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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,River Irwell,old,riverside,boozer,sign,closed,Manchester,history,M3 5EJ,M3,Heineken,former,restaurant,lost,hospitality,Greater Manchester,frontage,urban,regeneration,historic,public house,local,landmark,waterside,drinking,abandoned,city,centre,edge,New Bailey,Spinningfields,view,Victorian,hero,rescue story,drowned,river rescues
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EJD0F2 - This close-up editorial image shows the pub sign for The Mark Addy, the former riverside public house and restaurant beside the River Irwell on Stanley Street in Salford. The sign stands against a clear blue sky, with modern glass buildings and older red-brick industrial architecture behind it, placing the image in the changing cityscape between Salford and Manchester. The picture is useful for illustrating lost pubs, closed hospitality venues, riverside regeneration, urban change, beer branding, Heineken signage and the relationship between new development and older local landmarks.
The Mark Addy was named after Mark Addy, a Victorian Salford oarsman and publican remembered for rescuing more than 50 people from the dangerous and heavily polluted River Irwell. Its position beside the water made the name unusually apt, turning a river rescue story into a well-known pub identity. The venue opened in the early 1980s and became a distinctive Salford drinking and dining spot, partly because of its sunken waterside setting, terrace views and proximity to Manchester city stock-photo/gotonysmith-Centre.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>centre.
The pub later gained a strong food reputation when chef Robert Owen Brown became associated with it, helping it become one of the better-known modern British and northern food destinations in the city region. Reports and listings describe the site as closed, with CAMRA noting long-term closure from December 2015 and local coverage linking the decline to flooding, repair costs and the practical difficulty of maintaining a low-lying venue by the Irwell. As a result, the image can support stories about climate risk, flood damage, hospitality economics, independent restaurants, forgotten Salford institutions and memories of pre-regeneration nightlife.
For stock use, the readable sign gives immediate subject recognition, while the background contrast adds wider themes of gentrification, river corridors, city centre expansion, heritage loss, public memory and Salford's evolving identity
The Mark Addy, Stanley Street, Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK, M3 5EJ

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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,front,office,Liverpool Road,North West,England,UK,upper,Barton St,Manchester,M3 4NN,M3,Campfield Studios Manchester,Campfield Market Hall,Castlefield Manchester,Liverpool Road Manchester,Victorian market hall,industrial heritage building,repurposed industrial building,historic market hall exterior,Manchester city centre,former science and industry building,iron and glass architecture,heritage regeneration Manchester,Castlefield conservation area,Victorian engineering,nineteenth century architecture,historic Manchester buildings,adaptive reuse architecture,cultural venue Manchester,events venue exterior,regeneration project,urban renewal,heritage facade,listed building Manchester,streetscape Manchester,Andy Burnham,mayor
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3CPAXFH - This photograph shows the exterior of Campfield Studios, located on Liverpool Road in the Castlefield district of Manchester city centre. The building is the former Campfield Market Hall, a substantial Victorian iron-and-glass structure dating from the late nineteenth century, designed to support Manchester's role as a global centre of industry, trade, and transport during the industrial revolution.
The hall stands immediately adjacent to the Liverpool Road railway corridor, home to the world's first passenger railway station and later the core site of the Science and Industry Museum. Its architecture reflects classic Victorian engineering, with decorative iron columns, glazed sections, and a symmetrical facade that was originally intended to accommodate covered markets and storage linked to canal and rail traffic in the surrounding area.
After decades of industrial decline and underuse, the building has been carefully restored and repurposed as Campfield Studios, a modern cultural and events venue. The retained historic frontage, signage, and structural details illustrate Manchester's approach to heritage-led regeneration, where former industrial and science buildings are adapted for contemporary uses while preserving their architectural character.
Taken in daylight with light cloud cover, the image captures the building as part of the evolving Manchester streetscape, highlighting both its Victorian origins and its modern identity. Campfield Studios now forms an important part of Castlefield's wider regeneration, sitting alongside museums, canals, offices, and residential developments, and symbolising the city's transition from industrial powerhouse to a centre for culture, leisure, and creative industries.
Campfield Studios, Liverpool Road, Castlefield, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK , M3 4JR

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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3CPAXHJ - This image shows the interior of Campfield Studios, located on Liverpool Road in the Castlefield area of Manchester city centre. The building forms part of the historic Campfield Market Hall complex, a substantial Victorian iron-and-glass structure originally developed in the late nineteenth century to support Manchester's booming industrial economy. The wider site sits alongside the world-famous Liverpool Road railway buildings, closely linked to the early development of the Science and Industry Museum and Manchester's role as the birthplace of the industrial revolution.
Originally designed as a covered market and storage space serving the surrounding canals, railways, and warehouses, the hall later fell into decline as industrial uses moved on. In recent years it has been sensitively regenerated and reborn as Campfield Studios, a flexible cultural and events venue that blends historic industrial architecture with modern hospitality and performance spaces.
The photograph captures the hall in active use, filled with people attending a live music and social event. Temporary bars, food stalls, and performance equipment sit beneath the exposed iron columns and high roof structure, highlighting the adaptive reuse of the space. The mix of seated and standing visitors reflects the building's modern role as a community hub for markets, concerts, exhibitions, and social gatherings, while the original Victorian engineering remains clearly visible.
Taken during warmer months, with light flooding in through large windows and open entrances, the scene illustrates Manchester's ongoing regeneration of its industrial heritage. Campfield Studios stands as a strong example of how historic science and industry buildings in northern England have been successfully repurposed for contemporary urban life, culture, and leisure, while retaining a strong sense of place and historical continuity.
Campfield Studios, Liverpool Road, Castlefield, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK Postcode

