Part of the bestselling Then & Now series Manchester Then & Now visually charts the huge changes that have affected the city from the 1860s. The building of the ship canal in the late Victorian era turned Manchester into the UKs third biggest port. The industrial boom of the 1930s & post-war bust followed by the regeneration with the Commonwealth Games are all featured in a book that
Includes:: some spectacular aerial comparisons. A wonderful visual guide to Manchester past & present. Some 70 historic photographs of Manchesters past are paired with specially commissioned contemporary views taken from the same vantage point. You can see the same streets & buildings as they were then & as they are now. The book features the changes to the city created by the massive IRA bomb of 1996 the demolition of some of the 1960s architecture & its redevelopment the conversion of old mills to modern apartments & the renaissance of the Salford Quays as sought-after residential areas. Some of the recent strong setpiece buildings of Manchester are also included such as the futuristic Imperial War Museum North & the 169-m tall Beetham Tower. & of course the evolution of the citys sports stadia is charted with images of Old Trafford Main Road the Belle Vue stadium & Lancashire County Crickets Old Trafford test area.