an urban pootle in Manchester this Sunday am...

this is at Manchester University, alma mater, where even bike have their own dept.

HH7 is the Dean





these guys were a long way from home:





My love is history: this is on what was Chorlton Town Hall. People pass by without looking up. Not me.







HH7 he say "there I was restin' against the rail, and this birdy came nuzzling up..... chick magnet, thats me..."





the Midland Hotel is where on May 4 1904 the engineer Mr Royce met the financier Mr Rolls (source: wikipedia).
Local myth is they sat in the car and Mr Rolls said "you can turn the engine on now Mr Royce" and Mr Royce said "it is turned on already".

Impressed with the silence and smoothness of the running, Rolls struck the deal, and Rolls-Royce was born.

An amazing coincidence really, because Rolls-Royce is the term used to denote high quality luxury items.

Anyway, one night I had a few beers there, next day, Mr Hammer met Mr Head.



At the Free Trade Hall in Manchester 1976 there was a famous concert featuring the Six Pestols.

If everyone who now says there were there was there it would have had to have been at Old Trafford. (A soccer game establishment, m'lud).

A guy had a market stall in front of the town hall , he wouldn't let me take a pic of the t-shirt feature poster for said show, but allowed me to get a smidgen of it in this picture of his logo'd bag




Finally, our American cousins will recognize this guy, the great Abraham Lincoln, his statue is in Lincoln Square, on the plinth is his letter to the working men of Manchester thanking them for their boycott of southern cotton during the Civil War.



I love my city, will pootle and post anon.