Manchester: City Centre
Manchester. Wed 1 Aug 2018
From our hotel window we could see Great Ancoats St
and the Ashton Canal
Under the brdige is the short New Islington arm
From the end of our corridor there was a view roughly south towards
Piccadilly Station
and by the lifts another window looked out to distant hills
Ashton Canal. At right is the Vulcan and Albion Mills, now converted
to flats
The Islington Branch, just over 100 metres long now - it used to be
about twice as long
The lock keeper's cottage
Ashton Canal from Jutland St
I worked at one of the rooms on this side of the UMIST main building
UMIST
River Medlock from Charles St
River Medlock from Oxford Rd
Refuge Assurance Building 1891 by Alfred Waterhouse, extended 1910
and 1912 by his son Paul Waterhouse, and further extended in 1930s
A hotel since 1987 it was renamed 'The Principal Manchester' in November
2016.