Yesterday's blog featured some examples of fine craftsmanship and today I am sticking with that theme but I am sharing photos of sculpture and stonework in Manchester Town Hall.
After work yesterday I had a great time with friends visiting Manchester Christmas Market. We met up for drinks and had a lovely tea, it was such a lovely evening. Being Manchester it was cold and sometimes wet but there was a lovely pre-Christmas atmosphere and it was fun strolling around the different stalls.
Some of the stalls were inside the town hall, I had never been inside before and so when I went in I was struck by the beautiful architecture. These pictures were all taken on my mobile phone and I was lucky to avoid getting unwanted people in the shots. I couldn't avoid it totally however although I actually think that the person walking along the corridor in the fifth picture adds something to the shot.
I love the staircase and if it hadn't been closed off to the public I would certainly have run up and down it like a big kid. It reminds me a little of the Grand Staircase at the Chateau de Chambord in the Loire, which was designed by Leonardo Da Vinci and has two stairways in a double helix formation so that people walking down don't meet people going up. It was an amazing and innovative design and well worth the trip to see it.
