Double core...

Yet another new build office block in central Manchester. The speed at which the city is changing is giddy. And, for the first time in a VERY long time, there are more job vacancies in the city than there are people to fill them. A happy position we share only with Cambridge. Well technically this new building isn't in Manchester at all as it's across the river in our sister city of Salford. But, to the people who will move in, they are in Manchester.

It's an area called New Bailey and is an extension to the amazingly successful Spinningfields development on the Manchester bank of the Irwell. The area got it's name from the New Bailey Prison, a Victorian house of correction, that used to be on this site. Before they started building, the archaeologists were sent in to see what they could find. The found the foundations of the prison and very interesting they were.

At the moment, all we can see of the new building are these two cores....