Glasgow has a very impressive Town Hall or Council Office and so does Belfast with woodwork by the same carpenters who did the Titanic’s. Manchester’s Town Hall is right up there with the best.
Ian and Paul are security in the building and gave me lost of info. Like why the floors are like they are.
Cotton helped build this city and it’s flower, is depicted the left pic and the workers of Manchester are as busy as bees. Bees are the symbol of Manchester established by people from the Isle of Mann and the city of Chester. Although maybe it derives from Roman General Agricola, who founded Mamucium in 79 AD. Manchester, CT, USA where my parents & I moved to in 1954 and where my siblings were all born (I was thankfully born in Boston, MA) is the second oldest Manchester founded in 1679. and like the original was a mill city focusing on silk vs. cotton. Hence my feelings of solidarity.
Wth arched and painted ceilings, elaborate meeting rooms, massive circular (and off limit ) stairways
Intricate fireplaces
massive columns, it truly is a magnificent building.
It just gets better when you walk into the great hall and get stunned. These are the walls.
Look up!Each section depicts one of the principle countries or towns that Manchester traded with.
And look around. With the visitor pass Paul gave me I could go into any unoccupied room and take photos.
Statuary like Conductor Sir John Barbirolli, who appears to be in motion
The bust of Moss Side activist Erinma Bell, the first woman depicted in the hall is made from melted shotguns! And the states of John Dalton and James Prescott Joule who determined her was a form of energy and who’s name is used as a unit of measure.
Cutting through a park as I headed to St. Mary’s I was startled to see this fella
Even though the embargo on cotton during the American Civil War put great stain on the workers in the nearly empty cotton mills, they voted to support it in solitary with Lincoln’s stand against slavery, a concept abhorred in this city.
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