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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3CPAXHR - This image shows the interior of Campfield Studios, located on Liverpool Road in the Castlefield area of Manchester city centre. The building forms part of the historic Campfield Market Hall complex, a substantial Victorian iron-and-glass structure originally developed in the late nineteenth century to support Manchester's booming industrial economy. The wider site sits alongside the world-famous Liverpool Road railway buildings, closely linked to the early development of the Science and Industry Museum and Manchester's role as the birthplace of the industrial revolution.
Originally designed as a covered market and storage space serving the surrounding canals, railways, and warehouses, the hall later fell into decline as industrial uses moved on. In recent years it has been sensitively regenerated and reborn as Campfield Studios, a flexible cultural and events venue that blends historic industrial architecture with modern hospitality and performance spaces.
The photograph captures the hall in active use, filled with people attending a live music and social event. Temporary bars, food stalls, and performance equipment sit beneath the exposed iron columns and high roof structure, highlighting the adaptive reuse of the space. The mix of seated and standing visitors reflects the building's modern role as a community hub for markets, concerts, exhibitions, and social gatherings, while the original Victorian engineering remains clearly visible.
Taken during warmer months, with light flooding in through large windows and open entrances, the scene illustrates Manchester's ongoing regeneration of its industrial heritage. Campfield Studios stands as a strong example of how historic science and industry buildings in northern England have been successfully repurposed for contemporary urban life, culture, and leisure, while retaining a strong sense of place and historical continuity.
Campfield Studios, Liverpool Road, Castlefield, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK Postcode

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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,history,historic,heritage,Victoria Station,rail,inside,interior,stations,tiled,tile,tilin,diagrams,Victoria Station Approach,Manchester,M3 1WY,M3,Chorley,Bolton,Oldham,Bury,Rochdale,red,black,lines,rails,route,routes,Bacup,Darwen,Ashton,Stalybridge,Wigan
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RXX27J - Taken on 25 Sep 2023, this photograph shows Victorian Manchester railways map, Victoria Station Approach, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1WY. The location is Victoria Station Approach, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1WY. The picture is not just a record shot: it contains platform, concourse or service signage details that place the railway scene in a real working transport environment. Manchester Victoria has long been part of the city's railway geography, with historic route maps and ticket-window details showing how rail travel has shaped Greater Manchester and the wider north west. It could support features on pubs, beer, leisure, nightlife, tourism, heritage streets, local economies, independent hospitality and the pressures facing town-centre venues. For image buyers, the value is in the combination of recognisable subject, readable wording, location evidence and a plain documentary style that can be dropped into news, magazine, web, council, housing, transport, heritage or commercial commentary without looking over-produced. Searchable related phrases include Manchester, city, centre, railway, Victoria, station, Lancashire and Yorkshire, diagram, maps, map, history, historic, plus wider ideas such as local identity, public realm, urban detail, social history, commercial change, everyday Britain, documentary photography and place-based storytelling. The composition gives designers scope for captions, page furniture, social media crops, report covers and article thumbnails, while the detailed captioning makes it more discoverable for searches using both specific place names and broader themes. Because the subject is clearly labelled or visually distinctive, it can also work well in search-led usage where the buyer needs immediate recognition at small web-preview size. Further SEO-friendly usage could include local services, town-centre change, heritage branding, Britis.
Victoria Station Approach, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1WY

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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,UK,England,the,rail,Salford,Manchester,Ordsall,Castlefield,railway,train,link,Ordsall Chord,M3,Water Street,M3 5FY,short,line,Victoria & Oxford Road,station,bridge,bridges,new,white elephant,Network Rail,sunny,Northern Hub,project,Northern Powerhouse,scheme,2017,passenger service,passenger services,infrastructure
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RG8YGF - Ordsall Chord, also known as the Castlefield Curve, is a short railway line in Ordsall, Salford, England, which links Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Oxford Road to Manchester Victoria, designed to increase capacity and reduce journey times into and through Manchester. It allows trains to run from Leeds, Newcastle and Redcar Central direct to Manchester Airport.
A chord was proposed in the late-1970s and parliamentary powers for its construction were received in 1979, but the project was cancelled. Network Rail revived the proposal in 2010 as part of its Northern Hub proposal. Funding for its construction totalling £85 million was announced in the 2011 United Kingdom budget and construction commenced in 2016. It became operational on 10 December 2017.
However its use since becoming operational has been limited as no additional capacity at Victoria, Oxford Road and Piccadilly has been built to cope with more through services
The first passenger service was at 08:40 on 10 December 2017: Manchester Victoria to Manchester Oxford Road followed by the return service continuing to Leeds.
It was envisaged that congestion at Manchester Piccadilly would reduce by a quarter, in part due to the reduced need for trains to cross the throat of the station, blocking other services. It was hoped there would be more frequent train services through Manchester.
However this has not yet materialised, particularly after the May 2018 timetable which created widespread disruption around Manchester. The Ordsall Chord's lack of use in comparison to its £100 million cost has been attributed to a lack of capacity at Piccadilly, Oxford Road and Victoria to cope with increased 'through' services that the Chord generates.
Chief Executive of Network Rail, Andrew Haines, remarked upon the inadequacies of the infrastructure to support the Ordsall Chord as part of a review in Network Rail's operations:
Water St, Salford, England, UK, M3 5FY

