I’m not exactly sure who this is an exact quote from but I know it as the opening line to the song Design For Life by the mighty Manic Street Preachers. I’ve always thought that this was a great lyric, and for some reason I decided that this week I’d spend some time exploring the John Roland’s Library in Manchester. I’ve lived around Grater Manchester all my life but never actually got inside this building. I’m glad I did though as this is a great place to visit, and it’s free!!
My mode of transport into the City Centre these days is by train! Traffic and the awful traffic routing in the city centre have all forced me to use the train. So off I went to Stockport station, I’m still a luddite to the internal combustion engine as I drove to the station! I know, I know! These are a selection of the images from my trip to the wonderful John Roland’s library.
The images are in chronological order! So a walk through if you will!!
Platform 3, bloody hurry up!
Great door, you’d have a job forcing this!
They print there own books here to!
Leading lines and shallow depth of field, love it!
I’m not religious but this is lovely!
Let there be light!
Feels like a church!
The new office is a bit good!
Pick a desk, any desk!
The man himself.
Superb sculptures all over the place!
It got busy, quickly
What goes up!!
Let me out!!!
I bet they use a lot of windowlene in here!
Take me home.
All these images where shot on my Fujifilm X100V, edited in Lightroom.