A display of model aircraft to symbolise The Battle of Britain and The London Blitz at the Imperial War Museum, North.

Does the sign saying, 'No cameras' apply to me as well?

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The 280 feet (85 m) tall bell tower, houses a carillon of 23 bells: 12 are hung for full circle change ringing and were manufactured by John Taylor Bellfounders. The clock bell, Great Abel, named after Abel Heywood weighs 8 tons 2.5 cwt. The clock was made by Gillett and Bland (predecessor of Gillett and Johnston) and was originally wound using hydraulic power supplied by Manchester Hydraulic Power. The clock bell first rang on New Year's Day 1879 but cracked, and was replaced in 1882 and recast with all the bells in 1937. The clock face bears the inscription "Teach us to number our Days", from Psalm 90:12. The clock bell is inscribed with the initials AH for Abel Heywood and the Tennyson line, "Ring out the false, ring in the true".

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At night time the blue lighting is accentuated, giving a calming, sensual hue that numbs you from the marathon walk from Staff Car Park 2 to Terminal 3 via the station and Terminal 1. It's a distance that you are best to cover on four wheels and definitely not to be attempted by knackered parents with several large suitcases and three screaming kids who have just flown half way across the world. Thankfully they haven't fitted those ultra violet lights that make you glow and remind you of the last time you were in a dockside brothel.

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The Lowry Theatre at Salford Quays

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Also known as the Lowry Bridge the Millennium Bridge was built in 2000 to provide pedestrians with access between The Lowry Centre on the north bank of the Manchester Ship Canal. Since the addition of the Imperial War Museum on the north bank the bridge has been of increasing importance.

It was designed as a lift bridge because the Manchester Ship Canal is still navigable to shipping beyong the bridge. The span comprises a joined pair of bowstring arches 96 metres long which are lifted by hydraulically driven winches assisted by cast steel counterweights at each of the four corner towers. Coloured glass wind deflectors along each edge of the bridge provide pedestrians some protection from the wind.

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