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Keywords: Hits,radio,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,M3,tram,trams,lightrail,passengers,commuter,commuters,service,route,routes,sunny,blue,sky,skies,city,centre,England,UK,M3 4LG,yellow,Manchester,TfGM,Metrolink,metro,Ashton,bound,at,stop,arrives,arriving,hub,GMex,platforms,livery
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RC95RD - Deansgate-Castlefield is a tram stop on Greater Manchester's Metrolink light rail system, on Deansgate in the Castlefield area of Manchester city centre. It opened on 27 April 1992 as G-Mex tram stop, taking its name from the adjacent G-Mex Centre, a concert, conference and exhibition venue
the G-Mex Centre was rebranded as Manchester Central in 2007, prompting the Metrolink stop to be renamed on 20 September 2010.[1] The station underwent redevelopment in 2014“15 to add an extra platform in preparation for the completion of the Second City Crossing in 2016“17.
Deansgate-Castlefield serves as a transport hub by integrating with National Rail services from Deansgate railway station by a footbridge. Exits from the station lead to the Great Northern Warehouse, the reconstructed Mamucium Roman Fort, the Beetham Tower, and Deansgate Locks. Part of Zone 1, the stop is one of the most used on the Metrolink network.
In August 2010 Metrolink announced it would be changing the name of the stop from 'G-Mex' to 'Deansgate-Castlefield'. On 2 September 2010, signs at the stop were changed to 'Deansgate-Castlefield'
a couple of days later temporary vinyl GMEX stickers were placed on top which were removed on 20 September 2010 when the name change was made.
Castlefield Deansgate, Manchester city centre, England, UK, M3 4LG

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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,Exchange Sq,grade II,listed,former,Victorian,Manchester,destination,eating,food,alternative communities,market,stalls,hotel,37 Hanging Ditch,37,Hanging Ditch,M4 3TR,M4,Victoria,history,historic,Corn Exchange Manchester,Corn Exchange,1,Exchange Square Central,High Street,M3 1BD,M3,night,outside,exterior,Exchange Square,restaurant,Cushman,corn laws
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2KG3PXY - Corn Exchange, Manchester is a grade II listed building in Manchester, England. The building was originally used as a corn exchange and was previously named the Corn & Produce Exchange, and subsequently The Triangle. Following the IRA bomb in 1996 it was renovated and was a modern shopping centre till 2014. The building was sold to investors and has been re-developed into a dining destination with food outlets
The first Corn Exchange built on this site in 1837 was designed by Richard Lane. This was demolished in 1897 and replaced in two sections between 1897 and 1903. Each section was designed by a different architect. Before 1837 it traded from Hanging Ditch. The Corn & Produce Exchange was the gathering spot for thousands of traders from all over the region. This continued until the economic depression of the 1920s and 1930s. Following the Second World War, trade gradually declined and the trading floor fell into disuse.
Until 1996 it was a gathering place for alternative communities and contained a large market with small stallholders selling clothes, jewellery and piercing paraphernalia, and second hand record shops
After being heavily damaged by the 1996 bomb many of these businesses were forced to move to new premises, mostly in the north of the city, where many foundered. The Corn Exchange was renovated and reopened as the Triangle Shopping Centre (because of its shape). Most of the Edwardian interior was replaced by high-class retail outlets including MUJI, a flagship Adidas store, O'Neill and Jigsaw, all of which have now closed.
In 2005, The Norwich Property Trust, the largest authorised commercial property unit trust in the UK, acquired the Triangle for £67m from American property company the Blackstone Group and its UK-based partners Milligan Retail Resorts International.
In 2012, The Triangle was relaunched as Corn Exchange, Manchester. Plans were revealed to convert the building into a food outlet and hotel. In 2014 work commenced by a demolition
37 Hanging Ditch, Exchange Sq, Manchester,England,UK, M4 3TR

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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,nicholson,pub,bars,M3,The,Old,Wellington,Inn,night,evening,dusk,Samuel,Smiths,Smith,sq,4 Cathedral Gates,Manchester,Greater Manchester,M3 1SW,oldest,historic,old,boozer,boozers,watering holes,best,at,drinkers,crowd,crowds,lit up,illuminated
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Shambles Square, 4 Cathedral Gates,Manchester, Greater Manchester, M3 1SW

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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2KG3RR7 - Corn Exchange, Manchester is a grade II listed building in Manchester, England. The building was originally used as a corn exchange and was previously named the Corn & Produce Exchange, and subsequently The Triangle. Following the IRA bomb in 1996 it was renovated and was a modern shopping centre till 2014. The building was sold to investors and has been re-developed into a dining destination with food outlets
The first Corn Exchange built on this site in 1837 was designed by Richard Lane. This was demolished in 1897 and replaced in two sections between 1897 and 1903. Each section was designed by a different architect. Before 1837 it traded from Hanging Ditch. The Corn & Produce Exchange was the gathering spot for thousands of traders from all over the region. This continued until the economic depression of the 1920s and 1930s. Following the Second World War, trade gradually declined and the trading floor fell into disuse.
Until 1996 it was a gathering place for alternative communities and contained a large market with small stallholders selling clothes, jewellery and piercing paraphernalia, and second hand record shops
After being heavily damaged by the 1996 bomb many of these businesses were forced to move to new premises, mostly in the north of the city, where many foundered. The Corn Exchange was renovated and reopened as the Triangle Shopping Centre (because of its shape). Most of the Edwardian interior was replaced by high-class retail outlets including MUJI, a flagship Adidas store, O'Neill and Jigsaw, all of which have now closed.
In 2005, The Norwich Property Trust, the largest authorised commercial property unit trust in the UK, acquired the Triangle for £67m from American property company the Blackstone Group and its UK-based partners Milligan Retail Resorts International.
In 2012, The Triangle was relaunched as Corn Exchange, Manchester. Plans were revealed to convert the building into a food outlet and hotel. In 2014 work commenced by a demolition
37 Hanging Ditch, Exchange Sq, Manchester,England,UK, M4 3TR

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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,nicholson,pub,bars,M3,The,Old,Wellington,Inn,night,evening,dusk,Samuel,Smiths,Smith,sq,4 Cathedral Gates,Manchester,Greater Manchester,M3 1SW,oldest,historic,old,boozer,boozers,watering holes,best,at,drinkers,crowd,crowds,lit up,illuminated
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Shambles Square, 4 Cathedral Gates,Manchester, Greater Manchester, M3 1SW

