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March to December 2000
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A SUPERB
MUSEUM with old trams, just an hour or so from Manchester:
Where is it? See Heaton Park in the rain, and find out
what has appeared on the site of the Rialto Cinema,
on Bury New Road. Click
here to see more...
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FIND OUT
WHAT WAS HAPPENING in Manchester during the week ending
24th of November 1950, exactly 50 years ago. The reports
are illustrated with black and white photos of some
of the locations mentioned. Click
here...
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TAKE A WALK
ALONG MOSLEY STREET, and see some local views captured
during the heavy rain of late October and early November
2000. Click here to see
more...
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'DADDY FOX'
is the new feature film by Didsbury-based film-maker
John McCormack. On Friday 27
October 2000, a number of scenes were filmed at Withington
Hospital, with some very famous actors present. Click
to see more...
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HEAVY RAIN
FELL on central Manchester on Monday 9th of October.
There were rainbows in Burnage the previous day. See
also the Manchester Aquatics Centre, an artist's view
of the town hall, some unusual street lights in Liverpool,
and more assorted images and articles from out and about.
Click here to see more...
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EYEWITNESS
@ IN THE CITY - snapshots from the UK's music industry
convention, held in Manchester 23-27 September 2000.
And who's the singer that looks like the guy from Steps
but sounds like Pavarotti? There are more famous faces
from Manchester music, and which act is going to be
the Manchester mega-star of 2002? Click
here to find out more...
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WHAT'S GOING
ON HERE? I'm busy enhancing one of the photographs for
Eyewitness in Manchester, of course. Look behind the
scenes and find out how I get the images to look the
way they do. This is my first Q&A 'techie' page,
and it's coloured yellow to distinguish it from the
normal pages. Click here
to see more...
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THE
AMBASSADOR CINEMA, Langworthy Road Salford was in mid-2000
scheduled for demolition but in October it was saved.
Many cinemas have sadly been lost but new ones are under
construction. New films are also being made in and around
Manchester - I'm involved with two of them... CLICK
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A 163 YEAR
OLD FORMER WIRE WORKS IN ANCOATS is being demolished
after a fire. In this building, the first transatlantic
cable was probably made. While frantic development goes
on in and around Manchester, our industrial heritage
is slowly being destroyed. Does anyone care? Click
here to see more, plus other pictures taken out and
about...
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WHY IS THE
AMERICAN FLAG flying over the Town Hall? See also some
amazing rainbows over St Peter Square, and other pictures
of changing Manchester. Click
here to see photos...
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ANCOATS,
THE MASONIC TEMPLE, COBDEN HOUSE CHAMBERS AND THE PLAZA
CINEMA STOCKPORT, four fascinating locations I visited
during the weekend of Heritage Open Days 16/17 September
2000. And who is this distinguished person? Click
here to see more...
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WHY IS SPIDER
IN CORFU? Making the feature film 'Daddy Fox', of course.
Yours truly was commissioned to take the still photographs
for this psycho-thriller set for release in 2001. -
To see my Daddy Fox Corfu
selection, click here! (or here
for a printer-friendly version of the page). More photos
from the second part of the shoot in October/November.
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I CONCLUDE
my night time walk around the seedier parts of city
centre Manchester, begun in March of this year click
here to see more...
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AFTER
INTER-RAILING AROUND EUROPE, inevitably comparisons
are drawn between Manchester and continental cities
- which one is this?
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MANCHESTER
is changing all the time - and not always for the better
- new buildings are going up and old ones coming down.
Join me on a walk around the city centre to see what's
happening in August 2000. Is that building you used
to know still there, or
has it been demolished?
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IT'S
HOLIDAY TIME and people are flying out from Manchester
Airport and departing on trains from Piccadilly - see
these and other pictures in the
LATEST PICTURE UPDATE
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MORE PHOTOS
taken around Manchester, and further afield, in late
July. What's the name of this church? It isn't Manchester
Cathedral click here to
see more...
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WHO
ARE THESE TWO PEOPLE? They play a central role in Manchester
life? I caught up with them at an invitation-only party
in Manchester's fashionable Gay Village
click here to see the faces...
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More
pictures taken out and about in Manchester and beyond.
Here's the view from sunny Higher Blackley, taken on
Tuesday 18 July 2000.
CLICK HERE TO SEE PICTURES
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A
FIVE MILE WALK along a disused railway line on a rainy
Sunday in July. A good way of spending the day?
FIND OUT HERE... |
MORE
PICTURES taken whilst out and about in Manchester and further
afield. Is that the sun setting next to the Grand Mosque in
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, or is it Strangeways Prison?
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE PHOTOS...
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OUT
AND ABOUT in Manchester city centre, Wigan and Merseyside during
the changeable weather of the May bank holiday weekend - here
are the latest photos, uploaded the same day they were taken
CLICK HERE TO SEE PHOTOS...
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THE
LOWRY in Salford Quays is attracting more and more admirers,
some of them water-borne as can be seen in this picture. Opinions
are divided about the purple and orange colour scheme, however.
CLICK
HERE TO SEE PICTURES...
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MORE
PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN while out and about in Manchester, using the
brand new Nikon Coolpix 990 digital camera. This was taken while
out on an evening stroll. Can you identify this road? CLICK
HERE TO SEE MORE... |
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Spring
2000 development update - See how the area around Deansgate
is being transformed by new development. CLICK
HERE TO SEE FEATURE
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WHILE
THE SUN SETS OVER THE NEWLY OPENED LOWRY, in Salford Quays,
it's the end of the road for Piccadilly Gardens, in Manchester
city centre... CLICK HERE TO SEE
MORE... |
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SEE
THE STRANGELY SHAPED tree trunk in Boggart Hole Clough - and
the Bradford gas cylinder, in April 2000 being dismantled.
All part of the constantly changing sights of Manchester.
CLICK
HERE TO SEE PICTURE UPDATE...
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EYEWITNESS
IN MANCHESTER PICTURE UPDATE - click to see the latest pictures,
including the Streets Ahead opening parade (right), Dovestone
Reservoir, a panorama of east Manchester and a mini-review of
a fascinating book of old photographs. CLICK
HERE TO SEE MORE... |
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DO
YOU RECOGNISE THESE VIEWS, taken from an airliner on its final
approach to Manchester Airport? Test your knowledge and see
if you can put names to places. CLICK
HERE TO SEE MORE... |
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WELCOME
TO MANCHESTER CITY CENTRE AT NIGHT on
the last weekend before the clocks go forward - and the evenings
suddenly get shorter. They say Manchester is the city with the
best nightclub scene in Europe - but tonight I'm staying out
on the centre streets and capturing the scenes around me...
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