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.

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.

The interior of the more modern section of the John Rylands Research library, Manchester UK

Part 2 of the black and white conversions of my Manchester architecture series.

Manchester Piccadilly is the principal railway station in Manchester, England. Opened as Store Street in 1842 and renamed Manchester London Road in 1847. The station consists of 14 platforms; 12 of which are terminal platforms, the other two are through platforms situated to the south of the train shed. Two platforms for the Metrolink light rail network are located in the station's undercroft.

Manchester architecture from my trip with my little sister.

Looking across the River Irwell with former Exchange Station Approach sweeping in from the left

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.

The interior of the more modern section of the John Rylands Research library, Manchester UK

Shot on the Mamiya 7 mk2 using Kodak Ektar 100 color film. Not to be used without my permission.

Cranes up for the sunshine

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Barbirolli Square, Manchester - named after one of the Halle orchestra's most respected conductors

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.