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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,M3,Manchester,Kendal,Milne & Co,Milne & Faulkner,Harrods,Watts,in,autumn,decorated,for,Christmas,Xmas,shoppers,customers,retail,high st,brand,redevelopment,store,Deansgate,M3 2GQ,lights,lit up,closing,closure,Investec,building,St Marys Parsonage,regeneration zone,Frasers,Mike Ashleys Sports Direct chain,site,sites,2022
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2KG3Y44 -
98-116 Deansgate, Manchester,England,UK, M3 2GQ

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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,old,routes,in,tiled,M3,rail,railway,Northern,Manchester,M3 1WY,Victorian,destinations,centre,Yorkshire,services,ferry,ferries,hit the north,map of Lancashire and Yorkshire,maps,northern powerhouse,northern,network,pre-Beeching,cuts,reduced,Edwardian station architecture,railway company history,UK transport history,historic rail infrastructure,industrial revolution legacy,regional rail expansion,pre-grouping railway company,public transport archive,preserved station feature,heritage tourism
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JY56YG - Historic ceramic tile route map of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway is displayed on an entrance wall inside Manchester Victoria railway station in Manchester, England. The large wall-mounted map is formed from white glazed tiles with black lettering, red railway lines and dark coastal silhouettes, creating a striking piece of preserved railway cartography within one of the city's major rail termini.
The map records the extensive railway system once operated by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway across northern England. Visible destinations and route points include Liverpool, Manchester, Preston, Blackburn, Burnley, Bolton, Oldham, Huddersfield, Leeds, York, Goole, Hull and Sheffield, with coastal and resort connections including Southport, Blackpool, Fleetwood, Barrow, Scarborough and Bridlington. The design shows how the company connected industrial towns, ports, seaside resorts and cross-Pennine communities before the later reorganisation of Britain's railways.
Manchester Victoria was opened in the nineteenth century and became closely associated with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. The surviving tiled map is an important piece of railwayana, combining practical route information, corporate identity and decorative public art. Historic England's listing for Victoria station specifically notes the surviving interior features, including mosaic decoration and a map of the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway system in tilework.
The image illustrates both transport heritage and the civic pride once invested in railway architecture. Unlike modern digital departure boards and simplified network diagrams, the tiled map presents rail geography as a permanent architectural feature. Its survival inside a working station gives passengers and visitors a direct visual link with the era of regional railway companies, steam-age travel and the commercial growth of Manchester and the wider north of England.
The photograph is suitable for editorial use covering BR
Victoria Railway Station, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1WY

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Keywords: Manchester,city,centre,Greater,England,UK,Sam Smiths,listed,building,buildings,watering,hole,holes,Sinclairs,Oyster,M3,M3 1SW,2,Kings Head Tavern 1807,pub,bar,bars,crowd,history,historic,drinkers,moved,reconstructed,Sammy,Smiths,the,Shambles,Sq,Square,and,Sinclair,British,English,tourist,attraction
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTD310 - The building that is now The Old Wellington Inn was built in 1552 next to Manchester's market square. In 1554, it was purchased by the Byrom family and became part residence and part drapers shop. The writer John Byrom was born there in 1692. The premises were licensed in 1862 and became the Vintners Arms, then the Kenyon Vaults and later The Old Wellington Inn. The building was extended in the 18th century to house John Shaw's Punch House which, as the name suggests, was licensed for the sale of strong alcoholic punch and became a meeting place for High Tories and possibly Jacobites
Shaw was master of the punch house for 58 years until he died in 1796 at the age of 83. After Shaw's death the punch house was kept by Peter Fearnhead, with the assistance of Molly under the same rules, until it was sold about ten years later to William Goodall, who had been the proprietor of the Fleece Tavern at the opposite end of the Old Shambles. The new landlord demolished part of the building and converted the rest into The King's Head Tavern in 1807. It later became known as Sinclair's, until oysters were introduced to the menu in 1845 and it became Sinclair's Oyster Bar, the name it retains to this day
In 1974, most of the old property between Shudehill and Market Street was demolished to accommodate the new Arndale Shopping Centre. The Old Shambles was underpinned with a concrete raft and, according to the Greater Manchester County Records Office, jacked-up 4 feet 9 inches to fit in with this development in the newly created Shambles Square
In June 1996, an IRA bomb exploded in nearby Corporation Street and badly damaged many of the surrounding buildings. The buildings were subsequently dismantled and moved 70 metres northwards to their present location, close to Manchester Cathedral, in 1999. The Old Wellington Inn and Sinclair's were rebuilt at 90 degrees to each other and joined together by a stone extension to form two sides of the new Shambles Square
2 Cathedral Gates, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1SW

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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,M3,Cheetham Hill,Manchester,England,UK,M3 1JA,brewer,brewery,arms,tap,bar,bars,community,brick,built,architecture,building,Derby Brewery Arms,heritage,Christie Hospital,North West,pub,history,Two Hoots,Mancunians,Mancunian,Victorian,bitter,cheap,chain,Manc,product,historic,operator,pubs
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTR42K - Joseph Holt is an English brewer of beer, founded in 1849 and remaining in the same family for six generations. The company is based in Manchester and owns 127 pubs in Greater Manchester and the North West. Its beers are supplied to over 500 locations nationally.
Brewery
Joseph Holt have brewed on their site in the Cheetham area, to the north of Manchester city centre, since 1860.[2] Ale and lager malts are now delivered in bulk loads and stored in silos while speciality malts continue to be delivered in sacks. Between 15 and 500 barrels (4,500 “ 150,000 pints) can be brewed per day, and a hopback is still in use, along with traditional whole leaf hops, to collect and clarify wort after boiling. All ales are top fermented in enclosed square fermenters using the historic Joseph Holt yeast strain, while lagers are fermented and conditioned in modern cylindroconical vessels. Joseph Holt have their own borehole on the brewery site to abstract brewing liquor (water) and are one of only a handful of brewers in the UK still to rack into 36 gallon casks, as well as hogsheads, the largest barrel size, carrying 432 pints (54 imperial gallons, 250 L) and weighing roughly 660 pounds (300 kg) when full.
History
Joseph Holt, the son of a weaver, was born in 1813 in Unsworth, a textile village near Bury. He worked as a carter at Harrison's Strangeways Brewery. In 1849 he married Catherine Parry, who helped finance a small brewery behind a pub on Oak Street, Manchester.
In 1860, he purchased the brewery site on Empire Street, Cheetham. His reputation in Manchester endures
in 2007, readers of the Manchester Evening News voted him People's Champion in the Greatest ever Business Leaders awards. In 1882, by which time he had established a chain of 20 public houses, Joseph passed control of the brewery to his son Edward. Edward Holt was later knighted, served as Lord Mayor of Manchester from 1907 to 1909 and was made a baronet in 1916.
Empire St, Cheetham Hill, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1JA

