Manchester

St Peter's House, a fine example of 1950s architecture	Albert Square	Manchester's shiny new Arndale Centre	This corner of the Arndale still bears its original 1970s tiling...the rest of it has been modernised	Piccadilly Gardens
Arndale House	Roof of the Arndale	Roof of the Arndale	Household names	Manchester city centre is thriving
Rooftops	Rooftops	New bus station and the not-so-new CIS tower	Contrasting architecture	The Manchester skyline
Selfridges and the huge new Ferris wheel in Exchange Square, Manchester	Ferris wheel	Manchester's shiny new Arndale	More new shops	Fifties architecture near Quay Street
This has to be the most bizarre building in the country and embodies the spirit of optimism in the city centre. It's not luxury apartments or the HQ of some wacky advertising agency but a courts complex!	The road to Salford	Another view of the courts. It will be interesting to see what the public think of this in thirty years time	The quest for Salford city centre...	Nope, no sign of it
Definitely not this way	Luxury apartments but no sign of any city centre	Ah, the sign says go left	A derelict pub in Salford	The road to Salford (apparantly)
OK, go right here	High rise buildings in Manchester tower over these old railway viaducts	Very derelict pubs on the road to Salford	More derelict pubs	Dereliction
More dereliction	The Sky dish is the only sign of any life here	Ah, perhaps we are getting near the city centre now	Another derelict pub	Derelict building
Another derelict pub	Ah, at last, a pub that's open! I didn't dare go in though!	Salford	Salford University	At that stage, I gave up and headed back to Manchester itself
The Granada Studios	Massive queue outside the Granada studios which as strange as they closed to the public a few years ago...perhaps there was some special event/	This massive building is by far the tallest structure in Manchester and houses a hotel and yes, you've guessed it, luxury apartments	An old AC electric locomotive in Manchester's Museum of Science & Industry	The Hotel Piccadilly undergoing refurbishment work
Hotel Piccadilly	Massive new buildings near Piccadilly station

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