some may know as Gmex.

These towers are thought to have pumped water up from and down to the ill fated 'Manchester and Salford Junction Canal' a mostly underground waterway that used to run far below Manchester's streets, from the Rochdale Canal next to the Rain bar on Gt Bridgewater Street, to the River Irwell where it emerged at the old lock next to the Victoria and Albert Hotel on Water St.

The atmosphere down here is muddy, ice cold, very damp and pitch black, with not a single ray of natural light finding its way down from the street approximately 30-40ft above ( I used a bright led torch and a long exposure on a tripod to illuminate the brickwork, a technique known as 'painting with light' to make this shot.

The depth of water approximately 1 to 1.5M deep although now long gone, is still evident by the marks on the walls.

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