manchester Archive

  • Choice Restaurant in Castlefield

    Choice Restaurant in Castlefield

    On the balmy summer evening when I posted all these Castlefield photos, we decided to check out Choice Restaurant. I’ve heard it’s supposed to be good, but when you get off the bus at Piccadilly it’s a right hike to get out to Castlefield so had never tried it out. Anyway, we were there and we [...]

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  • Open City Photography: a day in the sun

    Open City Photography: a day in the sun

    It was a tropically sunny day for Manchester’s Open City photography day today, and the city centre was heaving with red-faced, skimpily-dressed Mancunians enjoying the rays. I was assigned to Andrew Brooks (pictured just below), who creates the most amazing hyper-real photographs using Photoshop. By taking numerous images of the same scene, including wide lens shots, [...]

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  • Buy real food at Manchester Farmers’ Market

    Buy real food at Manchester Farmers’ Market

    After a late night with too much wine and then a 6.30am early start to finish off a project, I needed rescuing to make it through the rest of today. A hungover craving for food that involved not cooking or washing up propelled me, via the magic of the 192, down to Manchester’s Farmers’ and [...]

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  • Noho: the newest kid on the Northern Quarter block

    Noho: the newest kid on the Northern Quarter block

    Manchester’s Northern Quarter welcomes a new bar this year, and there is indeed room for such a newcomer. Noho is situated on Stevenson Square, just opposite Soup Kitchen. The name is a twist on New York’s Soho district, and the owners are trying to bring a touch of the Big Apple to their little corner of [...]

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  • Town Cafe in Heaton Moor

    Town Cafe in Heaton Moor

    Due to my kitchen being redone and the contents of it being scattered across my dining room, I will be eating out a lot this week. A pleasant start to this was dropping into the Town cafe in Heaton Moor. After a flurry of DIY shopping at Dunelm Mill, Argos and B&Q, my friend and [...]

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  • Mosey on down to MOSI

    Mosey on down to MOSI

    I haven’t been to the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester since I was about 11 and my, has it changed! The big shed full of places and engines is still there, but now there are four buildings in total full to the brim of exhibitions. Since then it has also undergone some re-branding and [...]

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  • North Pole Bar before it closes?

    North Pole Bar before it closes?

    I wanted to get to the North Pole Bar for ages since it opened, but I just couldn’t make the trek right over to the other side of town. And then I’ve been wanting to make it the first proper post on this blog, but then Christmas happened and it was just the done thing to lie around eating [...]

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