Manchester A home to The Beacon of Hope, Tree of Light, and Alan Turing, and a regular venue for diverse and sundry Gay Village events, Sackville Gardens originated in 1880s. The City Council was so i...
Manchester This is a refined introduction to the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester’s prime venue for music events. Halle Orchestra performs here, and early in 2009 Bridgewater Hall was graced by the ...
Manchester – Arts & Entertainment – Landmarks The history of Greater Manchester Police is consecrated to Newton Street where the police headquarters used to be located in the Victorian...
Manchester The native of Bury, and the son of a rich calico manufacturer, Sir Robert Peel was the 19th c. Prime Minister whose long-lasting mark on the British history was in the form of a nickname fo...
Manchester Even back in the 18th c. King Street was about fashion, being developed as a hub of fashionable residence. Fastforward a couple of centuries, and King Street today is planted with diverse a...
Manchester When the statue of Abraham Lincoln by the American sculptor George Barnard was finally unveiled in Platt Fields park in Rusholme, a Manchester Guardian critic observed that, while London ha...
The Remains of Santa, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. Christmas Undone, Manchester It so happened that I documented both the rise and demise of Santa Claus that descends annually on Manche...
I wish a very happy Orthodox Christmas to all readers who celebrate it! The postcard is once again from my family’s archive, and the video below presents the picturesque winter landscape of the ...
Manchester Snow 22, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia....
Manchester Snow 16, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. Such was the scene in Sackville Gardens in Manchester, and this was the largest number of snowmen I’ve ever seen within a fairly s...