Manchester

25 October 17       A quick trip to Salford Quays, returning via Ancoats.
Some cloud in the morning but brighter later.

First piece of new infrastructure, a concrete pillar,
has appeared on the new Trafford Park Line tram route.

Sadly, one of the locals had come a cropper on the Millenium Footbridge.

Video crew for the BBC's Blue Peter programme.

Interesting piece of kit.

The Alchemist restaurant is now fully open.

The second (of four) of the X1 Media apartment blocks is shooting up.

Ancoats - the Cotton Field Wharf apartments are nearly finished.

Cranes going up for the next development - Weavers Quay (without apostrophe).

The temporary roof is being dismantled on Murrays' Mills (with apostrophe).

Cotton Field Wharf.

On the left is the 'hoUSe' development by Urban Splash.
A row of prefabricated modular three-storey houses.