A MANCHESTER MISCELLANY

2011-2014

This is a a collection of images of Manchester taken on several occasions between 2011 and 2014. The Manchester bombing of 1996 saw the biggest explosion in Britain since the Second World War. Several buildings were damaged beyond repair and had to be demolished, while many more were closed for months for structural repairs. Most of the rebuilding work was completed by the end of 1999, at a cost of £1.2 billion, although redevelopment continued until 2005. The Financial Crisis of 2007/8 was the biggest since the Great Depression. Many new buildings were created in the few years before and after the Commonwealth Games in 2002. Among them were the Bridgewater Hall, which had its first concert in September 1996 and the Beetham Tower, completed in 2006. In this period we see Manchester recovering from the problems of the previous two decades,

Corner of Police Street		Inside the Barton Arcade off Deansgate
Hilton from Lower Moseley St.		Railings by Museum of Science and Industry
Mancheser Cathedral		Central Library Dome
Bridge ironwork		Ironwork on bridge over Gloucester Street off Oxford Rd.
Facing Bridgewater Hall		Wellington Public House
Refuge Insurance Building		Oxford Road graffiti
Cromwell in Statue Gallery		Townhall Sculpture Gallery in 2013. Currently closed
James Prescott Joule, Physicist		Castlefields under the railway bridges
John Dalton, Chemist, Townhall		Motor cycle rally by Central Station
HQ of Tootal's, Oxford Rd.		Victorian architecture on Oxford Road
Beetham Tower		Midland Hotel and motorcycle rally
"Peveril" on Great Bridgewater St.		Sawyers' Arms on Deansgate

Town Scenes

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