28 September 2006, 6:44 pm

Piccadilly Place Development

Time for a photo showing the progress of the new building at the side of Piccadilly station in Manchester. The first one is from March 2006 & the second from September 2006.

Category: Main Blog

27 September 2006, 11:33 pm

Minimini

It was sooo small you could almost put it in your pocket! The first reduced size Mini i’ve seen, this one was in Central London last weekend.

Category: Photo Album

26 September 2006, 10:22 pm

I saw Tony in Manchester!

…Tony Benn, the ex-labour MP that is. There I was loitering on top of the reception counter at the UMIST students union when in he wandered, in a rather spritely way I thought. Apparently he was introducing some trade union evening in Club Underground which culminated with a free film showing on a related subject. For someone in his 80′s he seemed quite animated when chatting to people in the students union foyer…

I was there however for the lecture on Victorian Tunnelling methods… if it wasn’t for the 1/2 day CPD the Instuitution of Civil Engineers give me for going, I probably wouldn’t have bothered. I don’t know why the quality of lectures up north are so much worse than those down at the headquarters in London. I was glad I took a pint and newspaper in with me in the end…

Category: Main Blog

26 September 2006, 9:13 pm

Service Announcement

It’s amazing the pathetic lives people have, bombarding websites with Spam – i’m up to 40 spam comments in just the last 5 days (but the filters seem to be holding up just fine). So from now on (for the time being) EVERY comment will need to be personally moderated by me before it gets added to the website. Apologies to any legitimate commenters who i’m afraid will have to wait just a little longer to see their comments appear but it’s a step that’s required at the moment…

Category: Main Blog

25 September 2006, 7:16 pm

Manchester Architecture #30

Lombard Chambers, Corner of Chancery Lane / Brown Street, Manchester. (3 Images)    

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