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Report - One St. Peters Square Crane, Manchester - June 2013.

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Ojay

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One St. Peters Square (CRANE), Manchester

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Elisabeth House occupied that site until 2012 when it was demolished to make way for the new building, it was designed by Cruickshank and Seward, the architects of much of the UMIST campus

When it was built is a bit of a mystery, all the architectural references that bother to include it say it was between 1959 and 1960 however the Manchester Council Planning Department indicated that it was in fact built in 1971

One St. Peter’s Square will provide 268,000 sq ft of BREEAM ‘Excellent’, Grade ‘A’ office space in the centre of Manchester and the heart of the central business district once completed in March 2014


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It's probably been 3 years since I last bothered with a crane, mainly down to sheer laziness on my part I guess!

The last crane I climbed in Manchester was the old Origin crane which has long gone, to fill the gap there hasn't been much on offer other than SC which again purely down to cba I simply didn't bother with

(looking back I kinda wish I had made an effort really)

Since then these things are getting a lot trickier to conquer, gone are the days you can just rock up and climb a ladder hassle free to the top and back for a few snaps, it's probably better that way anyhow


Since last July/October respectively (once preperation work had been completed), Manchesters' latest additions to the skyline were erected

There are two cranes on site here, the bigger one obviously being the main target for anyone that way inclined, the height (85-90m approx)

Like anything out of reach, the more you stare at, the more you want but like most stuff these days I kept looking instead of bothering to have a crack

Props to fishbrain and Userscott for first hitting it up earlier in the year and followed up by > http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/high-stuff/77466-one-st-peters-square-crane-manchester-jan-2013-a.html

Having since been up understand the challenges one faces with today's tower cranes


Massive shouts to Ninjaboy, having talked about this one for long enough now we decided to just go for it

Although we did have a quick poke about the building itself, we were there for the crane and nothing more, besides it's mainly a concrete shell and fairly shite

Time was against us, it was all or nothing

You're a good way up before you encounter any real 'problems' with a locked hatch for starters amongst others, still we hadn't come this far to concede

With a little effort we were both where we needed to be and quickly on our way to the top

The weather was perfect, the views were decent although a tad windy for pics

We didn't want to hang about either as we had a small window so a couple of snaps before heading down for a much needed gulp of water and some Zzzzz


I haven't got a clue what I'm doing with a camera outside of drains :D

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..oh if anyone is interested here is an ongoing time lapse of the build

http://www.cctvmon.com/videos/timelapse/argent/mth/mth.mp4
 

georgie

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Re: One St. Peters Square (CRANE), Manchester - June 2013.

Top stuff as always
 

Seffy

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Re: One St. Peters Square (CRANE), Manchester - June 2013.

Props fella, I love looking at crane photos. You've done this one justice, nice one.
 

The Lone Ranger

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Re: One St. Peters Square (CRANE), Manchester - June 2013.

Stunning shots even if they are not down a drain, the just pre-dawn light makes the images :thumb
 

NightVision

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Re: One St. Peters Square (CRANE), Manchester - June 2013.

another amazing report mate. love this:thumb
 

The Kwan

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Re: One St. Peters Square (CRANE), Manchester - June 2013.

Massive yes to this, some lovely jib shots but feck this for a laugh. Nice write up:thumb
 

host

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Re: One St. Peters Square (CRANE), Manchester - June 2013.

Stunning shots.
 

The Wombat

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Re: One St. Peters Square (CRANE), Manchester - June 2013.

Drains to cranes...
One extreme to another
Good work Ojay
 

Tom Sherman

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Re: One St. Peters Square (CRANE), Manchester - June 2013.

they are some very nice pics of Manchester ojay nice 1 . :thumb
 

Stopford_lad

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Re: One St. Peters Square (CRANE), Manchester - June 2013.

I never tire of seeing Manchester from 'on high'..really nice shots :cool
 

JuJu

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Re: One St. Peters Square (CRANE), Manchester - June 2013.

Nice one Ojay,

Love the shots :D
 

ZerO81

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Re: One St. Peters Square (CRANE), Manchester - June 2013.

Not really one for cranes, but these shots are very very nice!
 
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