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The Printworks is an urban entertainment venue offering a cinema, clubs and eateries, located on the corner of Withy Grove and Corporation Street in Manchester city centre, England.
A Personal Matter (Kenzaburo Oe), Tim Lowly © 2010, reduction woodcut, 10" x 7.5"
The Japanese author Kenzaburo Oe is one of my primary contemporary touchstones as an artist. His disabled son Hikari has been at the center of his work in a parallel–if obviously different way–than my daughter Temma has centered my work. "A Personal Matter" is the book for which he won the Nobel prize for literature and even though it is not my favorite of his books the title seemed an effective indication of our shared interest in (among other things) producing art from personal experience.
This print was made as a response to the invitation by Printworks Gallery in Chicago to produce a print related to a favorite novel for their 2010 exhibition "Cover Stories: The Art of the Book Jacket".
Printed with the assistance of Rachel McHan.
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Located in the centre of the city, the UK’s second largest Hard Rock Cafe will rock your senses serving what can only be described as “The Official Food of Rock”, generous drinks and an awe-inspiring collection of rock memorabilia. Priceless pieces from legends The Beatles, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Oasis, and Elvis Presley grace the cafe walls along with more contemporary items including stage costumes worn by Natasha Bedingfield and the Arctic Monkeys.
As one of the city’s largest music experience destinations, Hard Rock Cafe Manchester can accommodate a crowd of up to 450 guests and features a Rock Shop, live concert stage for performances and special events, and a Rock Lounge mezzanine floor with its own cocktail bar available for private parties of up to 100 invited guests.
Back after an extended layoff with a short series of photos taken at an exhibition, part of Galway's International Arts Festival, which opened Monday. This one, I think, gives off some Ed Hopper vibes. Diana Copperwhite's 'Onomatopoeia' series, which feature in my images, is on display at the Printworks Gallery until July 30.
The lands of Rouken Glen Park originally belonged to the Scottish Crown, and then to the Earl of Eglinton, presented to Hugh Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Eglinton on the marriage of his son in the year 1530 by James V.[1] It takes its name from the old Rock End Meal Mill in the glen, which dates back to the early 16th century. The remains of the meal mill can be seen at the foot of the waterfall, deep within the foliage and rhododendron bushes high on the slope away from the pathway. Amongst the park's owners were Walter Crum of Thornliebank and Archibald Cameron Corbett, M.P. for Tradeston, Glasgow (later Lord Rowallan) who gifted the estate and mansion house to the citizens of Glasgow. It was officially opened on 25 May 1906 and leased in June 1984 to the then Eastwood District Council, whose area was later included by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 into East Renfrewshire. Rouken Glen Park is commonly referred to by the locals as 'Rookie G'.
Rouken Glen Park won the UK's Best Park as voted by YOU! 2016 Award at the Fields in Trust awards ceremony on 30 November 2016 - coming top in a public vote from 214 nominated parks across the UK.
The glen has many of the typical features of an Edwardian urban park, such as a boating pond started in 1923 by Sir Robert McAlpine to replace a former curling pond. Rouken Glen includes a large waterfall surrounded by steep woodland; the waterfall is based on a natural waterfall, doubled in height to form a reservoir to supply the printworks downstream at Thornliebank during the early 19th century. There is a walled garden in the grounds of the former manor, Birkenshaw house.
Printworks is an urban entertainment complex on the corner of Withy Grove and Corporation Street in Manchester city centre. It currently contains a large cinema, bars, restaurants and nightclubs — alongside a bowling alley, arcade, mini golf and a health centre.
The Printworks is an urban entertainment venue offering a cinema, clubs and eateries, located on the corner of Withy Grove and Corporation Street in Manchester city centre, England... Wiki.
