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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.
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.
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.