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Downing Street Industrial Estate, Charlton Place, MANCHESTER, M12 6HH

Part of the Downing Street Industrial Estate.

On Downing Street Industrial Estate.

On the left is the Mancunian Way with a skateboard park underneath it. The road beside it is the end of the westbound A635 which meets the A6 behind the camera. There is a slight dispute as to whether this section of the Mancunian Way is the A57(M) or the A635(M).

Offices, studios and workshops in a former Victorian mill on the corner of Cakebread Street and Charlton Place.

Traffic leaving the eastern end of the A57M, onto the A635. The Mancunian Way is a two mile-long stretch of elevated urban motorway in Manchester which forms the southern part of the Manchester and Salford Inner Ring Road. It was constructed in two phases between 1963 and 1967 and was officially opened by then-Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, on 5 May 1967. At the time of its opening, the Manchester Evening News referred to it as the "highway in the sky". In the 1970s it was upgraded to motorway status as the A57(M) and the speed limit was raised to 50 miles per hour (80 km/h). It is officially made up of the A57(M) and A635(M) motorways, although the latter does not appear on road signs for practical reasons.

Looking underneath the Mancunian Way East of London Road.

The Mancunian Way, the ring road to the south of the centre of Manchester.

The end of the elevated section of the Mancunian Way.

On the right is a development called Mill Point. On the left is the Mancunian Way. There is a slight dispute as to whether this section is the A57(M) or the A635(M). In the background are buildings originally part of UMIST now the University of Manchester.

On the side of a building on Charlton Place Image in the Downing Street Industrial Estate. It is partially obscured by trees and only the top half is visible from the nearby Mancunian Way. It appears to be the work of Trafford Parsons and was created in 2017 or 2018.