Manchester's Cotton Wealth, historical buildings

Peaking around 1906 Manchester, UK became the "cottonopolis" of northern England. The climate was ideal for spinning cotton (damp) and hundreds of spinning and weaving mills were built in the late 1800's to meet the demand for cotton cloth. Manchester became the hub for commerce. Several warehouses to house and exhibit finished goods were built in the city centre. A lot were destroyed in the blitz of 1939-1945 but a few remain. The most elegant is the J&S Watts building on Portland street. With 7 different types of architecture on each floor of the warehouse. It almost was demolished but finally saved and is now the Britannia hotel. Several other magnificent buildings have been converted into hotels or business premises. This video takes a look aroung the city centre of Manchester and examines some of these building and warehouses and other buildings built to echo the boom in the new commerce - banks, finance houses, churches and colleges. Also included are some of the earlier types of spinning frames, hand and power looms of the early 19th century. Most mills were originally water powered but steam became the main driving force. Several mill engines are also included. Filmed with the Panasonic FZ150 camera in 1920HD

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Travel & Events

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• Manchester Cotton warehouses
• cotton
• spinning
• weaving
• mill engines
• Portland street
• Britannia hotel
• architecture
• mills
• cotton industry
• Arkwright
• spinning jenny
• carding frames
• cotton gin
• panasonic FZ150

[hardball2963]

thanks for the reply sir i am most all the time using the P mode in my fz150 since but experimenting manual and aperture too. hope you can post the "how to use" video of the fz150 soon so it would add more knowledge to me who is very new to photography and to the camera. am eagerly waiting. again many thanks sir and godbless.

[ghough12]

@hardball2963 Thanks, I intend to start the new series this week as I have now shot the stills required for the explanations

[hardball2963]

sir may i know what setting did you use here in these images? are these from manual or program mode or maybe intelligent mode? thanks.

[ghough12]

@hardball2963 These are all in "P" mode and using program shift to select smaller aperture.

[ghough12]

@mrrandom177 Yes I sure did, pressumably going to add some american skyline to the shot.

[mrrandom177]

@ghough12 did you notice the full street width green screen in the back ground ?



[ghough12]

@HelenaMikas Thanks Helena, a lovely city and people.

[HelenaMikas]

Thanks Graham for a wonderful walk down memory lane with the landmarks of Englands Northern city . I love it .. The water there has to be the best . Love the camera .

[ghough12]

@mrrandom177 Hi, watched the vid, I like the camera rig on the quad bike - that would be a great build! I couldn't begin to think how much that "set" costs with all those cars, extras, lighting etc etc. Nice footage from the TZ10

[mrrandom177]

Some great shots here graham. The old mills around the Northern quater are Possibly my faveroute part of Manchester. Are you aware some of the street scenes from the recent Captain America film were shot around the corner from your Northeren Quater shots? check my Captain America on set in Manchester UK video. (shot on the TZ10) Also the The first of the recent Sherlock Holmes movie was shot around there.