I've been trying to think of some exceptions to this - some of the mills of Greater Manchester, for example, or the new flats on the old Boddingtons Brewery site in Strangeways - but these all c… (View Post)

Manchester Evening News is somewhat ambivalent about events last weekend:… (View Post)

ISTR one from the post-covid period about how "Working from home is a danger to house prices". (I can't remember the logic, but was pleased by the way the Tele had managed to bundle tw… (View Post)

Which raises the question: what architecture does look good in the wet? Personally, I always admire architectural renders which show the building on a rainy day. Anything can look good in the sun; it… (View Post)

An afterthought/clarification: I am certainly not saying all Victorian streets of redbrick housing are attractive. There were thousands of streets of slum housing which were utterly cheerless, and I … (View Post)