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Photo feature pages October 2003 - June 2005
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MIXTURE OF TOPICS is presented in 'Letter from Manchester' style,
including upbeat and downbeat news items, questions of the day and my
answers to a student questionnaire about the city. With 32 new and
recent photos described in detail. So how is Manchester at the
moment...?
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WIDESPREAD
REDEVELOPMENT is in progress around Manchester. But to make way for the
new, much of the old - and even the not so old - is being swept away. Is
that the Town Hall clock tower being knocked down? Pay a visit to Manchester -
Demolition City
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READER
MESSAGES written in response to features and photos from Eyewitness
Manchester, some offering criticism, others pointing out factual errors.
With photos, some newly published, including this one of the crib in St
Ann's Square. Go
to the Reader Messages update
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THE
MANCUNIAN WAY Manchester's 'Highway in
the Sky' is one of Manchester's busiest
roads and a symbol of post-war development. But there's more to the
A57(M) than meets the eye, as this feature uncovers. With 34 photographs
and some amazing facts, and why is the Mancunian Way
sign upside down..?
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METROLINK:
A potted history and appraisal of trams and public transport in
Manchester, with a selection of forty tram photos from the Eyewitness in
Manchester archive. Produced
in support of the MEN's Get Back On Track campaign. Next stop Metrolink...
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CASTLEFIELD
once a scene of industrial decline is now transformed into an upmarket
area of glitzy offices apartments and cafe bars. Despite all the
changes, Castlefield's industrial past is still there to be seen. View Castlefield feature,
with new format and layout.
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CHORLTON
is one of Manchester's best-loved residential districts, combining a
strong character of Victorian Manchester with a young, contemporary
flair. We take a walk around familiar streets and green spaces during
the sunny weather of May 2004. Next
stop Chorlton...
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TEST
YOUR LOCAL KNOWLEDGE in this picture quiz based on 50 photos, many
previously unpublished, taken in and around Manchester. The images
reflect the changing face of Manchester, though some places remain the
same. Do you recognise where this is? Click to take the test...
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READER MESSAGES with personal
views on Ardwick, Longsight, Levenshulme and Salford, an appreciation of
snow, an eyewitness account of the Irk Valley rail disaster, also
details of the Trevor Grimshaw Exhibition Stockport Art Gallery starting
24 April. Click to find out more
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SHOULD
THERE BE an elected regional government for North West England? Using
scenes taken around the North West as a starting point, I discuss some of the issues. Click to see more...
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SNOW came to Manchester in January
2004 transforming familiar places into painterly scenes. See how
Manchester and surrounding areas looked during the two-day Arctic Snap.
27 new photos with descriptions and location details. Click to see more
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TAKE
A TRIP BACK TO 1953 via news items from the Manchester Evening News,
selected and summarised by EWM with 15 moody monochrome images. Click to go back to 1953
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WE CONTINUE OUR WALK around a city
in the midst of rapid change. Is this the best of all possible scenarios
or are the mistakes of the 1960's being made again? Click to see Part
Two of the autumn 03 construction update and new Ideas Page.
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OUR CITY is in the midst of a
building boom. Everywhere you look there are cranes and construction
sites. Take a look at some of the work in progress and see if you can
visualise the Manchester of tomorrow . Click to see Part
One of the autumn
03 construction update.
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AUTUMN
LEAVES are a spectacular sight in the parks, gardens, streets and woods
around Manchester and beyond. 20 previously unpublished autumnal scenes
from four counties and eight local authority areas: Click to see Autumn Leaves...
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THE
CONURBATION looks stunning when seen from
an elevated viewpoint. Find out how the
city, countryside and hills look from the Imperial War Museum, Winter
Hill and other places. Click to go to High Level Views...
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READER MESSAGES with good news,
sad news, and the usual mixture of opinion, information, reminiscences
and lots more. There's
a previously unpublished view of Hulme, and a tip regarding a good place
to enjoy scenic views - See picture left. Click to view the latest Reader
Messages...
