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The rows of Manchester
Paul Dobraszczyk, Manchester Terraces, 2017. Ink, watercolour, chalk, pencil, pen and gouache on paper. The opening title sequence of Coronation Street, Britain’s longest running soap opera, hasn’t...
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Cracks in the city: Manchester alleyways
They go by a variety of names; in common English parlance, they are alleyways, passages, lanes or paths; in regional variations, they are, to name but a few, jitties (West Midlands), jiggers...
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Back to black: Manchester smoke
Photograph of Ancoats in the 1890s On 16 October 2017, the sun turned a peculiar pinky shade of red, a product of Storm Ophelia whipping up Saharan sands as she approached the UK. The...
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Skyscraper deluxe: Manchester’s towers
Towers under construction near the Mancunian Way, Hulme Manchester, like many other cities today, has a fetish for tall buildings. Perhaps this is a result of the topography of the city centre,...
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Stronger together: the Manchester bee
Bee mural painted by Peter Barber in September 2017, Warwick Street, Northern Quarter For over 150 years, the bee has been a symbol of Manchester. The city’s coat of arms was given royal approval in...
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The Stones of Manchester
This month, I’ve finally published a website I’ve been building since February called The Stones of Manchester. It’s a photographic record I’ve created mainly over the last year of the metropolitan...
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Rainy city stories
From Northenden to Partington, it’s rain From Altrincham to Chadderton, it’s rain From Cheetham Hill to Wythenshawe, it’s rain Gorton, Salford, Sale, pretty much the same What makes Britain great...
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Magic portals into dreaming: Manchester’s public libraries
Stockport central library, funded by Andrew Carnegie, built from 1913-14 and designed by Bolton-based architects Bradshaw, Gass & Hope Of the numerous public libraries in Greater Manchester, no...
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Extinction Rebellion: remaking the city
The pink boat moored in Oxford Circus, 19 April 2019 With the alarming warning from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in late-2018 that we have only 12 years in which to act to avoid...
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Five lockdown paintings
Ever since the UK government imposed a nationwide lockdown on 23 March, I’ve been using the time to do more painting, something which I’ve only practised very intermittently since 2004. It’s...
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