Manchester: City Centre - Thursday
New Islington, Whitworth St, Castlefield. Thu 2 Aug 2018
New Islington from the window of our hotel room
Towards central Manchester from the window at the end of the hotel
corridor
And one of the buildings visible in that view above from street leve
- Chapeltown Street
Piccadilly Village, built in 1980, ten years after we left Manchester,
from Chapeltown St
One of many Bees around the city
this commemorates Alan Turing and is next to his memorial in Sackville
park, Fairfield St,
He committed suicide in 1954 with an apple containing cyanide after
being hounded for being gay. His work in Cambridge and later from
1948 to
his death working at Manchester University made him recognised as the father
of modern computing and artificial intelligence
Office building on Whitworth St - now a hotel
Medlock Mill was built in 1801 as a cotton warehouse.. From 1982-2011 it
housed Percy Brothers - The Hotspur Press
City Road Inn, Albion St, and new buildings
Manchester's tallest building, Beetham Tower
Spanish Cultural Centre, Deansgate
Deansgate
Liverpool St - former railway warehouses
The Great Northern Warehouse connected the railway, roads and the Manchester
and Salford Junction Canal which ran underneath
Peter St - now a hotel
St Georges House, Peter St
Lily's Bar, Booth St
1868 building on the corner of Chancery Lane - and a Lutyens building
on King St
King St