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Victoria Station Approach, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1WY

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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JY564E - Manchester Victoria station in Manchester, England is a combined mainline railway station and Metrolink tram stop. Situated to the north of the city centre on Hunts Bank, close to Manchester Cathedral, it adjoins Manchester Arena which was constructed on part of the former station site in the 1990s. Opened in 1844 and part of the Manchester station group, Victoria is Manchester's third busiest railway station after Piccadilly and Oxford Road and the second busiest station managed by Northern after Oxford Road.
The station hosts local and regional services to destinations in Northern England, such as Blackburn, Rochdale, Bradford, Leeds, Newcastle, Huddersfield, Halifax, Wigan, Southport, Blackpool (Sundays only) and Liverpool using the original Liverpool to Manchester line. Most trains calling at Victoria are operated by Northern. TransPennine Express services call at the station from Liverpool to Newcastle/Scarborough and services towards Manchester Airport (via the Ordsall Chord) from Middlesbrough/Redcar/Newcastle.
Manchester Victoria is a major interchange for the Metrolink light rail system. Two former railway lines into the station have been converted to tram operation: the line to Bury was converted in the early 1990s, in the first phase of Metrolink construction, and the line through Oldham to Rochdale was converted during 2009“2014. In the other direction, trams switch to on-street running when they emerge from Victoria Station and continue southwards through the city centre to Piccadilly or Deansgate-Castlefield.
Victoria Railway Station, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1WY

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Victoria Railway Station, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1WY

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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,shoppers,people,busy,crowd,crowded,M3,Manchester,England,UK,Centre,Selfridge,and,other,stores,store,&,shops,space,with,buildings,city,centre,architecture,building,retail,shopping,unit,units,town,of,crowds,Next,Next Store
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Exchange Square, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1BD

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Victoria St, Manchester,England, UK,M3 1SX

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Victoria St, Manchester,England, UK,M3 1SX

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Victoria St, Manchester,England, UK,M3 1SX

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Victoria Station Approach, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1WY

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Deansgate / Castlefields , Manchester, England, UK, M3 4LG

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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JGM7D3 - Panoramic view of Deansgate-Castlefield in Manchester, looking across Deansgate Locks, the railway viaduct, red brick railway arches, street junctions and modern high-rise residential towers under a partly cloudy blue sky. The image shows the layered character of this part of Manchester city centre, where nineteenth-century railway infrastructure, canal-side leisure uses and twenty-first-century skyline development sit close together. Deansgate Locks is the converted railway arch leisure area at the southern end of Deansgate on Whitworth Street West, near Deansgate-Castlefield Metrolink stop and the Rochdale Canal. The tall glass towers in the background are part of the wider Great Jackson Street and Deansgate Square high-rise cluster, a major residential and regeneration area on the southern edge of the city centre. This photograph is useful for editorial and commercial subjects including Manchester regeneration, urban skyline change, city living, high-rise apartments, leisure districts, transport infrastructure, tram and rail connections, canal heritage, architecture and the changing face of the North West's largest city centre. The scene combines historic red brick structures, modern glass towers, streets, traffic lights, pedestrian routes and city-centre public realm, making it suitable for stories about planning, development pressure, tall buildings, urban density, heritage contrast and inner-city leisure economies. The weather appears bright but changeable, with white and grey clouds, patches of blue sky and clear daylight giving the image an open, contemporary feel. It can also illustrate Deansgate-Castlefield as a gateway between Castlefield, Deansgate, First Street, Manchester Central, Oxford Road and the expanding residential skyline south of the city centre. The image works best as a broad Manchester cityscape and regeneration view rather than a single-property photograph.
Deansgate Castlefield, Manchester, 2 Whitworth St W, Deansgate, Locks, Manchester, England, UK, M1

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Deansgate Castlefield, Manchester, 2 Whitworth St W, Deansgate, Locks, Manchester, England, UK, M1

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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JGM7E8 - The Tower of Light is a 40-metre tall tower supporting and enclosing flues for a new low-carbon energy centre in Manchester's city centre. The biomimetic structure has built on the decade-long innovation and research, Shell Lace Structure, pioneered by Tonkin Liu and developed in collaboration with engineers at Arup. Learning from geometries in nature, the tower's form is its strength. The super-light, super-thin single-surface structure uses the least material to achieve the most. The tower is constructed from 6 and 8mm thick flat steel sheets, tailored, laser-cut, then welded together to create a curved stiff strong surface. Modern methods of construction using advanced digital modelling, analysis, and fabrication, combined with principles of tailoring, have made the Shell Lace Structure innovation possible. This is the largest built Shell Lace Structure to date.