The lands of Rouken Glen Park originally belonged to the Scottish Crown, and then to the Earl of Eglinton, presented to Hugh Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Eglinton on the marriage of his son in the year 1530 by James V.[1] It takes its name from the old Rock End Meal Mill in the glen, which dates back to the early 16th century. The remains of the meal mill can be seen at the foot of the waterfall, deep within the foliage and rhododendron bushes high on the slope away from the pathway. Amongst the park's owners were Walter Crum of Thornliebank and Archibald Cameron Corbett, M.P. for Tradeston, Glasgow (later Lord Rowallan) who gifted the estate and mansion house to the citizens of Glasgow. It was officially opened on 25 May 1906 and leased in June 1984 to the then Eastwood District Council, whose area was later included by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 into East Renfrewshire. Rouken Glen Park is commonly referred to by the locals as 'Rookie G'.
Rouken Glen Park won the UK's Best Park as voted by YOU! 2016 Award at the Fields in Trust awards ceremony on 30 November 2016 - coming top in a public vote from 214 nominated parks across the UK.
The glen has many of the typical features of an Edwardian urban park, such as a boating pond started in 1923 by Sir Robert McAlpine to replace a former curling pond. Rouken Glen includes a large waterfall surrounded by steep woodland; the waterfall is based on a natural waterfall, doubled in height to form a reservoir to supply the printworks downstream at Thornliebank during the early 19th century. There is a walled garden in the grounds of the former manor, Birkenshaw house.
This is a printing house called "Mission Print". There was a rather large puddle outside the building and an appropriately parked yellow car. I like the riot of colours and reflections that the picture generates making for interesting viewing.
Urbis at night, Manchester city centre. Built in 2002, it
has been home to the National Football Museum since 2012.
Withy Grove/Shudehill & Dantzic St, Manchester
Another from my WIP folder from way back in May 2023. I think this was a Flickr meetup to coincide with Brad and Barb annual pilgrimage to the UK. We don’t half photograph some odd ball things!
Don’t know much about the place, or it’s history but it’s a well-known Manchester slum/landmark. I found a good blog about it by Ben Brown so I hope he doesn’t mind me coping his text (thanks in anticipation)… no point in reinventing the wheel!
Okay so this is a bit of a weird and mysterious one now and something that anyone who has lived in Manchester for a while will be a little perplexed about - it's the Withy Grove Stores round the back of The Printworks.
I’m sure most people have been down that end, either heading to the cinema to watch Shrek 3 or scooting round to Walkabout on a Wednesday night to get sloshed on cheap vodka and dance to the Vengaboys.
The shop itself is one of those oddities that make living in any city a rather interesting experience. It’s basically a safe shop that time forgot, one that is seemingly never open, has no customers and hasn’t had a lick of paint in about 50 years. As someone who has been frequenting the city centre for around 20 years, I have so many questions regarding this place that I thought it best to do some investigating to try and uncover what is going on.
Is the shop even still in business? Who owns it? Why hasn’t it been bought and turned into a kebab shop like everywhere else near there? Is it being used as a front for the mafia? So. Many. Questions.
So, to begin with during this investigation (and it is an investigation) I thought it a good idea to try and look into the history of the building (and the company) to try to shed some light on the whole affair and perhaps work out what the hell is going on. For the record though – I actually really like the building and so I don’t want anything to happen to it – I think the huge letters on the side are brilliant and the building itself manages to uphold a certain character that most of the newer surrounding ones could never have.
So, the history. A bit of digging has uncovered a similar safe and office interior company called Withy Grove Office Interiors who explain that the company began on Withy Grove in Manchester all the way back in 1850. They then later got offices in Leeds which is where the company operates nowadays.
The story goes that around the end of the 18th Century, 1799 in fact, a safe company was set up by a one John R Solomon (remember this name) – the Richmond Safe Co, who supplied iron branded and iron clad strongboxes for ships and general maritime clobber. Most likely gold doubloons, rum, hooks and elaborately carved wooden legs.
The Richmond Safe Company continued to operate until around 1840 when they located to offices on Withy Grove and renamed the company the Withy Grove Stores. From here the company expanded to have 3 sites in the North West – Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool.
