Manchester

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BATSFORD'S
Manchester
THEN AND NOW
Manchester Then and Now brings together rare archive images of this impressive city and pairs them with new photographs showing the same sites as they appear today. All of Manchester's landmarks are here, including the Town Hall, Manchester Central, the Royal Exchange, the Quays, the City of Manchester Stádium, Heaton Park and Manchester Cathedral.
Manchester is a fascinating city, if not a traditionally good-looking one. Chris Lethbridge, writing in 1994, captured this perfectly: 'By no stretch of the imagination is Manchester a picturesque city. It is, however, emphatically if unconventionally beautiful. In common with all things beautiful it is fundamentally flawed. It has a compulsion to preen and show off. It is narcissistic, contrary and wayward, and yet you cannot help but love it. It is both admirable and maddening.'
Manchester is no chocolate-box, half-timbered town for those in search of the twee, it's a powerhouse of achievement... Tovább

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BATSFORD'S
Manchester
THEN AND NOW
Manchester Then and Now brings together rare archive images of this impressive city and pairs them with new photographs showing the same sites as they appear today. All of Manchester's landmarks are here, including the Town Hall, Manchester Central, the Royal Exchange, the Quays, the City of Manchester Stádium, Heaton Park and Manchester Cathedral.
Manchester is a fascinating city, if not a traditionally good-looking one. Chris Lethbridge, writing in 1994, captured this perfectly: 'By no stretch of the imagination is Manchester a picturesque city. It is, however, emphatically if unconventionally beautiful. In common with all things beautiful it is fundamentally flawed. It has a compulsion to preen and show off. It is narcissistic, contrary and wayward, and yet you cannot help but love it. It is both admirable and maddening.'
Manchester is no chocolate-box, half-timbered town for those in search of the twee, it's a powerhouse of achievement and humán endeavour. There's a power and a magic here all its own. This book captures that. By showcasing city monuments and sites and contrasting them, past and present, a clear picture can be förmed of what makes Manchester tick.
Historical episodes are captured, including the blitz and the building booms (following the opening of the Manchester Ship Canal and again in the 1960s) as well as the rebuilding after the 1996 IRA bomb.
The people of Manchester are a big part of its appeal and this book shows the many faces of the city, especially in the packed city Street scenes. There are many classic archive shots here, of such good quality you might feel as though you could walk into them and stroll down those Edwardian and Victorian streets.
Somé of the photos will surprise you, somé will charm you - they'll all show how solid the city is, yet how it's always changing. Decline and fali and rise again: Manchester started off sleepy, rose to nineteenth-century prominence, played a role on the world stage as a leader in engineering, art and thought before suffering decline in the late twentieth century followed by renaissance in recent years.
This is an epic tale, not an easy one - but then nothing worthwhile comes easy and Manchester's story, captured on these pages, is a hard but glorious one. Vissza