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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...

Bridge under Exchange Station
Famous Italian city

AFTER INTER-RAILING AROUND EUROPE, inevitably comparisons are drawn between Manchester and continental cities - which one is this?

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?

King Street
Manchester Airport

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
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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...

Church tower
Influential people in Manchester

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
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MORE PICTURES from Manchester, taken out and about, including the new Metrolink line to Eccles.... click here to see them...

 

cinema
Higher Blackley view

More pictures taken out and about in Manchester and beyond. Here's the view from sunny Higher Blackley, taken on Tuesday 18 July 2000.
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Disused railway lineA 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...

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...

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...

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...

Spring 2000 development update - See how the area around Deansgate is being transformed by new development. CLICK HERE TO SEE FEATURE

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...

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...

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...
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...

PHOTOS TAKEN OUT AND ABOUT in the beautiful but run-down Alexandra Park, Moss Side, and on Princess Road - Click on the images to seelarger version of the pictures

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... Click to read more...
ANCOATS: FIRST INDUSTRIAL SUBURB IN THE WORLD a name which conjures up many images - smoke, factories, grime, chimneys, "dark satanic mills", murky canals, red brick warehouses... but Ancoats, a place steeped in the past, looks to have a bright future. Click to read more...


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