Islington Way, Salford 6.44am The birds seemed louder on this morning, than they had...

DUCIE STREET, MANCHESTER 6.49am The Piccadilly Eastern sky was covered in cloud, so that...

HULME PARK 6.34AM Hulme Park exists adjacent to the Mancunian Way, its grass and...

FIRST LIGHT: 06.06  SUNRISE: 07.22 It was an odd morning, where I felt out...

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I actually began in Macclesfield Forest, on the night of the full moon for...

PICCADILLY STATION 04.22AM April 2020 LISTEN TO DAWN AUDIO FROM PICCADILLY Manchester Piccadilly comes...

ANGEL MEADOW, 4.36am April 2020 Listen to the birdsong at dawn in Angel Meadow...

The work ‘From Old Mill To The End Of Empire’ was recently displayed as...

Livesey Street, 7.28AM The previous day marked 12 months since my first post on...

DUCIE STREET 7.18AM This was a morning when nothing much happened. The rain fell...

EMPIRE STREET 7.13AM The dawn promised little. It was overcast, leaving the buildings below...

STANLEY STREET 7.44AM The temperature was only just above freezing. Instinct took me to...

PORT STREET, 7.29AM I was helping a friend’s young boy build a Lego spacecraft...

DANTZIC STREET, 7.10AM I keep coming back to Dantzic Street. The bridges fascinate me,...

OLD MILL STREET, NEW ISLINGTON 7.16AM In the still of dawn, before the roar...

BROUGHTON STREET, CHEETHAM HILL, 7.41AM I was driving home and Joni Mitchell came on...

ANGEL MEADOW, IRK TOWN 7.29AM It’s been nearly a year since I started this...

OLDHAM STREET 7.35AM The previous night I’d begun to read The Manchester Man, written...

THE FISHMARKET, NORTHERN QUARTER 7.19AM On New Year’s Eve in 2014 I hadn’t even...

ROCHDALE ROAD 7.17AM I’d been out the night before in The Millstone pub, one...

ANGEL MEADOW 7.37AM It wasn’t the Shortest Day after all. Never assume. I’d always...

SADLER’S YARD 7.20AM When my kids were little I used to love building them...

WHITTLE’S CROFT 6.17AM The rain was bouncing off my hood, the tippy-tap noise being...

NEWTON STREET & THE ACCIDENTAL TRICOLOUR 6.35AM Following the awful events in Paris a...

DANTZIC STREET 6.48AM It’s funny what things you notice in adverts, that lodge in...

CHEETHAM HILL ROAD 6.06AM I was house sitting for a friend in the south...

JERSEY STREET, ANCOATS, 6.07AM Is the sense of change greater with Autumn than with...

TIB STREET, NORTHERN QUARTER, MANCHESTER 7.27AM When I tweeted an iPhone picture after this...

GUN STREET, ANCOATS 6.32AM Today the clocks were turned back. Rain lingered like a...

SHERBOURNE STREET, CHEETHAM HILL 7.22AM I was a still a boy when I first...

MANGLE STREET, NORTHERN QUARTER 7.04AM Back Piccadilly forms the city centre boundary to this...

JERSEY STREET, ANCOATS 6.41AM The top of Jersey Street is separated from the creators...

RUSTICA, TIB STREET, 7.03AM The day before had started chaotically, as my alarm didn’t...

LITTLE LEVER STREET, 6.50 AM The buildings clustered around Little Lever Street allow very...

LITTLE LEVER STREET 6.51AM A SLOW MOMENT FILM The area around Little Lever Street,...

VICTORIA STATION, MANCHESTER 6.47AM Two nights before there had been the Autumn Equinox, when...

CORNELL STREET, ANCOATS, 6.24AM It felt, on this early Autumn morning, that there was...

PASSIONS, DUCIE STREET, 5.36AM This morning there was the musk scent of early Autumn....

RADIUM STREET, ANCOATS 5.43AM My alarm went off at 4am, and a couple of...

STORE STREET, PICCADILLY 4.43AM When I can see that the dawn will be clear...

A PATCH OF GREEN, SWAN STREET 4.29AM I wasn’t intending to get up on...

BELOW NEW UNION STREET, ANCOATS, 4.21AM When I awoke I had that moment a...

JUTLAND STREET, MANCHESTER 3.48AM – Jutland Street is perhaps the oddest street in Manchester....

