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On the left is the National Football Museum and right is The Printworks, an entertainment complex - Corporation Street, Manchester 14-1-22
The Printworks, an entertainment complex - corner of Corporation Street and Withy Grove, Manchester 18-5-21
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National Football Museum, Manchester
Our train from Liverpool stops at Manchester Victoria on its way to Newcastle and for me the quickest route to catch my bus home is across the gardens surrounding the NFM and Chetham's School of Music. There are not many green spaces in Manchester for such a major city. But when the sun does come out, every social area is packed with people enjoying the good weather and the odd drink!!!
Just a quick snapshot looking towards the museum with the Printworks complex on the right. The tall building behind the museum is the old CIS (Co-operative Insurance Society) building, which has moved across the road into One Angel Square.
The glass building centre-left is the National Football Museum and on the right is The Printworks, an entertanment complex - Corporation Street, Manchester 2-10-24
Manchester
Manchester has been an evolving city for the past 20 years. Many have said that the catalyst for change was the result of the IRA bomb detonated on the 15th June 1996. Secretly, and I may get into trouble for this, but many Mancunians think this was the best thing to happen to the city, I for one agree.
The bomb detonated a couple of hundred metres away to the right on Corporation Street from where this picture was taken. The NFM (formerly Urbis) and Printworks are just a couple of examples of the regeneration all over the city, but the biggest single change has been the tram network known as Metrolink. This has single-handedly caused more chaos in the city than any other project and with the "Second City Crossing" just completed a couple of weeks ago maybe we photographers will be able to once again take normal horizontal architecture images. This is why my image looks this way... in between the NFM and the Printworks runs the SCC line with all the machinery, fencing, portacabins etc. It was the only way to bypass it all.
We're going into Manchester tomorrow, on the bus - primarily to pick up the train tickets for our London meet-up next month, as car parking is a nightmare and costly, but don't get me started on that one!
Printworks, Manchester
Yesterday I ventured into town for the first time since January and the lockdown to meet up with Eddie ‘Rainman’ Coulson. In fact, the last time was to meet up with Eddie.
Since lockdown, Mrs R has been working from home and decided to cancel her reserved parking spot in town as parking is a nightmare in Manchester, not to mention costly! So, I became an Inbetweener for the day on the buses. Protocol dictates the wearing of a facemask on public transport and although I'm not opposed to this, the experience was strange to say the least. But, better get used to this as its going to be the new norm. Getting on I was slightly relieved to see every other passenger wearing facemasks... nothing worse than turning up to a party in fancy dress only to discover no one else had bothered. Social distancing rules had made eyeing a vacant seat quickly a desperate search so I cut my loses and heading up stairs. Only two other passengers and both had bagsied the front seats!
I settled into a bank of seats ear marked for four with three tapped off. The journey only takes 40 mins so I thought I’d use the time to see who was up and about on our WhatsApp group... Geoff, Terry, Muddy and even Pete was up! It was a long-winded conversation but here are the edited highlights...
Lancashire vs Yorkshire
Nikon vs Canon
Beer
Curry
Compulsory insults all-round, but mainly heading in the direction of Yorkshire.
I got off on Bridge St and decided to walk across town to meet Eddie at the Corn Exchange tram stop. In all the years of going into Manchester I’ve never encountered it so quiet... if I had to describe the atmosphere, the nearest I could get would be to describe it as the worst bank holiday Sunday with dull grey skies in the days when the shops weren’t allowed to open. This was mid-morning, no real traffic to speak of, very few business folk on their way to appointments and even less shoppers... I felt like Tom Cruise in Vanilla Sky walking the deserted streets.
Meeting Eddie, we headed for the first coffee stop of the morning for a catchup and in-depth analysis of the pandemic and its repercussions. Afterwards we headed around the local haunts – St Peter’s Sq, Piccadilly Gardens, Market Street and back to the Corn Exchange. Photography wise there wasn’t much happening so we amused ourselves with selfies (see Eddie’s offering). Still, I hate to take my camera out and not come away with something, even if it just marks the day.
I’ve gone for the mono look just cos it reflects a typical Manchester dull grey day and the colour popping... with all the government messages for Coronavirus, is anyone seriously taking notice anymore. I waited for this message to scroll round but did anyone bother to read it or follow the guidelines. I estimated well less than 10% of the people on the streets were wearing a facemask. Today they become compulsory in shops and supermarkets although some shops have said they will not enforce it... more the case of not turning a sale away from the door!
