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Yes Andrew, what are the chances?
And yes Alan, I know that's the wrong word.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 19.04.16 - 7:21 a.m. | #
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Were you being paid by the council to be nice about Piccadilly Gardens?
The Baby was actually the world's first stored program computer if you want to be pedantic.
Kirk | 19.04.16 - 7:51 a.m. | #
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Oh also, did you go to the new exhibition at the IWM North? I only ask because my brother has been up there putting things in cases for it.
Kirk | 19.04.16 - 7:52 a.m. | #
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Love the John Rylands Gallery
The Cathedral is worth more time - if it's accessible.
Piccadilly Gardens is dire.
David | 19.04.16 - 10:26 a.m. | #
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Urbis was a fascinating place in its urban museum role. Especially the simulator for how crowded it was on a train/Metrolink/tube!
The building also housed now defunct local TV channel, Channel M for a bit.
Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 19.04.16 - 10:30 a.m. | #
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How on earth can someone visit 10 such attractions in one day?!
I'd have done the Industrial Museum .
(Thanks for the report as always)
Joho
John "Joho" Maltby | 19.04.16 - 11:21 a.m. | #
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Are you talking to me?
MOSI is great. Good to have a list of other places to try to get to when I am in Manchester next.
Andrew | 19.04.16 - 12:34 p.m. | #
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Urbis was magnificent. I visited quite close to its last day in 2010, to mourn its demise, and enjoy its last big exhibition, "The Ghosts of Winter Hill", about the history of broadcasting in Manchester.
https://urbismanchester.wordpress.com/exhibitions/manchester-television-the-city-ghosts-of-winter-hill/
George | 19.04.16 - 2:25 p.m. | #
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Well that certainly changed my view of Manchester, looks worth a visit.
Michael | 19.04.16 - 3:23 p.m. | #
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The People's history museum was fantastic. I loved it. The Manchester Art Gallery was wonderful too. But whoever thought to put an interactive playroom / childminding centre in the atrium of an old building? The screams, thuds and shouts totally wrecked The possibility of deep comtemplation. Loved the Scottish room, though...
Antipodean | 19.04.16 - 4:24 p.m. | #
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Piccadilly Gardens is a disgrace. The original Victorian slightly sunken garden with park benches, lawns and rosebushes was ripped up, and one third sold off (to pay for the Commonwealth Games I think). The last time I was there, all the benches in the 'new' gardens were falling apart and suffering extensive wood rot. A row of temporary fibreglass male urinals had been lined up along one side and were leaking across the square. The council should be ashamed, as should be the users who trash the place.
JD | 19.04.16 - 11:25 p.m. | #
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One great museum worth visiting is the Museum of Transport at the rear of Queens Rd bus depot in Cheetham Hill, although as it costs £4 it would have been beyond the scope of your visit this time. A nice collection of old buses from all the nearby former municipal operators such as Oldham, Bury, Rochdale and Bolton, all beautifully restored. However on second thoughts DG, you probably had enough of MWLBs last year with all the bus celebration stuff
JD | 19.04.16 - 11:34 p.m. | #
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It's a fine place in parts, though certainly not including Piccadilly Gardens, not when I lived there 25 years back any more than now.
Second City though? That's a dubious claim and one that will turn many a provincial burgher against those who make it. Probably half a dozen places would make their own claims for that!
Alan McD | 21.04.16 - 11:53 p.m. | #
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After a hard days sightseeing we have a wide variety of top restaurants as well. It will be great when the second city crossing for the Metrolink is finished. Agree about Piccadilly Gardens though. Could do better although sadly the original gardens fell into disrepair
Rick | 27.04.16 - 9:29 p.m. | #
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