Cathedral Arches Manchester 23/04/10

[host]

Cathedral Arches or Victorian Arches as they were known has been well over due for me, but as anyone who has been in will say well worth it and the effort, it's hard to believe what is right under your feet when standing outside the Cathedral stranger still when inside hearing all the people above 20 feet above your head, these Arches hold a lot of interesting feature's and make a great little shooting exercise it's hard to get a scale of the size of the Arches from the photo's but some are impressively large, visited with oldskool who i must thank big time on this..
HISTORY..(in brief)
In 1838 the city completed construction of the new embankment along the river irwell, the Arches were built at the same time for Industrial space, In the Victorian era passenger's would take trips along the river evan though it was becoming very polluted being described as almost proverbial for the foulness of it's waters.Regular flooding resulted in the closure of the steam packet service sometime in the early 20th century.Later in it's life during WWII the surrounding the Arches were converted into air raid shelters with the ability to hold up to 1600 people this is where most of the what is left can be seen, it's such a shame this is not open to the public there is a great deal of history right under our street's.
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[Ojay]

Nice pics, shame about later on :thumb

[Bugsuperstar]

:thumb well done. Really nice report

[Oldskool]

how much fun did we have getting in here ?? think its about time we get out of manchester for a change....

[diehardlove]

really want to see this place,looks good

[Karibou]

looks awesome! you must have had a great time down there!

[georgie]

very nicely lit m8 good work

[Oldskool]

looks awesome! you must have had a great time down there!

do you own a air horn............only joking

[Rookie]

Brilliant lighting. It's quite a place.

Nice work. :thumb

[Medusa]

Spooky!

[pirate]

i think my eyes are going funny pic 1 looks like a model

[Skydiver]

Nice report - good to see some different shots from down here - makes me want a wide angle lens even more!

[bren]

how did you go about getting in there? must of been pretty difficult

[Karibou]

do you own a air horn............only joking

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[Shadow]

how did you go about getting in there? must of been pretty difficult

Bawhahaha fuckin' epic first post mate, why don't you go look for yourself maybe?

Nice pics btw, almost makes me want to fork out the insane sums of money for a tilt-shift, did you rent one or actually buy one? :eek::Not Worthy

[obscurity]

this place looks mental :)
nice pics there mate! looks like you showed the place well

[Ordnance]

how did you go about getting in there? must of been pretty difficult

Sir, Sir, Please Sir - I know. Sir, Sir :wanker

Make some friends first, then maybe, just maybe you will get a hint.

[host]

Bawhahaha fuckin' epic first post mate, why don't you go look for yourself maybe?

Nice pics btw, almost makes me want to fork out the insane sums of money for a tilt-shift, did you rent one or actually buy one? :eek::Not Worthy
Rented mate, first shot shamelessly stolen from an earlier report..