Today’s hot news from Manchester: It’s not raining!
St Ann’s Square Manchester with red tulips
It may come as news to some, but it doesn’t rain continuously in Manchester. In fact, the rainiest place in the UK is in the middle of the Lake District.
On sunny lunchtimes, Manchester city centre is a great place to be. Office workers have lunch at cafe bar tables, or sit on benches in Manchester’s streets and squares, munching sandwiches and sipping coffee to go. Glamorous women stroll with large shopping bags after visiting boutiques on King St or New Cathedral St. Men in suits from nearby offices go for liquid lunch breaks in pubs and bars.
It’s a busy streetscape that might have been of interest to the painter LS Lowry, whose northern scenes weren’t always gloomy.
But as soon as it clouds over and starts raining again, no doubt people will say ‘Huh, typical Manchester, it never stops raining!’.
Well just to remind them of Manchester’s sunnier side, here are the pictures as proof.
Taken lunchtime Friday 28 April 2006 and published on Eye On Manchester shortly after!
