Looking into Greengate …… on a sunny day in July

I have been returning to this spot over the decades.

Looking into Greengate, 2022

For a long time, the view remained unchanged.

To the right was the car park, home to what had once been Exchange Railway Station, while to the left there was the bus terminus and directly ahead the low-rise buildings of Greengate.

More recently I have returned more regularly to chart the rise of the new developments which have created ever taller buildings which seem to rise effortlessly to the sky.

Looking into Greengate, 1980

It led a friend to remark that the boundary between the two cities was becoming ever more indistinct and the buildings indistinguishable.

There is some truth in that observation, but the Victorian and Edwardian developers were no less ruthless and similar in their actions at producing buildings with a uniform design, and would no doubt have embraced ever tall structures had the technology been there.

Location; looking into Greengate 

Picture; Looking into Greengate, 2022, and in 1980, m66776, courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council,  http://images.manchester.gov.uk/index.php?session=pass