Victoria Arches, Manchester - October 2013
I'd been working away from home for a few weeks, but managed to finish a day early and get back to Manc, only to get an invite here. You don't turn something like that down! It's a fantastic place and I felt lucky to go. I was also lucky to be in the company of Ojay, Squirrel 911 and The Lone Ranger, who were not only very enjoyable company, but also all made it all possible. Thank you.
The original landing stages are broken up and scattered around
Temptation!
Thanks for taking a look.
The Victoria Arches are a series of bricked-up arches built in an embankment of the River Irwell in Manchester. They served as business premises, landing stages for Steam packet riverboats and as Second World War air-raid shelters. They were accessed from wooden staircases that descended from Victoria Street.
Regular flooding resulted in the closure of the steam-packet services in the early 20th century, and the arches were later used for general storage. Following the outbreak of the Second World War they were converted into air raid shelters. They are now bricked up and inaccessible, the staircases having been removed in the latter part of the 20th century. The arches were built to create new industrial space, during construction of a new embankment along the River Irwell, built to support a new road. The embankment was completed in 1838.
I'd been working away from home for a few weeks, but managed to finish a day early and get back to Manc, only to get an invite here. You don't turn something like that down! It's a fantastic place and I felt lucky to go. I was also lucky to be in the company of Ojay, Squirrel 911 and The Lone Ranger, who were not only very enjoyable company, but also all made it all possible. Thank you.
The original landing stages are broken up and scattered around
Temptation!
Thanks for taking a look.
