Manchester is awash with cranes at the moment as the city continues to cement its position s the second city in the UK. With each new building comes differing opinions about the architectural design and the direction of the skyline. This made me think about historic buildings in the city and what commonality existed in previous constructions a hundred or more years ago and whether or not architecture was always such a contentious issue, especially as the Victorians had a penchant for ‘just getting on with it’. So with this in mind I wanted to focus on a granular detail of a Manchester building, something that is a common thread in older constructions – tiles. One of the things I see most photographed by foreign tourists in the city is the wonderful ornate tiles that adorn some of our buildings that we as citizens often take for granted. This is a collage of some (by no means all!) of those tiles.

Left to right —
 
Lass O Gowrie | Tom’s Chop House | The Refuge | Lower Turks Head |The Castle | Churchgate House | Crown and Anchor | Midland Hotel | The Palace Theatre | The Arndale | Victoria Station | Marble Arch | London Road Firestation | Peveril of the Peak | Victoria Baths | Gullivers | Marsden Harcombe & Company Limited | The Footage | Britons Protection | Langley Building

This is 017 in a limited edition run of prints - 10 in each size - once they are gone they are gone forever. Each print has been produced on fine art cotton, is acid free 300gsm paper and will be numbered and signed by 0161