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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADR2BD - The Old Wellington Inn is a half-timbered pub in Manchester city centre, England. It is part of Shambles Square, which was created in 1999, and is near Manchester Cathedral. It is a Grade II listed building
The oldest building of its kind in Manchester, the Old Wellington Inn was built in 1552 next to the market square which led off what is now Market Street, in what was known as the Shambles. In 1554 part of it became a draper's shop, owned by the Byrom family, and the writer John Byrom was born there in 1692. The building had a third storey added to it in the 17th century. In 1830 the building became a licensed public house, known as the Vintners Arms, and later the Kenyon Vaults. By 1865, the ground floor of the building was known as the Wellington Inn, while the upper floors were used by makers of mathematical and optical instruments. Later, in 1897, the upper floors were used as a fishing tackle shop, known as Ye Olde Fyshing Tackle Shoppe.
In the 1970s the Old Shambles was underpinned with a concrete raft and raised by 1.4 metres (55 in) designed by draughtsman Fred Kennedy, to fit in with the development of the Arndale Centre
the Inn was reopened in 1981. It was damaged in the 1996 Manchester bombing, and was reopened in February 1997, with costs of £500,000 paid to repair the damage. However, in preparation for the city's development in the bomb's aftermath, it was decided that the building, alongside its neighbour Sinclair's Oyster Bar, should be dismantled and rebuilt 300 metres (980 ft) towards the cathedral to form Shambles Square. The move was completed by November 1999, when the pub reopened
4 Cathedral Gates Manchester, Greater Manchester,England, UK, M3 1SW

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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADR2BE - The Old Wellington Inn is a half-timbered pub in Manchester city centre, England. It is part of Shambles Square, which was created in 1999, and is near Manchester Cathedral. It is a Grade II listed building
The oldest building of its kind in Manchester, the Old Wellington Inn was built in 1552 next to the market square which led off what is now Market Street, in what was known as the Shambles. In 1554 part of it became a draper's shop, owned by the Byrom family, and the writer John Byrom was born there in 1692. The building had a third storey added to it in the 17th century. In 1830 the building became a licensed public house, known as the Vintners Arms, and later the Kenyon Vaults. By 1865, the ground floor of the building was known as the Wellington Inn, while the upper floors were used by makers of mathematical and optical instruments. Later, in 1897, the upper floors were used as a fishing tackle shop, known as Ye Olde Fyshing Tackle Shoppe.
In the 1970s the Old Shambles was underpinned with a concrete raft and raised by 1.4 metres (55 in) designed by draughtsman Fred Kennedy, to fit in with the development of the Arndale Centre
the Inn was reopened in 1981. It was damaged in the 1996 Manchester bombing, and was reopened in February 1997, with costs of £500,000 paid to repair the damage. However, in preparation for the city's development in the bomb's aftermath, it was decided that the building, alongside its neighbour Sinclair's Oyster Bar, should be dismantled and rebuilt 300 metres (980 ft) towards the cathedral to form Shambles Square. The move was completed by November 1999, when the pub reopened
4 Cathedral Gates Manchester, Greater Manchester,England, UK, M3 1SW

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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADR2BF - The Old Wellington Inn is a half-timbered pub in Manchester city centre, England. It is part of Shambles Square, which was created in 1999, and is near Manchester Cathedral. It is a Grade II listed building
The oldest building of its kind in Manchester, the Old Wellington Inn was built in 1552 next to the market square which led off what is now Market Street, in what was known as the Shambles. In 1554 part of it became a draper's shop, owned by the Byrom family, and the writer John Byrom was born there in 1692. The building had a third storey added to it in the 17th century. In 1830 the building became a licensed public house, known as the Vintners Arms, and later the Kenyon Vaults. By 1865, the ground floor of the building was known as the Wellington Inn, while the upper floors were used by makers of mathematical and optical instruments. Later, in 1897, the upper floors were used as a fishing tackle shop, known as Ye Olde Fyshing Tackle Shoppe.
In the 1970s the Old Shambles was underpinned with a concrete raft and raised by 1.4 metres (55 in) designed by draughtsman Fred Kennedy, to fit in with the development of the Arndale Centre
the Inn was reopened in 1981. It was damaged in the 1996 Manchester bombing, and was reopened in February 1997, with costs of £500,000 paid to repair the damage. However, in preparation for the city's development in the bomb's aftermath, it was decided that the building, alongside its neighbour Sinclair's Oyster Bar, should be dismantled and rebuilt 300 metres (980 ft) towards the cathedral to form Shambles Square. The move was completed by November 1999, when the pub reopened
4 Cathedral Gates Manchester, Greater Manchester,England, UK, M3 1SW

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2 Watson St, Manchester, England, UK, M3 4LP

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2 Watson St, Manchester, England, UK, M3 4LP

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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RPGEE6 - 1. Alan Turing (1912 “ 1954)
A highly influential mathematician and inventor in the development of theoretical computer science, credited for decrypting the German Enigma code during World War Two with his creation of the Turing machine. Turing moved to the University of Manchester after the war to work on software for one of the earliest stored-program computers, devising an experiment called the Turing Test addressing the problem of artificial intelligence.
2. Maxine Peake (1974 “ present)
A Bolton-born film and television actress known for her talent and versatility, appearing in popular shows such as Dinnerladies, Shameless, and Three Girls among many others, as well as being a renowned feminist and socialist.
3. Emmeline Pankhurst (1858 “ 1928)
A leading women's rights and political activist, who led the British Suffragettes Movement which famously helped women win the right to vote in 1918.
4. LS Lowry (1887 “ 1976)
Stretford-born Lowry was a highly successful post-war artist famous for painting urban scenes and industrial landscapes chronicling 20th Century city life, and enjoying a grassroots popularity known by few other artists due to his down-to-earth paintings and nature.
5. Ian McKellen (1939 “ present)
An actor famous for his roles in blockbuster films such as Lord of the Rings and X-Men, as well as being a renowned activist continually championing the LGBT social movement worldwide. Born and bred in Manchester, McKellen regularly returns to Bolton School to give talks and Bolton Little Theatre, of which he is now a patron.
6. Victoria Wood (1953 “ 2016)
A comedian, writer and actress, noted for her skills in observing culture and in satirising social classes with her unique and accessible humour hailed as a product of her northern roots.
7. Tony Wilson (1950 “ 2007)
Radio presenter and record label owner who founded the legendary Factory Records, and credited as the man behind some of Manchester's most successful bands including Joy Division

