3 MAJOR PROJECTS 2 BIG HOLES 1 PRISON | Manchester Building Boom 31 Aug 2024

+++ ERROR NOTICES The bricks on Waterhouse Gardens are real bricks, not masonry veneer. The Strangeways riots took place in 1990, not 1989. +++

I needed to catch up with three important constructions projects going on in Manchester city centre

0:00 Introduction
0:45 Contour construction site, New Jackson Street
4:40 St Michael's, fmr Bootle Street Police Station site
8:00 Waterhouse Gardens, fmr Boddingtons Brewery site
9:50 HMP Manchester aka Strangeways Prison

I got on my bike and toured the three sites on two wheels, starting at Contour on the New Jackson Street site, proceeding to St Michael's on the former Bootle Street police station site close to Albert Square, to Waterhouse Gardens, the big project under construction behind the AO Arena on the former Boddington's Brewery site, pausing for a while in front of Strangeways Prison, which incredible though it may sound to me, could become a luxury apartment complex in the not too distant future. I recite an excerpt from a famous poem, recommend a movie - Hell is a City - and muse on matters sacred and profane!

Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co....

Renaker
https://renaker.com/

All about Saint Michael (the saint!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael...)

Mammon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammon

Music from the YouTube Audio Library
It's almost over by SefChoi
Blue Macaw by Quincas Moreira
Noir et Blanc by MydNyte
Walking in the Sky by Nico Staf
Caverns by Bad Snacks

Jerusalem ("And did those feet in ancient time")
played by AidanEyewitness