Manchester’s Changing Skyline

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Thanks, PC.

The clue is 'Werneth Low'. :-)

My golfing skills go as far as pitch and put, but I can walk around the course with a mates bag and irons and my camera.

The club is located to the south east of Manchester and enjoys glorious views of the Cheshire Plain, the Peak District National Park and the City of Manchester.

One Monday it is then, which is handy, as it's one of my days off work.

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A family friend runs that golf club. Great views up there.

 

[somapop]

There are up-lights on each side of the viaduct. Don’t know if they are all still working. They certainly don’t show the viaduct off properly. Stock pictures.

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Not sure they're all working tbf and they're B&Q security lights at best.

It's also filthy, grimy and with the customary buddleia growth adornments.
It could be such proud landmark with a bit of creative thought (and money).

 

[Dirty Harry]

Not sure they're all working tbf and they're B&Q security lights at best.

It's also filthy, grimy and with the customary buddleia growth adornments.
It could be such proud landmark with a bit of creative thought (and money).

It really is a shame, it really could be such a striking landmark, admittedly I have a bit of a soft spot as one of my granddads were born and raised pretty much underneath it on Heaton Lane back in the day.

 

[somapop]

It really is a shame, it really could be such a striking landmark, admittedly I have a bit of a soft spot as one of my granddads were born and raised pretty much underneath it on Heaton Lane back in the day.

Just hoping it's been thought about at the very least.

Stockport is starting to (finally) regenerate itself and this could be a real proud landmark it it's shown some consideration.
It's not as if they have to build a landmark from scratch - it's already there.

 

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Isn’t it the largest brick built viaduct in the world or something ?

When it was completed it was.

Work began in March 1839 and despite its scale and flooding from the Mersey, the viaduct was completed in December 1840 and services commenced the same month. Roughly 11 million bricks were used in its construction; at the time of its completion, it was the world's largest viaduct and a major feat of engineering.

Stockport Viaduct

Stockport Viaduct, carries the West Coast Main Line across the valley of the River Mersey in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. It is one of the largest brick structures in the United Kingdom,…

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You might do well in the hills around Bollington as well looking over the old Woodford aerospace plant.

Thanks. Another one to add to the list this Summer.

Alderley Edge, Lyme Park and *Merton Avenue* in Oldham (been up there) are great vantage points to view the Manchester skyline. See the link.

Eight more of Greater Manchester's best skyline views, according to a local photographer

What a city.

themanc.com

 

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Just hoping it's been thought about at the very least.

Stockport is starting to (finally) regenerate itself and this could be a real proud landmark it it's shown some consideration.
It's not as if they have to build a landmark from scratch - it's already there.

It is, but Mersey Square Shopping Centre will always blight Stockport.

 

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A family friend runs that golf club. Great views up there.

Nice one! If you’re up there in the coming months for whatever reason, it’s a nice day, you’ve got a bit of spare time, take a few skyline pictures please. Planning do just that, but not until the weather improves.

 

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