JUNE 21st, THE LONGEST DAY, 2015 The Longest Day began with me dancing on...

JERSEY STREET, ANCOATS 6.33AM – There’s a sense of growing affection for Ancoats. No...

OLD MILL STREET, NEW ISLINGTON, ANCOATS 4.16AM – I’ve recently returned from North Carolina...

CHATLEY STREET, CHEETHAM HILL 5.26AM – I’ve always wondered what was in the minds...

HILTON STREET, MANCHESTER 4.31AM – It had rained in the early hours of the...

OLD MILL STREET, 4.27AM – Old Mill Street, where the Ancoats Dispensary still exists,...

THOMAS STREET, 4.42AM – It was my first time photographing on a Saturday morning....

OLDHAM ROAD, 4.57AM, ELECTION DAY – The alarm went off at 3.50am, and the...

DERBY STREET, CHEETHAM HILL  5.15AM – At 4AM, which is now my waking up...

BACK ST. GEORGE’S ROAD 6.31AM – It rains a lot in Manchester, or so...

LUDGATE HILL 6.03AM – I’ve always felt that the soul of Not Quite Light...

EMPIRE TAKE-AWAY, EMPIRE STREET 5.50AM – I’d gone to drive around Cheetham Hill the...

DUCIE HOUSE, LAYSTALL STREET, 6AM – Ducie House used to be where the legendary...

CAR PARK, DUCIE STREET, 6.33AM – This morning, the first after the Easter holidays,...

LEVER STREET, MANCHESTER 6.00AM – On the streets at dawn there is a relationship...

JERSEY STREET, MANCHESTER 6.20AM I was at a friend’s house recently and Scooby Doo...

KELVIN STREET, MANCHESTER 6.14AM I was driving around the city with my partner recently,...

REDBANK, TOWARDS THE GREEN QUARTER, MANCHESTER 5.50AM I’ve always been an owl, enjoying late...

SWAN STREET, MANCHESTER 7.19AM “WHERE YOUR ACCENT IS AN APHRODISIAC I was in bed,...

FARADAY STREET, MANCHESTER, 6.09AM I was looking at this scene a few days back,...

I’d seen the abandoned pub on Honey Street the previous evening, whilst eating a...

CREAMLINE DAIRIES, REDBANK, MANCHESTER 5.55AM I awoke at 4.55AM to a single bird chirruping,...

ENGLAND’S NEW YORK – DALE STREET, MANCHESTER 5.52AM & TARIFF STREET 6.18AM A friend...

ROCHDALE CANAL, MANCHESTER 6.14AM The dawn breaks earlier now, and I have to be...

GOULDEN STREET CAR PARK, MANCHESTER, 7.28AM I’ve sometimes parked my car in Goulden Street,...

The weather forecast from the previous evening had promised clear skies, but I awoke...

REDBANK, MANCHESTER, 7.33AM About a week ago, during one of my evening walks with...

RIVER IRK, EDGE OF THE GREEN QUARTER, MANCHESTER. 7.04AM The previous evening my flatmate...

MJT MOTORS, GOULD STREET, 7.36AM My flatmate has a dog, an English Bull terrier....

WHERE ONCE STOOD UNITED BUILDINGS, OLDHAM STREET, 7.17am I know the streets of Manchester’s...

NEW GEORGE STREET, SMITHFIELD SQUARE, MANCHESTER. 7.32AM Despite there being two chain hotels and...

ALIEN LIGHTS, THOMAS STREET 6.51am I’d set down my tripod outside Bar 21 on...

HAND CAR WASH, DANTZIC STREET. 7.20am This morning the sky was clear. A pure...

CAGED JAGUAR, FARADAY STREET. 7.35AM Manchester is unfairly famed for its rain. If it’s...

THE ANGEL, MANCHESTER 6.55am Each morning I only have around 35 minutes to work...

LUDGATE STREET, MANCHESTER, 7.06am I work in a simple fashion, and so it’s easy...

FOUNDRY LANE, NORTHERN QUARTER, MANCHESTER, 7.15am Foundry Lane was mostly an empty street at...

CABLE STREET CAR PARK, MANCHESTER, 7.01am Much of the land around the norther edge...

The butty. A staple of breakfast diets. Swan Street was recently discovered to be...