The beauty of Manchester

acton28 said:
Sadly the title may cause those looking for a more Page 3 in The Sun to look away.
Manchester, and its towns sometimes gets mocked and sneered at, even by Mancs. I've been away from the City for almost 3 years, and lived overseas for 8.5 years. Not showing off. Been homesick as hell.
Recently, I walked from Newton Heath to Levenshulme and only had a handful of roads to cross. 2 in the Heath, 1 by Philips Park, 1 on the Fallowfield loopline... was quite amazed, you can still walk so far traffic-free in Manchester.

Also, met a group who explore abandoned buildings, and found a few secret haunts of Manchester.

So, Etihad aside, where's your garden of Eden or place of interest in Mancunia?
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Donner Summers. Does the best vegan kebabs in all of manchester and I go there to hang out. Right by Oxford road train station if your interested
 
FamilyStandUltra said:
Donner Summers. Does the best vegan kebabs in all of manchester and I go there to hang out. Right by Oxford road train station if your interested
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May give it a gander. Walked from Newton Heath to Levenshulme today with the furball. Crossed just 4 roads on the entire wander. Clayton Vale to Philips Park to the Ashton Canal then the old railway that spurs off by the chemical works, down through Gorton and onto the Fallowfield Loop.

The Secret Lake looked grand in the early fading sunlight. The green clouds under the National Cycling Centre bridge, less so. They should fill in under the bridge.

Some lovely autumn trees around now. Might need that kebab now.
 
jimharri said:
It's my home city, and has a special place in my heart. Are parts of Manchester shitholes? Undoubtedly. People will sneer and mock, but Moss Side and Longsight were totally different areas to what they've become now, when I was growing up back in the 70s. It sounds corny as fuck, but there was a sense of neighbourliness back then. I suppose the riots in '81 (was it?) changed everything. As for places of beauty; I suppose the obvious ones, namely Heaton Pk and Lyme Park (though that's probably Cheshire, as is Alderley Edge).
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Not forgetting Bogart Hole Clough.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
That’s my favourite city centre building n’all.

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Lovely video that. It evoked memories of my first job after school, working as a clerical assistant at Refuge, in 1979. I've been past the building many times since, but not been inside. I've determined to pay a visit very soon.

I remember a lot of the places featured in the film. Fond memories of playing table tennis in the basement during our breaks. My colleagues programmed a golf game on an early programmable calculator.

My brother worked in the building opposite, for PZ. He once told our dad that he had taken a couple of days leave when in fact he had been suspended for throwing a filing cabinet out of the top window into the River Medlock, below.
 
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