What Andy saw on Saturday ……………

Now the recent spate of building developments has changed forever the city sky line, and will continue to do so.

The last time there was such a wholesale change to the city centre will have been in the late Victorian and Edwardian period, when there was the last series of impressive “show warehouses” were built along with the great slabs of office buildings which once shouted out the predominance of the commercial and business sector of Manchester’s economy.

And now much the same is happening again from the office blocks of Spinnyfields, to the high rise developments which are going up everywhere from the Chester Road corridor to Ancoats and the old Redbank and Strangeways areas of the city.

To these can be added the equally tall apartment blocks of Salford and the Quays.

All of which Andy Robertson has recorded over the last decade, and earlier in the week he sent over these with the comments, “was going to wander into Water St/Quay St but it started to rain! The last picture is part of a future series, ‘Spot St George's’”

I rather like the four and while I can’t bring myself to think some of them are of merit, they underline that simple observation that the city is busy reinventing itself.

To which the cynic might add that city is busy reinventing itself, driven by property developers, all of which is as it has always been.




Location; Manchester,

Pictures, what Andy saw on a wet Saturday in Manchester, 2019, from the collection of Andy Robertson