Nineteenth Century printworks for the local news. Printing was done on the heavy machine in the back of this room, made of of moveable type composed at the front of the room.
A slow process of compiling and printing.
Beamish Museum.
Our memorable Christmas stay at the beautiful The Morrison, A DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, Dublin, Ireland. Christmas 2016. [December 2016] Highly recommended.
Modern office building next to the St James Mill, the old Jarrold & Sons printworks on the banks of the River Wensum in Norwich, UK. The printworks was originally built as a textile mill in the 1930's during the Industrial revolution, but bought by Jarrolds and converted as a printworks in 1902. It is currently used as an office complex.
Converted to mono and spilt-toned in LR.
31, Tim Lowly © 2012, ink (mixed process) on paper, 14" x 11", private collection, Winnetka.
This is a drawing that I made in September to celebrate our 31st anniversary. It is in an exhibition titled "Face Forward: The Art of the Self-Portrait" at Printworks Gallery in Chicago opening on November 28. I'm honored to be part of this exhibition which includes 44 artists - mostly from Chicago - including Riva Lehrer, Susanna Coffey, Phyllis Bramson, Kerry James Marshall, Audrey Niffenegger, Nicholas Sistler, Philip Pearlstein, and James Valerio.
You can view the work from the Printworks show here
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Our memorable Christmas stay at the beautiful The Morrison, A DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, Dublin, Ireland. Christmas 2016. [December 2016] Highly recommended.
Took this after a day's shopping in the rain. The printworks is the former Manchester Guardian Newspaper building. Processed to look in keeping with the old building's function.
The Printworks, an entertainment complex - corner of Corporation Street and Withy Grove, Manchester 30-10-20
The Printworks, Withy Grove, Manchester
The Printworks entertainment venue is located on the revamped Withy Grove site of the business premises of the 19th century newspaper proprietor Edward Hulton, established in 1873 and later expanded. Hulton's son Sir Edward Hulton expanded his father's newspaper interests and sold his publishing business based in London and Manchester to Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere when he retired in 1923. Most of the Hulton newspapers were sold again soon afterwards to the Allied Newspapers consortium formed in 1924 (renamed Kemsley Newspapers in 1943 and bought by Roy Thomson in 1959).
Earlier names of the buildings associated with publishing that were incorporated into the development include Withy Grove Printing House, the Chronicle Buildings, Allied House, Kemsley House, Thomson House and Maxwell House. Kemsley House on the corner of Withy Grove and Corporation Street was developed gradually from 1929 and became the largest newspaper printing house in Europe. The site housed a printing press until 1986. Robert Maxwell bought the property for £1 and subsequently closed it down. The building was left unused for over a decade and fell derelict.
In 1998 the derelict building and surrounding site were bought for £10 million by Shudehill Developments, a joint venture by Co-operative Wholesale Society and Co-operative Insurance Society which owned buildings and land adjacent to the building. The building was renamed The Printworks reflecting its past history and underwent a £110 million conversion to transform the property into an entertainment venue. The frontage Pevsner describes as a "weakly Baroque Portland stone façade" was retained, and part of an internal railway from the newspaper business and its turntable for transporting newspapers was incorporated into the new floor.
In 2000 the Printworks was opened by Sir Alex Ferguson and Lionel Richie as the venue for a variety of clubs and eateries. The new 365,000-square-foot facility is set over four floors. The new building features a twenty-screen UCI cinema complex (subsequently bought by Odeon and, in 2017, by Vue Cinemas) which includes North West England's first IMAX screen, a Virgin Active fitness club, a Hard Rock Cafe restaurant and a Tiger Tiger nightclub. The external lighting facing Exchange Square has been changed numerous times since opening.
The Printworks, an entertainment complex - corner of Corporation Street and Withy Grove, Manchester 21-7-20
It being our second anniversary, Herself and I celebrated by, among other things, taking a trip on the Manchester Wheel. The views were marvellous - pity about the voiceover.
Our memorable Christmas stay at the beautiful The Morrison, A DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, Dublin, Ireland. Christmas 2016. [December 2016] Highly recommended.