Manchester Airport is Britain’s most centrally located major airport, and is third busiest by numbers of passengers after London Heathrow and London Gatwick.
Many people still refer to it by its original name Ringway. Passengers from the whole of the north of England, and some from further away, fly in and out of Manchester Ringway […]

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Selection of photos of Platt Fields Park taken from the archive. Click on the thumbnails to view. The pictures can be purchased as Photobox prints or high resolution files.

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 

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Rochdale Canal in fog 1996
I am very interested in the quintessential quality of places.
Quintessential refers in the ancient and medieval philosophy to the ‘fifth element’ of a substance, the others being air, fire, earth and water. The quintessence of something is its purest and most concentrated essential form, the essential and most typical class or […]

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