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EYEWITNESS
IN MANCHESTER PEOPLE updated and extended. Photos of personalities with
local connections both famous and should-be-famous. All pages now online
with over fifty
portrait photos and personal profiles. Click to go to intropage with latest
additions...
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STUNNING VIEWS ALONG THE QUAYS.
The former Docks have been transformed into a futuristic waterworld of
glass and steel buildings: the War Museum, the Lowry, the Designer
Outlet, homes, offices
and spectacular sunsets over the water. Click to go to the Quays...
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READER MESSAGES about Manchester
music, place name origins, Lady Shena Simon, Piccadilly redevelopment,
Ancoats, impressions of contemporary Manchester, reminiscences of
Ardwick and Levenshulme, municipal boundary issues, illustrated with
photos from the EWM collection. Click
to view...
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TWO DEMONSTRATIONS IN MANCHESTER -
two opposing viewpoints, two sets of people with a message to proclaim.
See how the conflict in Iraq has brought people out onto the streets of
city centre Manchester to put their views across. . Click to go to Oxford Road...
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THE MAGIC OF MANCHESTER - Music of
the City, Nostalgia, Imagination and Time Travel - Feature article
revealing the inspiration behind Eyewitness in Manchester. Discover how
a musically-inspired vision of Manchester gained during childhood would
be the driving force behind this website. With previously unpublished
archive and contemporary photographs. Take a trip back to the
1960's...
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ARDWICK - Much more than just a
run-down inner city suburb, Ardwick captures an essential part of the
spirit of Manchester. A place with a history and a reputation - much
changed today, but slowly making a comeback. Is it too soon yet to call
Ardwick Green the Sloane Square of Manchester? Come for a walk around Ardwick
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READER MESSAGES UPDATE with many
fascinating accounts - Prestwich, local place names, were people really
happy in the good old days in Openshaw? Find out what one US-based
reader thinks of the new Piccadilly, plus some interesting and
spine-tingling ghost stories! Go to
the Reader Messages page.
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MORE
DUSK VIEWS of Manchester and Salford
captured during December 2002. The revamped
shopping district, Piccadilly, the Imperial War Museum, churches,
Christmas trees, street scenes, the Manchester skyline, Exchange Square,
the Urbis Centre. Click to view
25 new photos & articles
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IMAGES
OF MANCHESTER captured before during and after dusk - It's November
2002 and the long nights have arrived. Late afternoon and early evening
winter views of familiar places in and around the city centre, an old
police station on fire and a 'Green Goddess'. Click to view photos & articles
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EYEWITNESS
IN MANCHESTER PEOPLE section returns - now in a new format. Photos of
people with local connections both famous and should-be-famous. The
feature will be put online in stages, starting with the intropage with
latest additions, and A-F page. Click
to go to intropage
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READER
MESSAGES - so many received I've had to split the latest batch into two
- the first set presented now and the rest shortly. More comments about
the building on the right, and some sharp but constructive criticism of
my work. Go to the Reader Messages
update
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BEST
OF EYEWITNESS IN MANCHESTER 1997 - 2002 -
Selection of the best photographs from
Eyewitness in Manchester chosen from over
3000 created over a five and a half year
period, with newly written articles and opinion. Go to Best of EWM...
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IN
THIS READER REQUESTS FEATURE I go out and about in search of locations
asked for by EWM readers. Fifty-three previously unpublished picture
files capturing a variety of places from derelict streets to affluent
suburbs and from deserted footpaths to famous tourist attractions. The
meandering journey starts in Besses o' th' Barn... Go to the EWM Reader Requests
Feature...
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CHAPEL STREET CITY OF SALFORD,
just across the Irwell from Manchester city centre, is a street full of
surprises. Vacant sites, unoccupied buildings and urban decay stand side
by side with Georgian and Victorian gems, magnificent churches and some
of the best contemporary architecture around. Chapel Street is now under
redevelopment. See how it looks in September
2002...