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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RPGEE8 - 1. Alan Turing (1912 “ 1954)
A highly influential mathematician and inventor in the development of theoretical computer science, credited for decrypting the German Enigma code during World War Two with his creation of the Turing machine. Turing moved to the University of Manchester after the war to work on software for one of the earliest stored-program computers, devising an experiment called the Turing Test addressing the problem of artificial intelligence.
2. Maxine Peake (1974 “ present)
A Bolton-born film and television actress known for her talent and versatility, appearing in popular shows such as Dinnerladies, Shameless, and Three Girls among many others, as well as being a renowned feminist and socialist.
3. Emmeline Pankhurst (1858 “ 1928)
A leading women's rights and political activist, who led the British Suffragettes Movement which famously helped women win the right to vote in 1918.
4. LS Lowry (1887 “ 1976)
Stretford-born Lowry was a highly successful post-war artist famous for painting urban scenes and industrial landscapes chronicling 20th Century city life, and enjoying a grassroots popularity known by few other artists due to his down-to-earth paintings and nature.
5. Ian McKellen (1939 “ present)
An actor famous for his roles in blockbuster films such as Lord of the Rings and X-Men, as well as being a renowned activist continually championing the LGBT social movement worldwide. Born and bred in Manchester, McKellen regularly returns to Bolton School to give talks and Bolton Little Theatre, of which he is now a patron.
6. Victoria Wood (1953 “ 2016)
A comedian, writer and actress, noted for her skills in observing culture and in satirising social classes with her unique and accessible humour hailed as a product of her northern roots.
7. Tony Wilson (1950 “ 2007)
Radio presenter and record label owner who founded the legendary Factory Records, and credited as the man behind some of Manchester's most successful bands including Joy Division

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1, Exchange Square Central, High St, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1BD

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1, Exchange Square Central, High St, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1BD

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Exchange Square, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1BD

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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy MNFTG5 - Manchester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Mary, St Denys and St George, in Manchester, England, is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Manchester, seat of the Bishop of Manchester and the city's parish church. It is on Victoria Street in Manchester city centre and is a grade I listed building.
The former parish church was rebuilt in the Perpendicular Gothic style in the years following the foundation of the collegiate body in 1421. Then at the end of the 15th century, James Stanley II (warden 1485“1506 and later Bishop of Ely 1506“1515) was responsible for rebuilding the nave and collegiate choir with high clerestory windows
also commissioning the late-medieval wooden internal furnishings, including the pulpitum, choir stalls and the nave roof supported by angels with gilded instruments. The collegiate church became the cathedral of the new Diocese of Manchester in 1847. It was extensively refaced, restored and extended in the Victorian period, and again following bomb damage during World War II. It is one of fifteen Grade I listed buildings in Manchester.
Victoria St, Manchester , England, UK, M3 1SX

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Victoria St, Manchester , England, UK, M3 1SX

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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy MNFTH9 - Manchester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Mary, St Denys and St George, in Manchester, England, is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Manchester, seat of the Bishop of Manchester and the city's parish church. It is on Victoria Street in Manchester city centre and is a grade I listed building.
The former parish church was rebuilt in the Perpendicular Gothic style in the years following the foundation of the collegiate body in 1421. Then at the end of the 15th century, James Stanley II (warden 1485“1506 and later Bishop of Ely 1506“1515) was responsible for rebuilding the nave and collegiate choir with high clerestory windows
also commissioning the late-medieval wooden internal furnishings, including the pulpitum, choir stalls and the nave roof supported by angels with gilded instruments. The collegiate church became the cathedral of the new Diocese of Manchester in 1847. It was extensively refaced, restored and extended in the Victorian period, and again following bomb damage during World War II. It is one of fifteen Grade I listed buildings in Manchester.
Victoria St, Manchester , England, UK, M3 1SX

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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H4EDMC - Duke's Lock - Lock 92 on the Rochdale Canal
The Rochdale Canal runs for 32 miles from its junction with the Calder and Hebble Navigation at Sowerby Bridge in West Yorkshire to its junction with the Bridgewater Canal in Castlefield. Originally, the canal terminated in Dale Steet in the centre of Manchester (see below) because the Duke of Bridgewater refused to agree to it joining with his Bridgewater Canal.
However, faced with competition from other canals he changed his mind and the Rochdale Canal was extended into Castlefield and The Duke's Lock - lock 92, facilitated the connection between the two canals. A lock keepers cottage was built beside Lock 92 and it is still there today.
The 1863 Manchester and Salford Directory lists a John William Smith, living at Lock House, whose job was toll collector.
18-25 Castle St, Manchester, England, UK M3 4LZ

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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H4EDMN - Duke's Lock - Lock 92 on the Rochdale Canal
The Rochdale Canal runs for 32 miles from its junction with the Calder and Hebble Navigation at Sowerby Bridge in West Yorkshire to its junction with the Bridgewater Canal in Castlefield. Originally, the canal terminated in Dale Steet in the centre of Manchester (see below) because the Duke of Bridgewater refused to agree to it joining with his Bridgewater Canal.
However, faced with competition from other canals he changed his mind and the Rochdale Canal was extended into Castlefield and The Duke's Lock - lock 92, facilitated the connection between the two canals. A lock keepers cottage was built beside Lock 92 and it is still there today.
The 1863 Manchester and Salford Directory lists a John William Smith, living at Lock House, whose job was toll collector.
18-25 Castle St, Manchester, England, UK M3 4LZ

