Grey sky portrait police dogs van and cars, Deansgate looking south to Beetham Tower from Jackson's Row, Manchester, UK
Portrait shot south along Deansgate from Jackson's Row. 201 Deansgate, left mid-distance, is an office building development. Centre mid-distance, the red bricks Onward Buildings, with curved corners and yellow stripes of sandstone and yellow terracotta windows and doorways, was built in 1903-1904 by the Band of Hope, a temperance movement founded in Leeds in 1845. The name refers to 'Onward', the title of a Band of Hope newspaper, designed for children to reinforce the temperance way of life with material such as music, moral tales, stories and poetry. Although binge drinking is often seen a phenomenon of 21st century life, excessive drinking was a significant feature of life in the 19th Century. In the right background, the multi-use Beetham Tower, at 168 m (551 feet), is the tallest skyscraper in Manchester, and eleventh in the UK, Completed in 2006, it also one of the thinnest skyscrapers in the world.
Size: 2866px × 4299px
Location: Deansgate at Jackson's Row, looking south to Beetham Tower. Manchester, Lancashire, UK
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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