So, we caught a tram out to the Media City UK Station to visit the Imperial War Museum North. This is a picture of the museum taken from one of the pedestrian walkways across the shipping canal.
We spent a lot of time here; there are lots of displays and also live presentations and movies. Movies isn't really an accurate description though; the large exhibition area is partly divided up into smaller spaces and the movies are shown all over the walls (once an hour, not continuously).
We didn't take any pictures of the exhibits and displays; photography wasn't allowed in the first exhibition room we went into and after that we were caught up in the displays.
After we were finished looking at the museum we went up onto the viewing platform in the Air Shard - the high part of the museum - and we did get some photos there.
This is the Beetham Tower.
We actually first saw this tower during the open top bus tour yesterday; it's the tallest building in the UK outside of London. The guide explained to us that it was designed by an architect called Ian Simpson whose company designed quite a lot of the newer buildings around Manchester. Seems he has made a reasonable profit since he lives on the top three floors of this building, and his living area up there includes a grove of fully grown olive trees that were winched up there while the building was being constructed.
This is another view from the Air Shard, looking down over the canal area:
This is Paul, standing in front of yet another weapon - this time a T55 tank:
After we left the museum we went to the Lowry Outlet Mall, which is quite close by. Yesterday our bus tour was delayed for a few minutes because of the sheer number of coaches parked outside the Mall; it's apparently hugely popular. It wasn't quite so crowded today although there was an inordinate number of people wearing red shirts - there was a Manchester United home game starting at 4pm and a lot of people had apparently decided to check out the mall before the game.
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