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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H4EDRG - The John Rylands Library is a late-Victorian neo-Gothic building on Deansgate in Manchester, England. The library, which opened to the public in 1900, was founded by Enriqueta Augustina Rylands in memory of her husband, John Rylands.
150 Deansgate, Manchester, England, UK M3 3EH

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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy FDNJR0 - Metrolink (also known as Manchester Metrolink) is a light rail tram system in Greater Manchester, England. The system is owned by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and operated and maintained under contract by RATP Group. In 2015/16, 34.3 million passenger journeys were made on the system.
The network consists of seven lines which radiate from Manchester city centre to termini at Altrincham, Ashton-under-Lyne, Bury, East Didsbury, Eccles, Manchester Airport and Rochdale. Metrolink has 93 stops along 57 miles (92 km) of standard-gauge track making it the largest light rail system in the United Kingdom. It consists of a mixture of on-street track shared with other traffic
reserved track, segregated from other traffic, often running alongside the roadway or in the central reservation, and converted former railway lines. It is operated by a fleet of Bombardier Flexity Swift M5000s.
A light rail system for Greater Manchester emerged from the failure of the 1970s Picc-Vic tunnel scheme to obtain central government funding. A light-rail scheme was proposed in 1982 as the least expensive rail-based transport solution for Manchester city centre and the surrounding Greater Manchester metropolitan area. Government approval was granted in 1988 and the network began operating services between Bury Interchange and Victoria on 6 April 1992, becoming the United Kingdom's first modern street-running rail system
the 1885-built Blackpool tramway being the only heritage tram system in the UK that had survived up to Metrolink's creation.
Castlefield/Deansgate station, Manchester, England, UK, M3 4LG

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Victoria St, Manchester , England, UK, M3 1SX

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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DN6N9E - James Moorhouse (19 November 1826 “ 9 April 1915) was an Anglican bishop of Melbourne and of Manchester, and a chancellor of the University of Melbourne
Victoria St, Manchester , England, UK, M3 1SX

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John Rylands Research Institute and Library, 150 Deansgate, Manchester, England, UK, M3 3EH

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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PP0NP9 - G-Mex is to the rear of the G-Mex Centre (Greater Manchester Exhibtion Centre). This opened in 1986, following conversion from the former Manchester Central station which had closed in 1969. The tram stop sits at southern edge of the former station throat, and the Altrincham/Eccles line travels south from here along the former Cheshire Lines Committee viaduct.
The platforms here are staggered”the end of each platform marks the point where trams switch between street running mode and segregated running mode. There is a footbridge over Whitworth Street, connecting G-Mex and its tram stop to Deansgate railway station, which sits atop a parallel viaduct
Deansgate Castlefield, central Manchester, England, UK, M3 4LG

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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HD4R - The John Rylands Library is a late-Victorian neo-Gothic building on Deansgate in Manchester, England. The library, which opened to the public in 1900, was founded by Enriqueta Augustina Rylands in memory of her husband, John Rylands. The John Rylands Library and the library of the University of Manchester merged in July 1972 into the John Rylands University Library of Manchester
today it is part of The University of Manchester Library.
Special collections built up by both libraries were progressively concentrated in the Deansgate building. The special collections, believed to be among the largest in the United Kingdom, include medieval illuminated manuscripts and examples of early European printing, including a Gutenberg Bible, the second largest collection of printing by William Caxton, and the most extensive collection of the editions of the Aldine Press of Venice. The Rylands Library Papyrus P52 has a claim to be the earliest extant New Testament text. The library holds personal papers and letters of notable figures, among them Elizabeth Gaskell and John Dalton.
The architectural style is primarily neo-Gothic with elements of Arts and Crafts Movement in the ornate and imposing gatehouse facing Deansgate which dominates the surrounding streetscape. The library, granted Grade I listed status in 1994, is maintained by the University of Manchester and open for library readers and visitors.
150 Deansgate, Manchester, England, UK, M3 3EH

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Victoria St, Manchester,England, UK,M3 1SX

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Victoria Railway Station, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1WY

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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H4EDRR - Keith Newstead's automaton of Mrs Rylands taking tea with a dragon sits inside the John Rylands Library on Deansgate, Manchester, bringing a sly comic flourish into one of the city's grandest scholarly interiors. The piece works because it feels deliberately absurd and completely at home: a poised Victorian-style seated figure, hands on the table, faces a copper-coloured dragon with hinged limbs, sharp teeth, striped tail and theatrical snout, as though a civilised afternoon tea has been interrupted by folklore. Newstead's automata are rooted in the British tradition of mechanical toys, penny arcade machines, hand-built craft and kinetic storytelling, where cranks, cams and levers turn small scenes into miniature performances. Here that tradition is placed against carved wood, display cases and the solemn Gothic Revival atmosphere of the Rylands, making the image useful for themes of museum interpretation, public engagement, eccentric British art, fantasy, libraries, education, heritage tourism and Manchester culture. Enriqueta Rylands founded the library in memory of her husband John Rylands, and the building opened to public readers in 1900 as a civic gift with rare books, manuscripts and archives at its heart. The automaton plays with that legacy by making the founder figure approachable, witty and human, not just a name attached to a major institution. It also shows how historic venues use imaginative objects to draw visitors into deeper stories about place, philanthropy, collecting and learning. The dragon gives the scene strong visual appeal for editorial uses around myths, storytelling, children's learning, creative engineering, craft mechanics, mechanical sculpture and visitor attractions. Photographed indoors under warm display lighting, the image captures a close, theatrical encounter between bookish Manchester, Victorian memory and Newstead's playful mechanical imagination
150 Deansgate, Manchester M3 3EH




