We went to Manchester today in order to start the Christmas shopping, although for me it turned into a buying feast at the Apple Store. Very nice head phones ably demonstrated by Janez who easily relieved me of, oh loads of money. And then across the mall into Bose. I will take a very serious look laters into one of its systems with the help of the delightful assistant store manager Bobbie. I do so like modern shopping.
The other thing we wanted to do was visit the Town Hall to see the
Ford Madox Brown murals in the great hall. We were not allowed to photograph them so they're over Chris's shoulder. Very curious set of historical tableaux. It's as if the industrial revolution hadn't happened and classical economic liberal capitalism wasn't both paying for the gothic splendour of this place and grinding the faces of the poor. Whilst all of that was going on, Engles was busily making enough money in next door Salford to bank-roll Marx, and actually revealing the living evidence of unregulated capital exploitation. Sort of, Marx answers the Ricardo question 'where does the profit come from' whilst Engles does the lived experience part. As for the artwork, the craftsmanship is fine. The detail of this building is rather impressive and it really, really does look and feel like being in a kind of cathedral with board rooms and offices. Or as I once loftily intoned to Al Cohen 'the town hall proclaims to the world Manchester's dedication to making (more) money'. I can also never understand how Manchester gets off Scot free over the slave trade and Liverpool cops all the blame. How did they do that? Where do people think the cotton was going when it reached Liverpool.
However to extend and enhance that 19th century attention to detail, look below at the present day arts and crafts modification to the tile-work. A brilliant understatement is made by the inspired asymmetrical addition of an emergency telephone instrument.
We went to Manchester today in order to start the Christmas shopping, although for me it turned into a buying feast at the Apple Store. Very nice head phones ably demonstrated by Janez who easily relieved me of, oh loads of money. And then across the mall into Bose. I will take a very serious look laters into one of its systems with the help of the delightful assistant store manager Bobbie. I do so like modern shopping.
The other thing we wanted to do was visit the Town Hall to see the Ford Madox Brown murals in the great hall. We were not allowed to photograph them so they're over Chris's shoulder. Very curious set of historical tableaux. It's as if the industrial revolution hadn't happened and classical economic liberal capitalism wasn't both paying for the gothic splendour of this place and grinding the faces of the poor. Whilst all of that was going on, Engles was busily making enough money in next door Salford to bank-roll Marx, and actually revealing the living evidence of unregulated capital exploitation. Sort of, Marx answers the Ricardo question 'where does the profit come from' whilst Engles does the lived experience part. As for the artwork, the craftsmanship is fine. The detail of this building is rather impressive and it really, really does look and feel like being in a kind of cathedral with board rooms and offices. Or as I once loftily intoned to Al Cohen 'the town hall proclaims to the world Manchester's dedication to making (more) money'. I can also never understand how Manchester gets off Scot free over the slave trade and Liverpool cops all the blame. How did they do that? Where do people think the cotton was going when it reached Liverpool.
However to extend and enhance that 19th century attention to detail, look below at the present day arts and crafts modification to the tile-work. A brilliant understatement is made by the inspired asymmetrical addition of an emergency telephone instrument.
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