Timestamps
* New Bailey Street, Salford
00:10 Affinity Living Riverview, New Bailey Street, Salford (110m tall, 35-storey residential skyscraper)
00:14 Four New Bailey (home of BT British Telecom)
* Bridge Street, Manchester
00:16 Manchester Civil Justice Centre (Manchester Crown Court just behind)
00:27 Albert Bridge House (plans for redevelopment – see
00:56 Manchester Hall (Masonic) and the area around ‘The Avenue North’
01:22 Manchester Hall (Masonic)
01:26 Bridge Street scenes approaching Deansgate (compare the detailed old architecture with modern city centre builds)
* Deansgate, Manchester
02:10 Turning onto Deansgate, Manchester (note the road closures, ongoing roadworks, cycle lanes, pedestrianisation, one way systems and loss of parking spaces). Spot the ‘VivaCity’ Road Space Usage Sensors which GPS track (live) the position of vehicles, cycles and pedestrians as they go about their daily business.
02:25 Deansgate looking towards the ‘New Jackson’ skyscraper district. John Rylands Library to the right.
02:31 Spinningfields (right hand side).
02:40 Driving down Deansgate, approaching the most prominent skyscraper zone of ‘New Jackson’
04:24 Left lane of Deansgate has been removed and replaced with a cycle lane
05:17 Beetham Tower / The Hilton Hotel – the first ‘SMART’ city style skyscraper, designed by Simpson Hough – the Architects who design the majority of local skyscrapers
* Whitworth Street West
07:30 Turning off Deansgate into Whitworth Street West
07:40 Beetham Tower on the left, Viadux on the right
07:50 Driving past Deansgate Castlefield tram station and the Axis building
08:30 Turning right into Albion Street
08:38 First Street / ‘Home’ area on the left; New Jackson to the right. River Street tower straight ahead
Incorporates some of the original footage which eventually became ‘Deansgate Disaster’. See: https://youtu.be/6okZtnmqU6k
From Bridge Street through to New Jackson, Manchester:
15 Minute ‘SMART’ Cityscapes (of Manchester and Salford).
Filmed September 2024.
Note that Deansgate is now one way only since the other half of the road has been turned over to cyclists! It is very clear to see on the left hand side as we head down.
We did a quick turn around down by the First Street area because of broken temporary traffic lights. 🙂
For other videos of this area see:-