Mundane pictures of the North

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MOSI Air and Space Gallery.

 

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Dimitri's restaurant on Deansgate. Not been for many years, but it was a nice little place.

 

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Railway bridges on Deansgate.

 

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A trio of railway bridges.

 

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Deansgate - this is the longest Victorian frontage in the country I think, or one of them at any rate.

 

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Service road under GMEX.

 

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This is the old Bauer Millett car showroom that closed recently. Now the inevitable car park.

 

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New building opposite the Central Library, St Peter's Square.

 

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Progress on the new building on the site of the former Aytoun Street Labour Exchange. As I walked round the corner after taking some pictures, two random blokes asked if I was from Skyscraper City website, oddly.

 

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A flying skip.

 

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No matter how often I see this, I hate it every time. Ugly, ugly, ugly.

 

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The nice old HSBC building, 100 King Street, designed by Edwin Lutyens. There's now a bloody Jamie Oliver restaurant in it.

 

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Ugly pair of buildings on Mosley Street.

 

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This was flying over the centre all day due to the dickheads from EDL who were holding a facist rally in Albert Square.

 

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The nice old Midland Hotel.

 

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I don't think this statue was there before they revamped the Central Library.

 

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I've always liked this building, but there are some interesting symbols on it when you look more closely - a ship and the bees. Don't know what the history of the building is though - something to do with trading presumably.

ETA - I've just noticed it has swastikas on it! I'll have to try and find out the background to it.

 

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GMEX.

 

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The nice old Free Trade Hall.

 

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Old warehouse, now a cinema and car park and stuff. It has always felt as if it is the wrong end of town to survive.

 

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Cult HQ.

 

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Random building on a side street.

 

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I've not spotted this before - tucked away behind the John Rylands Library.

Obviously part of a movement with the Street Childrens' Mission.

 

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Just up the street, another Street Childrens' Mission building.

With a pub tucked away down the alley, which I didn't know about either.

 

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Back of the Masonic Hall.

 

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Lying street signs.

 

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Fire escape.

 

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Buildings off Parsonage.

Arkwright House.

This building was mentioned in a book about WWIII planning to be some kind of control centre when the bomb dropped.

 

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Rich people's flats, Deansgate.

 

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Ugly building opposite - nice to know they have to look out on some hideous buildings from their posh flats.