Now the thing about Salford Quays is that it is all glass and surprises.
Which means, that pretty much every time I wander down there a new glass and steel building has gone up or about to with even more to come.
The place seems full of of cranes and half finished developments which come in lots of different shapes and sizes.
And this Friday I added another to the list of ones that weren’t there last time I was at Media City.
It’s called the Alchemist and is indeed all glass and steel topped with a golden roof.
It stands on that stretch of land which runs back from the Quays to the water and has the Lowry to one side and Media City on the other.
I remember the plot as an empty expanse which for a while was home to a temporary showroom and then reverted to nothing until blue wooden walls went up with signs announcing “Media City UK” “Where brilliance happens.”
The few who sat waiting for a bus under the shelter by those blue walls may have pondered on what was going on behind them but I never did.
I showed no interest and certainly didn’t think it warranted a picture, but now I wish I had snapped away, if only to mark the change from open space to an interesting building which mixes shapes, and glass with that striking gold roof.
When passed there were people inside and it looked open for business serving up cocktails. and food.
And that has to be more of an attraction than the windy space that was there before.
Critics might object that the free view across the water to the Imperial War Museum North has been lost but I bet there is an equally interesting view from the platform that juts out into the basis with the added attraction of a glass of something.
And the rest I am told will be a painting by my old chum Peter Topping.
But no sooner had this story been posted and quick as a flash Antony added one of his pictures of the site under construction.
It perfectly points up that simple observation that you should always carry a camera and always record what is going on around you.
After all without all those Victorian and Edwardian photographs there would be fewer opportunities for people to post old scenes of our towns and cities in a time before now.
And not to be outdone, just minutes later Paul contributed this fine pictures of the new bar which I like, adding, "the latest surprise I saw yesterday was the changed view across the water, now they've opened the Alchemist."
It was taken yesterday when the sun was kinder than on the day I was there and in between those heavy rain showers.
And that really is it.
Location; Salford
Pictures; Salford Quays, 2017 and 2014 from the collection of Andrew Simpson and the construction of the new Alchemist, 2016 and remaining two, courtesy of Antony Mills and in 2017 from Paul Sherlock
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| All glass .............. 2017 |
The place seems full of of cranes and half finished developments which come in lots of different shapes and sizes.
And this Friday I added another to the list of ones that weren’t there last time I was at Media City.
It’s called the Alchemist and is indeed all glass and steel topped with a golden roof.
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| The space between the Lowry and Media City, 2014 |
I remember the plot as an empty expanse which for a while was home to a temporary showroom and then reverted to nothing until blue wooden walls went up with signs announcing “Media City UK” “Where brilliance happens.”
The few who sat waiting for a bus under the shelter by those blue walls may have pondered on what was going on behind them but I never did.
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| The Alchemist, 2017 |
When passed there were people inside and it looked open for business serving up cocktails. and food.
And that has to be more of an attraction than the windy space that was there before.
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| A balcony to view the surroundings, 2017 |
And the rest I am told will be a painting by my old chum Peter Topping.
But no sooner had this story been posted and quick as a flash Antony added one of his pictures of the site under construction.
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| All blue walls, an empty site and a promise of things to come, 2016 |
After all without all those Victorian and Edwardian photographs there would be fewer opportunities for people to post old scenes of our towns and cities in a time before now.
And not to be outdone, just minutes later Paul contributed this fine pictures of the new bar which I like, adding, "the latest surprise I saw yesterday was the changed view across the water, now they've opened the Alchemist."
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| Across the water, 2017 |
And that really is it.
Location; Salford
Pictures; Salford Quays, 2017 and 2014 from the collection of Andrew Simpson and the construction of the new Alchemist, 2016 and remaining two, courtesy of Antony Mills and in 2017 from Paul Sherlock
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