{"id":12164,"date":"2012-10-12T02:32:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T01:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=12164"},"modified":"2012-10-12T02:32:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T01:32:16","slug":"views-of-old-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/10\/12\/views-of-old-manchester\/","title":{"rendered":"Views of Old Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/manchester01.jpg\" alt=\"manchester01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always been curious about the history of the places I live in so for a while I was reading a lot about the history of Manchester, mostly via small booklets published by the City Council. The drawings in this Internet Archive discovery are familiar from some of those publications which tended to recycle the same few views. Manchester&#8217;s history dates back to the Roman occupation of Britain but the city never received the kind of detailed artistic attention that London inspired.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/manchester02.jpg\" alt=\"manchester02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/viewsofoldmanche00manciala\" target=\"_blank\">Views of Old Manchester<\/a><\/em> is dated 1885 but its antiquarian publishers use the old-fashioned (and somewhat anachronistic) medial &#8220;s&#8221; in their text. The drawings are from <em>Jackson&#8217;s Views of Manchester Streets<\/em> (1822) and <em>James&#8217;s Views<\/em> (1825), and show a variety of Dickensian buildings many of which had been demolished by the time this small book was published. The only recognisable structure to contemporary eyes is the tower of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manchester_Cathedral\" target=\"_blank\">Cathedral<\/a>. For an idea of how Market Street looks today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/search\/?q=market+street+manchester\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr<\/a> has plenty of recent views while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/manchesterarchiveplus\/sets\/\" target=\"_blank\">mcrarchives<\/a> has photos dating back to the 19th century.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/manchester03.jpg\" alt=\"manchester03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Map of Manchester, 1650.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/manchester04.jpg\" alt=\"manchester04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Top of Market Street (Built about 1550).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/manchester05.jpg\" alt=\"manchester05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Middle of Market Street (Built about 1530).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/manchester06.jpg\" alt=\"manchester06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Bottom of Market Street (About 1820).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/manchester07.jpg\" alt=\"manchester07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Old Smithy Door (About 1580).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/manchester08.jpg\" alt=\"manchester08.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The &#8220;Old Church&#8221; (Founded in 1422).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/manchester09.jpg\" alt=\"manchester09.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Old Blackfriars Bridge (Constructed in 1761).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/manchester10.jpg\" alt=\"manchester10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/manchester11.jpg\" alt=\"manchester11.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been curious about the history of the places I live in so for a while I was reading a lot about the history of Manchester, mostly via small booklets published by the City Council. The drawings in this Internet Archive discovery are familiar from some of those publications which tended to recycle the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/10\/12\/views-of-old-manchester\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Views of Old Manchester&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,42,51],"tags":[517],"class_list":["post-12164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-books","category-cities","tag-manchester"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3ac","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}