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EYEWITNESS
IN MANCHESTER READERS have sent another batch of remarkable messages
and pictures. See Piccadilly Gardens and Whit Walks in 1949, find out
about the landslide which swept away a whole street in Salford, and read
a chilling and remarkable childhood account from just south of the
Mersey - Go to the Reader Messages
update
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DISCOVER THE CITY OF SALFORD with
my distinguished guest, the Mayor of the City of Salford (May 01-02)
Councillor Jim King. Where in Salford can you find the skull of a saint?
How has Salford changed and what makes it different from Manchester? Find out from the person who
should know...
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THE NEW PICCADILLY is examined in
detail in this major Eyewitness update. Birds eye views from high above
Piccadilly give us an overview of the new development. At ground level
we look at the concrete wall, grassy areas, statues and neighbouring
building site. Lots of EWM opinion and comments. "Most exciting public
space in Europe" or planning disaster? What's the verdict?
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APRIL MAY READER MESSAGES - Lots
of fascinating contributions with vivid portraits of a different
Manchester from the one we see today. More opinions on the new
Piccadilly Gardens, and where in Manchester did they make delicious ice
cream like this? Click here to find out
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IN
THE GARDEN OF WHICH EMINENT PERSON are these daffodils growing? Find out
in my Daffodils Quiz - a gapfill picture quiz not so much about
daffodils but about the places, highways and districts around Manchester
where you'll see them growing every year. Try your hand and see how well
you score!
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THE URBIS CENTRE has landed! A new
shape on the northern city centre skyline is arousing worldwide
attention and local controversy. Was it right to put a building like
this in a location like this and will it be worth the money? The museum
of the modern city is scheduled to open on 27 June 2002. Today 11April I
attended the official media preview. Click here for my first
impressions of Urbis
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IN
THIS MARCH 2002 CITY CENTRE UPDATE we look at what's new, what's
disappeared, what's still there - Renovated bus and train stations, new
apartments, hotels and offices, but what about the buildings that have
quietly and unexpectedly disappeared and are about to? Prepare for a
shock or two as we walk around Piccadilly, Deansgate and Whitworth
Street Click here
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MORE
READER MESSAGES - See the new Piccadilly
nearing completion, read an account of
nighttime Manchester in the early sixties,
plus lots more, including an MEN article about EWM - the person, not the
website! It's all here...
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TAKE
A WALK AROUND THE MILLENNIUM QUARTER and
check out the Urbis Centre, due to open in
mid-2002. We gaze up at another new building
designed by the same architect, and find out why the postbox that
withstood the bomb is now looking a bit lacklustre Click to see more
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WE
START 2002 WITH A READER MESSAGES UPDATE. Did you know that early
broadcasts of Top of the Pops were done from Dickenson Road? What's the
story regarding the underground Market Centre, the Kendals tunnel and
the building 'encased' in the Arndale Centre? The update is illustrated
with some gloomy dusk shots of places mentioned... Have
a read, rediscover a location and maybe find a friend...
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GET
A BIRD'S EYE VIEW over city and countryside
in the latest EWM update, featuring a
selection of photographs captured at some of my favourite vantage points
in and around the city. The picture on the right shows the area next to
Manchester Cathedral and the Britannic buildings, currently under
redevelopment. Click to see this and more views...
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THE
LATEST BATCH OF READER MESSAGES reveal more
striking details of life in Manchester in
different times. Some new photographs, including this one of the
Mancunian Way. What's the Cold War connection with this scene? And just
how many pubs stood at the corners of Moston Lane and Rochdale Road in
the early 60's? Click here to read messages and see
pictures...
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IT'S
QUIZ TIME AGAIN! Find out more quirky facts
about Manchester and its changing face. Why is the water feature on Exchange Square in a
froth, why did an EWM expat reader share an MEN front page with Robbie
Williams and what's the origin of Tib Street? All
is revealed here...
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