For over 130 years the shop on Withy Grove continues to flog safes and furniture, while everything else around it either went into disrepair or disappeared altogether. The huge Withy Grove Printing House round the back continued to churn out the Mirror, before closing down in 1985, while the Arndale centre replaced a variety of shops (including the original Fred Aldous) on the opposite side of the road. Around the 1980’s each site was still run by a member of the Solomon family, but it seems that they all fell out over something and so each site was broken up and given to a brother to look after. The Leeds site was sold off by Casper Solomon to private owners but it seems that the Manchester site is still very much owned by a Solomon to this day.
A quick check on Companies House lets you know that the Directors of the company are Brian Solomon and Anthony Solomon – both still owning and running the Withy Grove Stores on Withy Grove. Their accounts from 2016 don’t look too healthy but that didn’t come as too much of a surprise to me considering I’ve never once seen the place open or even a customer trying the door to see if they can nip in for a quick Yale Value 8.5Ltr Electronic Budget Safe.
But if the company is still operating, why have so many people never seen it open and why does it look like nobody has touched it in about 40 years? Surprisingly they have a website, which says to give them a ring for opening hours – so I did just that.
The phone was answered by a lovely woman, and we were told that the shop is indeed open and she proceeded to bang out some rather erratic opening times for the week ahead. I mean, I don’t really want or need a safe because I’m neither a pirate or a drug dealer so I wasn’t really listening to the random times, but you can be assured – if you ARE a pirate or a drug dealer – Withy Groves Stores is for you.
It feels nice and satisfying to finally have a bit of information on the Withy Grove Stores – a very endearing and quaint part of the city that provides a lovely little window into the city’s past. I’ve heard thoughts that the place might be a bit dodgy and although the phone call was a little bit odd, there’s nothing to suggest anything untoward is going on.
As quite possibly Manchester’s oldest locally owned family businesses (around 219 years if my maths is correct) I think it’s somewhere we should champion and support. At the end of the day, it would be a real shame to see it knocked down or turned into a brand-spanking new kebab shop for the pissed up punters stumbling out of The Lounge on a Friday.
37407 'Blackpool Tower' gets away from the Frome stop working the summer dated 2O86 08.30 Bristol Temple Meads-Weymouth 'Wales & West' service on 02/09/99. The Butler & Tanner printworks in the background is now a housing estate.
PENTAX 67, PENTAX 105mm, Fujichrome 100.
Atrium, formerly Thomas Forman and Sons printers, Hucknall Road, Nottingham. This is the main entrance to what I think was the largest printworks in Nottingham.
A small detail of teh richly decorated elevation of Everard's Printworks, Broad Street, Bristol. this is a buildingthat bekons me back again and again with its extraordinarily un-English decorated frontage
Dark when I go to work, and dark when I come home so urban street work it is, for now. Wildlife has to take a back seat for a wee while.
Motherwell allocated 37409 'Loch Awe' gets away from Frome passing the former Butler & Tanner Printworks working 2O87 09.00 Bristol Temple Meads-Weymouth on 22/05/99.
The works has since been demolished and cleared for housing...
www.hcdltd.com/project/butler-and-tanner-printworks-frome/
PENTAX 67, PENTAX 105mm, Fuji PROVIA 100
Manchester’s city skyline from the Northern Quarter.
Thanks for looking 😊
Pictures taken on Wednesday 31st October at the Halloween Roller Disco held at Pure in the Printworks, Manchester.
Join the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6194590963"Facebook group for more info or vist the website at rollerdiscomanchester.com/!
Join us every Wednesday from 9.30pm till 3am at PURE nightclub in The Printworks, Manchester for Roller Disco, admission is free before 11pm, £3 NUS, £4 others after 11pm, 600 pairs of skates between UK size 2 to UK size 12 available to hire, skate hire is £3 or you can bring your own.
One of (I think) two ex British Airways Leyland Nationals with unusual offside door that the embryonic MTL Manchester used for driver training when recruiting new drivers at start up. Both this and the other one (6186, WGY 586S) were eventually converted to regular layout for service.
The background is quite interesting as well, featuring a derelict Maxwell House, the former newspaper printing works, before its eventual conversion to the Printworks cinema and leisure complex. Mark Lane now forms part of the centre's entrance.
Manchester, Withy Grove, 28/01/1994.