Those pipes down on Manchester Road ...... beside the swimming baths

Now I have always been impressed by these pipes but have never stopped to take a picture of them.

So I was pleased that Andy Robertson has done so and shared them with the blog.

They carry water from the Lake District and may just have been the target of enemy bombers during the nights of the Manchester Blitz, when a fair number of both fire bombs and high explosive bombs fell close by.

And for those who want more about the pipe, Neil Simpson sent me this, "the 'pipes' are part of the Manchester Ring Main feeding water from the Lake District all around Manchester."

There is a great map in this leaflet.
http://www.unitedutilities.com/documents/MRM_booklet.pdf 

Picture; from the collection of Andy Robertson