A quick trip on the Irwell

Having had our beer tent cancelled due to flooding, we have had the hottest weekend of the year, just to rub it in.

  Monday I went down to the Mark Addy in Manchester for a "Meet the Producer" event for Visit Manchester.  The Mark Addy is a great little riverside pub on the side of the Irwell in Salford, an area known as the Irwell Rivierra.

We went onboard a widebeam boat called the Emmeline Pankhurst, who was one of the great campaigners for womens rights in post Victorian England.

There are some great views of Manchester from the River, starting with the newly developed Salford Quays.

And the Imperial War Museum.

There are still a couple of old ships in the last part of Salford docks, but I believe these are going to be removed and the docks built over.

This is what used to be the entrance to the Castlefield area docks

Returning towards the Mark Addy, there are three bridges, The first carries the railway to the nearby Deansgate station, the second is apparently the oldest railway bridge in England, and the third is a new road bridge.

Finally returning to the Mark Addy under a new pedestrian bridge linking Castlefield to salford