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St. Luke church, Cheetham Hill Road, Manchester. Architecture
Nellie Vin ©Photography
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St Luke, Cheetham Hill Road, Cheetham, Manchester
The foundation stone was lain Wednesday June 29Th 1836 and the church was consecrated on Sunday 6Th October 1839.
The cost of £23,000 to build the church was raised locally and the site of the church was given by the Earl of Derby.
It was regarded as one of the finest examples of church architecture in Manchester.
It had 1,250 seats, 500 of which were free from pew rents.
The organ was consecrated by the fingers of Mendelssohn, who played it in 1847, the year of his death when he visited Manchester to give a performance of his 'Elijah'.
St. Luke's attracted a fashionable congregation, but towards the end of the 19Th century its decline commenced as people moved further from the city centre.
In 1877 St. Luke's was the wealthiest of Manchester's churches.
Today, all that remains of the church is a crumbling tower, the remainder having been demolished during the late 1980's.
My city is changing at an alarming rate. Deansgate train station bridge with the new deansgate development behind.
On a photography course doing architecture in Manchester.
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The Football League was formally created and named in Manchester at the Royal Hotel. Although the Royal Hotel is long gone, the site is marked with a commemorative red plaque on The Royal Buildings in Market Street.
Manchester, Salford and Media City 130523 #3
Media City UK is an area around Salford Quays and, as the name suggests, is home to companies such as the BBC and ITV offices and studios. I had much better luck here and I’m posting my photos of my tour both today and tomorrow. How wonderful that the area has its routes named as colours. For my first group, I did a shortish circular walk along Blue, then Green across Media City Footbridge across the Manchester Ship Canal, towards, and past, Imperial War Museum North to the Quay West building, where I took a photo of its impressive, imposing, block reflective frontage – shooting through a gap in the gates.
Manchester, Salford and Media City 130523 #3
Media City UK is an area around Salford Quays and, as the name suggests, is home to companies such as the BBC and ITV offices and studios. I had much better luck here and I’m posting my photos of my tour both today and tomorrow. How wonderful that the area has its routes named as colours. For my first group, I did a shortish circular walk along Blue, then Green across Media City Footbridge across the Manchester Ship Canal, towards, and past, Imperial War Museum North to the Quay West building, where I took a photo of its impressive, imposing, block reflective frontage – shooting through a gap in the gates.
The whole property was last occupied as a gym/fitness centre, Energie Fitness Club for Women,.and has been sub-divided internally to provide a waiting area, fitness studio, locker room etc.
Oxford rd, Manchester.
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Manchester, Salford and Media City 130523 #3
Media City UK is an area around Salford Quays and, as the name suggests, is home to companies such as the BBC and ITV offices and studios. I had much better luck here and I’m posting my photos of my tour both today and tomorrow. How wonderful that the area has its routes named as colours. For my first group, I did a shortish circular walk along Blue, then Green across Media City Footbridge across the Manchester Ship Canal, towards, and past, Imperial War Museum North to the Quay West building, where I took a photo of its impressive, imposing, block reflective frontage – shooting through a gap in the gates.
Manchester, Salford and Media City 130523 #2
At the top of Cathedral Approach, above Deansgate North Car Park, stand two tall, glass-walled buildings. Facing me, to my right, one was marked as ‘100’ and that to the left as ‘101’. If these were supposed to be street numbers, I have no idea which street was referred to. Chapel Street passes below them and Cathedral Approach leads to nowhere beyond. No matter, I began my photowalk, looking for photogenic skyscraper shots down below, close to the car park in Chapel Street. I completed a circular stroll along Chapel Street, turned right along Blackfriars Road, then Gravel Lane, Norton Street and beneath the railway arch back to the car park. There were fewer photo-opportunities than I’d hoped for, so I returned to Cathedral Approach and took some shots around 100 and 101 before I walked back to the car park. I drove to Media City UK, hoping for better luck.
The new building, designed by Roger Stephenson Architects, sits alongside the oldest surviving building in Manchester, the Jacobean Library, which was originally the former home for 'poor boys' in the seventeenth century.
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London Road Fire Station is a former fire station opened in 1906, on a site bounded by London Road, Whitworth Street, Minshull Street South and Fairfield Street. Designed in the Edwardian Baroque style by Woodhouse, Willoughby and Langham in red brick and terracotta, it cost £142,000 to build. It has been a Grade II* listed building since 1974.