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As promised, I decided to take a leaf out of @floppybootstomp's book and share some photos with you of our home town 
This is St John's Gardens - there used to be a church here before it was turned into a park, and not many people know that there are around 22,000 bodies buried underneath the area:
This is a part of Spinningfields, which is the new business area of Manchester. I used to work in the building on the right, top floor:
The John Rylands Library which is on Deansgate (one of the main streets through the city centre) - feels a bit like Hogwarts inside. You can see other buildings in Spinningfields behind it:
This photo was taken in St Anne's Square - this is the Royal Exchange Theatre, and the building was previously used to exchange commodities:
The theatre inside is round and surrounded by raised seating. The cheap seats are right at the front on a low bench, which makes for great viewing! Panorama photo:
The trading boards from the last day of trading:
This is Shambles Square on the left. The black and white building on the left is Tudor, and the one in the middle is an extension that was added in the 1700s. Both were taken apart, relocated and put back together again in the 1990s:
This is the Metrolink which runs throughout Greater Manchester. It's expensive and prone to problems! You can see the Printworks on the left which houses a number of dodgy bars and the Odeon (including a proper IMAX):
This is Exchange Square, which until recently was called The Triangle, because it's triangular. The Corn Exchange now houses a good selection of restaurants and bars. The weird looking building with the antenna on the right was previously called The Urbis, and is now a football museum:
This postbox was very close to where the IRA bomb went off in 1996, and survived the blast:
Here's what it looked like back then:
The re-built M&S (you can just about see the post box on the far-right):
Town Hall, in Albert's Square. The floor inside is a mosaic of bees and cotton flowers (if you didn't know, bees are the symbol of Manchester due to the industrial past, and Manchester made its money from cotton):
The town hall is linked to the next-door building by overhead tunnels:
Next door to the town hall buildings is the Central Library, taken from St Peter's Square (this photo was taken using panorama mode, because there was building work going on behind me and I couldn't fit it all in):
Here's a non-distorted photo I also took:
More to follow...
This is St John's Gardens - there used to be a church here before it was turned into a park, and not many people know that there are around 22,000 bodies buried underneath the area:
This is a part of Spinningfields, which is the new business area of Manchester. I used to work in the building on the right, top floor:
The John Rylands Library which is on Deansgate (one of the main streets through the city centre) - feels a bit like Hogwarts inside. You can see other buildings in Spinningfields behind it:
This photo was taken in St Anne's Square - this is the Royal Exchange Theatre, and the building was previously used to exchange commodities:
The theatre inside is round and surrounded by raised seating. The cheap seats are right at the front on a low bench, which makes for great viewing! Panorama photo:
The trading boards from the last day of trading:
This is Shambles Square on the left. The black and white building on the left is Tudor, and the one in the middle is an extension that was added in the 1700s. Both were taken apart, relocated and put back together again in the 1990s:
This is the Metrolink which runs throughout Greater Manchester. It's expensive and prone to problems! You can see the Printworks on the left which houses a number of dodgy bars and the Odeon (including a proper IMAX):
This is Exchange Square, which until recently was called The Triangle, because it's triangular. The Corn Exchange now houses a good selection of restaurants and bars. The weird looking building with the antenna on the right was previously called The Urbis, and is now a football museum:
This postbox was very close to where the IRA bomb went off in 1996, and survived the blast:
Here's what it looked like back then:
The re-built M&S (you can just about see the post box on the far-right):
Town Hall, in Albert's Square. The floor inside is a mosaic of bees and cotton flowers (if you didn't know, bees are the symbol of Manchester due to the industrial past, and Manchester made its money from cotton):
The town hall is linked to the next-door building by overhead tunnels:
Next door to the town hall buildings is the Central Library, taken from St Peter's Square (this photo was taken using panorama mode, because there was building work going on behind me and I couldn't fit it all in):
Here's a non-distorted photo I also took:
More to follow...
