Mixed images 1
Worsley Delph, the city centre on a summer afternoon, the sun going down over the airfield, and a street in Ancoats.
Photo gallery
Everything in the archive, arranged by subject. The four mixed galleries hold the photographs that did not belong to a single theme.
- 113Photographs in the archive
- 6Subject sections
- 2001–04Years covered
- 32Pages preserved
Mixed image galleries
Four galleries of photographs that do not belong to a single place or subject: sunsets, night views, canals and street scenes.
Mixed images 2
A weathered fence post in a field, and the full moon rising over an industrial plant with its steam plume lit from below.
Mixed images 3
A canal cutting with a mill chimney, the sun setting behind the Manchester skyline, and a sunset over the sea.
Mixed images 4
City lights deliberately blurred into trails, and a round hay bale silhouetted against the last of the sunset.
By subject
Manchester and the North West
The city from the air, after dark, street by street and as it was rebuilt.
Aviation
Concorde, the Red Arrows, Barton Aerodrome, police aircraft, helicopters and military visitors.
The Manchester Ship Canal
How the canal was built, what it carried, and the locks and bridges that made it work.
Salford Quays
The Manchester Docks before and after: the Lowry, the Imperial War Museum North and the Erie Basin.
Caithness and the far north
John O’Groats, Dunnet Head, Duncansby Head and the coast of the far north.
Liverpool
The Three Graces, the Albert Dock and the Mersey Ferries, and how the Ship Canal changed the city.
Dunham Massey
The house, the Old Mill, the water wheel and the stable block, south of Altrincham.
Photography notes
Aircraft photography, night exposures, working from the air and photographing a changing city.
About the galleries
The four mixed galleries are the oldest part of this archive. They were the first thing that went online, in 2001, before the site had been organised into subject sections, and they hold whatever did not fit anywhere else: sunsets, night photographs, a canal, a fence post. They have been kept as they were rather than merged into the themed sections, because that is what they are.
Photographs are now also grouped by subject — Manchester, aviation, the Ship Canal and the far north — which is a better way to find a particular picture. If you are looking for something specific, the sitemap lists every page in the archive.
Using the photographs
Every photograph on this site was taken by Phill Rawlins between 2001 and 2004 unless the caption says otherwise. Clicking any image opens a larger version. For permission to reproduce anything, see the contact page.
- About this archive
Who took the photographs and why the site exists.
- Photography notes
How the aviation, night and aerial photographs were taken.
- Links
Aviation, canal, heritage and fire service resources.