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Thursday 10 April 2008

TV drama filming, Stevenson Square, Manchester

As I passed Stevenson Square on my way home, at 5.30pm, a film crew was shooting a drama for Granada TV in the Koffee Pot cafe.

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Filed under: Manchester, TV & film — gary @ 5:21 pm
Monday 31 March 2008

Mysteries of Manchester City Council: part one in a series of ten billion billion

Tenants of Manchester City Council have a 13-digit tenancy reference number. Until recently this could be keyed into the City Council website to make a rent payment or taken along to the payments counter at the town hall. However this was obviously MUCH too easy for everybody.

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Filed under: Strange, Manchester — gary @ 6:32 pm
Wednesday 27 February 2008

Manchester earthquake

I was in the kitchen when the earthquake struck at 1am.

I could hear a sound like rubble falling inside the wall and then the room shook violently from side to side. The building was literally rocking. I’m about 70ft up on the top floor, so it was unnerving to say the least.

This was the biggest earthquake in the UK for nearly 25 years and was felt by people in Newcastle, Yorkshire, London, Manchester, the Midlands and Norfolk.

Filed under: Manchester — gary @ 4:56 am
Friday 22 February 2008

Student bus

A bus full of students on their way into Manchester city centre, passes through Rusholme.

Student bus, Rusholme, Manchester

Filed under: Manchester — gary @ 6:21 pm

How will Manchester fare if there’s a recession?

Walking around Ancoats recently I noticed how many of the buildings (many old cotton mills) are still empty. Some are semi-derelict, in other cases the shell has been tarted up a little, but not much done inside. It’s hard to know how many apartments in the converted and newly-built blocks are occupied. If it hasn’t been possible to ‘regenerate’ this area completely during the property boom of the last few years the question is: will it ever happen now?

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Filed under: Manchester, Politics — gary @ 12:58 pm
Thursday 21 February 2008

LGBT History Month: the 20th anniversary of the Section 28 Rally, at Manchester Central Library (video)

Well done to Manchester Libraries for the program of events they’re running for LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) History Month. My guess is they haven’t had much money to spend on this and I hope next year they will be given more. But they’ve put on some interesting events.

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Filed under: Posts that include video, Gay, Manchester, Politics — gary @ 5:03 pm
Tuesday 19 February 2008

Manchester television history disappears

A small piece of Manchester’s television history disappeared in November when the transmission tower was removed from the roof of the Granada TV office building.

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Filed under: Buildings, Manchester, TV & film — gary @ 8:15 pm

Hacienda apartments

I saw this sad ad in an estate agent’s window on Deansgate. In case you don’t know, the building that was The Hacienda nightclub was completely demolished in 2002. An apartment block was put up on the site and is now marketed as ‘The Hacienda’.

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Filed under: Buildings, Manchester — gary @ 2:53 pm

What people are asking this week (no. 789): The LGF

Why doesn’t the name of the LGF (or ‘Lesbian and Gay F**kwits’ as the poppets are known locally) include bisexual or transgender? Who could be dropped next? Lesbians perhaps?

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Filed under: Gay, Manchester, Politics — gary @ 1:53 pm
Monday 18 February 2008

Manchester Then and Now: Sackville Street, St. Luke’s Church, Chorlton On Medlock

Sackville Street used to run right down into the north-east part of Chorlton On Medlock. Though, in Victorian times, the southern part of the street was called Zara Street. Then, in the early 1960’s, the Mancunian Way (motorway) was built and sliced across the area from east to west.

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Filed under: Photography, History, Manchester — gary @ 9:14 pm
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