Posts Tagged Manchester
Mainly Manchester
Add comment November 25, 2009
Gargoyles!
By Liam
The Shrieking Violet is another great Manchester blog. It’s anonymous so I don’t know if we’ve met the Violet herself in person.
Anyway, you may have noticed that we keep encountering gargoyles in our meanderings, but never manage to photograph the buggers. Shrieking Violet has captured many of Manchester’s best specimens on film, and eulogised them beautifully here:
Where have all the gargoyles gone?
Well done!
Add comment September 24, 2009
Manchester attitude
By Liam
‘If it stopped banging on about its football teams and its bands and its shops and its attitude, Manchester has something that it can be genuinely, enormously proud of, something that it should shout from the rooftops. Manchester changed the world’s politics: from vegetarianism to feminism to trade unionism to communism, every upstart notion that ever got ideas above its station, every snotty street-fighter of a radical philosophy, was fostered brawling in Manchester’s streets, mills, pubs, churches and debating halls.’
- Stuart Maconie, Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North
Marie gave me this book as she wasn’t very impressed with it. It has its moments though.
Add comment September 21, 2009
Manchester-themed graffiti
A lovely piece of Manchester-related graffiti and also a description of zedding:
6 comments August 6, 2009
