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Ramp – Stockport Interchange

Posted on June 10, 2024June 10, 2024 by modernmoocher

I have written several time about the former bus station.

It’s now all grown up into a fully fledged transport interchange – with its very own pedestrian and cycling ramp.

The 189-metre ramp provides a seamless and accessible route to navigate the level change from the rooftop park to the river Mersey frontage, leading to the Trans Pennine Trail route.

Forming part of the Stockport Interchange Mixed Use development scheme, and which also includes a new cycle and pedestrian link from Stockport rail station to the new park, as well as connecting the new facility to the wider Bee Network cycling and walking infrastructure, which is designed to encourage more people to make journeys on foot or by bike.

One Stockport

Architect: The Harris Partnership
Steelwork Contractor: SH Structures
Main Contractor: Willmot Dixon
Structural Engineer: OPS Structures Ltd

Here is a time-lapse video of the whole construction site.

As a pedestrian, cyclist, train and bus user I wholeheartedly approve of the whole shebang.

Let’s take a walk up the ramp together.

Car Park – Eldon Square

Posted on May 27, 2024 by modernmoocher

Eldon Square Percy Street Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RZ

Well here we are in Newcastle again exploring a car park – last time was the Manors.

We are a walkway and a walk away at Eldon Square – a great big drum of a spiral ramped cylinder.

So well worth a look – by walking the ramp with outside in, and inside out views.

Chorlton Street Car Park – Manchester

Posted on November 27, 2023November 27, 2023 by modernmoocher

Chorlton Street Car Park – M1 3FY

Secure and easy to find while driving, struggled to get back in through side door, had to walk up the ramp.

Expensive.

Stairwell stinks like piss and I’ve seen homeless people sitting in there, doesn’t feel safe.

Great car park, security is great, right in the city centre, above the bus station that goes Scotland to Cornwall, Wales to Norwich and many more, Manchester city centre literally, with Piccadilly Gardens, around the corner.

We have been snapping here afore in the guise of Mr Estate Pubs – checking out the Thompsons Arms.

For this is a car park with coach station and boozer attached.

The pedestrian in a car park approaches cautiously – along the ramp.

Retreating the better to circumnavigate the site.

I was quickly losing light – so I called it a day.

Returning on a sunnier day.

Arndale Car Park – Manchester

Posted on November 24, 2023December 5, 2023 by modernmoocher

Arndale Car Park – High St Nicholas Croft M4 1AZ

Good location but the access to the shopping centre is dirty. Lifts dirty – discarded soiled underwear, urine, spit and rubbish in the lifts, car park also full of litter.

The most unnecessarily complicated ticketing system I have ever seen for a car park. Designed to fail so that the system can fine you. Beware, better avoided for overseas visitors.

The pedestrian in the car park presses on – encountering structural engineers along the way, who have given the concrete construction a clean bill of health.

St James Street Car Park – Nottingham

Posted on June 25, 2023June 25, 2023 by modernmoocher

5 St James’s St Nottingham NG1 6EY

This is an appalling car park.

Nottingham should be ashamed of it.

Very expensive, dirty and with rough sleepers lying on each stairs landing.

Felt very unsafe.

Parkopedia

Located in the heart of Nottingham, our parking on St James Street puts you right in the historical centre of this ancient city. Get your picture taken with the legendary Robin Hood Statue, then take a tour of the Castle, Museum and Art Gallery before staying in the stylish boutique accommodation of St James Hotel.

NCP

Under construction.

Lost underpass.

Archive photographs: Nottingham Post

An overwhelming three-part development by John P Osborne & Sons. Phase 1 has a multi-storey car park 1962 above shops; followed by the fifteen-storey Britannic Hotel 1966, elevations by James Roberts.

Elain Harwood

Eschewing the pedestrian entrance, I ascended the ramp – walk like a car!

Weaving between yellow pillars, taking care on the stairs.

Peering out of the hexagons.

Until finally, I reached the upper level.

Made it Ma, top of the world!

White Heat

I’m on the top of the world lookin’ down on creation
And the only explanation I can find
Is the love that I’ve found, ever since you’ve been around
Your love’s put me at the top of the world

Haley Hill Flats – Halifax

Posted on August 26, 2021July 19, 2024 by modernmoocher

The New Bank Development – aka Range Lane or Haley Hill.

Built in 1964 – Architects Leonard Vincent and Ray Gorbing.

Forming part of my Halifax Walk.

Having seen Mandy Payne’s pictures over on Instagram – I hastened to Halifax.

Intrigued by the Oscar Niemeyer style stairs.

Here are my pictures.

Car Park Ramp – Stockport

Posted on June 6, 2020 by modernmoocher

We recently took a look around Redrock, today we visit the next door neighbour – the car park ramp.

Replacing the old Debenham’s ramp.

Linking the old world of Merseyway with the shiny new NCP.

I don’t drive no car so I have to make do with the ecologically sound and ever so affordable means of pedestrian trespass, proceeding incautiously I recorded my journey into the unknown.

Returning safely to Basecamp I investigated further, circumnavigating the drainage area.

I have to admit that I am over fond of this small sacred space, a modern impenetrable temple of Brutalism. My ambition is to stage an art/music event within, just wait and see/hear if I don’t!

Indoor Market Preston – Epilogue

Posted on March 27, 2018 by modernmoocher

I’ve been here, before recording the prelude to the epilogue, here at Preston’s Indoor Market.

So on my return this February, I find that the inevitable end, is indeed now past nigh.

Boarded and shuttered awaiting demolition – Waiting for The Light to shine:

Preston City Council has granted planning permission to Muse Developments’ £50m cinema-led leisure scheme in the city centre.

Muse is working in partnership with the council on the plans, made up of an 11-screen cinema operated by The Light, seven family restaurants, a 593-space multi-storey car park and public realm improvements.

The project forms part of the wider regeneration of the Markets Quarter which includes the full refurbishment and redecoration of the grade two-listed market canopies and the construction of a glazed Market Hall.

Preston to their credit have become an exemplar for inward urban regeneration, and the work undertaken so far in the market area is bringing new life and trade to the area.

That said, it is always saddening to see the architecture of the Sixties swept aside.

So come take one last wander through the concrete warren of ramps, underpasses and tunnels of the unwanted indoor market.