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Princess Street, MANCHESTER, M1 6DE

Another deserted streets in the centre of Manchester.

A stunning example of Manchester's palazzo warehouses, by the masters Clegg & Knowles, 1869. Red brick with stone dressings - quoins, surrounds to the first-floor windows and keystones. The amount and disposition of the detail is spot on. Grade II listed. It is one of a sequence of particularly fine warehouses on this street, each occupying a whole block. It has now been converted into offices, but the basement is occupied by a nightclub, Cruz 101.

Another super example of Manchester's warehouses. A rich concoction of orangey-red brick with stone dressings, striped on the ground floor, carved panels, oriel windows and a lively roofline of hipped gables crowned with finials. By Pennington & Bridgen, 1887. Grade II listed. It is one of a sequence of particularly fine warehouses on this street. This one currently serves as housing, offices and bars.

View along the main A34 near Manchester city centre.

A footballing celebration in Manchester with no red in sight? Shome mishtake, shurely? Well, no, for it was City's turn to celebrate with the traditional run round the city centre in a bus having secured, in perhaps the most thrilling denouement of any title race anywhere ever, the Premiership title the day before, their first title since 1968. A minute into injury time in their final game, not having lost all season at home, they were losing 2-1, at home, to relegation candidates QPR. A minute later they had drawn level and in the fifth minute of injury time they conjured up a winner, frustrating their only rivals, the red half of Manchester. The figure on the extreme right brandishing a camera is the manager Roberto Mancini.

Last minute adjustments to the official clock at the junction of Portland St and Oxford St at the start of the Manchester 10k race.

A grand edifice of stone, with Continental Gothic motifs (Pevsner). The windows are paired on each floor, and gradually diminish in size as one ascends. Built to the designs of Victorian Manchester's premier firm of warehouse-architects, Clegg & Knowles, c1870. Grade II listed. It was built as the Pickles Building, and is now a hotel.

A smashing building, built as the Mechanics' Institute in 1854-55 to the designs of J.E. Gregan (his last work). Pevsner comments that "the nobility and purity of its design sets it apart" from the nearby later warehouses. Brick with stone dressings, generously proportioned, pediments to the first-floor windows. Round the corner three tall arched windows must have flooded the lecture hall with light. Grade II* listed. According to Wikipedia, the building has a most illustrious past: the Trades Union Congress, Co-operative Insurance Society and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology were all founded here. It currently houses the archives of the National Labour Museum. It is one of a sequence of particularly fine buildings on this street, each occupying a whole block.