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STUNNING
VIEWS ALONG THE QUAYS. The former Docks have been
transformed into a futuristic waterworld of glass
and steel buildings including the War Museum, the
Lowry, the Designer Outlet, with homes, offices and
businesses - and spectacular sunsets over the water.
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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 With previously unpublished archive and contemporary photographs.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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EXPLORE
LEVENSHULME and discover there's more to this historic
suburb than meets the eye.Walk down the A6, down side
roads, footpaths and along a disused railway line.
Levenshulme has seen better days, but regeneration
is underway. Special guests provide fascinating insights.
Over fifty locations captured, and more to come! Next
stop Levenshulme...
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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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STREET
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PANORAMAS
WHITWORTH
STREET
TAMESIDE
DENTON
DIDSBURY
CHEMNITZ
GERMANY
SALE
IRLAM
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PARK
HERMES
EXHIBITION (NOV99)
TURNING
BACK THE CLOCKS
RECONSTRUCTION
UPDATE (OCT99)
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