Manchester – Shopping – Food & Drink – Bakeries The most distinguishing trait of this Greggs must be its location. Unlike many other Greggs shops in Manchester it has the bus sto...
London – Eating & Drinking – Pubs & Bars – Pubs As many past visitors correctly noted, the pub is nowhere near Baker Street – but it is close enough to the famous Chari...
Manchester – Arts & Entertainment – Museums Until the IWM North my impression of a war museum was based entirely on a childhood experience of visiting the Museum of the Armed Forces in...
Manchester Did you know that they were making Songs of Praise in Manchester? Now you do. Religion and Ethics department was located, quite pertinently, at the top floor of the building in Oxford Road....
Manchester – Nightlife – Cinemas – Eating & Drinking – Pubs & Bars – Bars – Arts & Entertainment – Social Clubs For one reason or another, over th...
Manchester – Arts & Entertainment – Theatres I cannot remember all the names of the great and well-known actors who graced the stage of the Library Theatre, but I know that Alan Rickma...
Manchester For the lack of better word, I call this composition “The Monument to Cleanliness”. There is no plaque gracing the pedestal, on which is mounted a massive broom. By the side of ...
Manchester – Eating & Drinking – Cafes & Coffee Shops This has to be my favourite Caffe Nero in Manchester! I’ve been to many, but none seems to strike the cord with me apart...
Manchester Tucked between a travel agent and an outlet that keeps changing hands is the entrance to Speakers House. This multistoried building was erected on a bomb site that was used after the war as...
Manchester Adrift is a 1907 group by the Irish-born sculptor, John Cassidy (1860-1939). The monument used to be in Platt Fields Park (just like Abraham Lincoln statue that is now in Lincoln Square), b...