Manchester has changed rapidly in the last 100 years. The Lancashire
market town was transformed during the Industrial Revolution through the
manufacture of textiles, becoming the world's first industrialised city.
Its growth was largely unplanned but during the nineteenth century the
Manchester Ship Canal was constructed, along with many of the great
civic buildings of Manchester. Alongside the new wealth, the city also
contained extremes of poverty and suffered extensive damage from aerial
bombardment in the Second World War and the massive IRA bomb explosion
in 1996. Mass rebuilding and regeneration has taken place as a result.
In Manchester From Old Photographs author Eric Krieger has drawn on a
remarkable selection of old images to give a pictorial record of how
much the city and the community has changed over the last century.
Although many landmarks have remained the same over the years, these
photographs show the city adapting and evolving, with many other
buildings being replaced and the pattern of life in the city changing
for many too. This fascinating collection of images will be of interest
to those who have lived in Manchester or know it well, as well as the
many visitors to the area.
