tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786934403154990603.post3051717872290812805..comments2024-02-11T08:53:07.478+00:00Comments on Particulations: The Headingley Arndale Centre: Today and YesterdayParticulationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02947346759330291873noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786934403154990603.post-46896216481791525642010-11-22T08:26:42.240+00:002010-11-22T08:26:42.240+00:00Hello Crab Man. Thanks for your interesting psycho...Hello Crab Man. Thanks for your interesting psychogeographical comments. TParticulationshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02947346759330291873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786934403154990603.post-76080215695086462602010-11-22T00:20:47.622+00:002010-11-22T00:20:47.622+00:00we went here with John Davies on his Walking the M...we went here with John Davies on his Walking the M62 adventure - http://www.johndavies.org/sermons/talk-gb-08-08-25.html - "On that walk we also encountered one of Manchester's most remarkable pieces of public art: Thomas Heatherwick's massive metallic explosion outside Sportcity whose title was inspired by Linford Christie's claim that he always left the starting block on the "B of the bang". So Heatherwick's impressive work aims to suggest the primal energy surge which fires every progressive motion. In my diary that day I wrote that<br /><br /> Thoughtful commentators have noted how this might connect with Manchester's recent story of rigourous regeneration, which might be said to have been sparked by the ignition of the IRA bomb at the Arndale Centre in 1996. ... The lady at the Sportcity Visitor Centre repeated a view that I've heard before, numerous times, from Mancunians: that terrible though it was, the bomb woke the city up. It fired an explosion of vital new beginnings. "And no-one was killed," she said.<br /><br />This suggested another walk to us, which we did the following day - a walk from the outskirts of the city right into the epicentre of that IRA bomb, outside Marks and Spencers in the rebuilt Arndale Centre. It was a walk in which we were searching for the 'spark' in the city, the places where the vital energy of Manchester seemed to be. Inevitably perhaps we didn't find much of that sort of energy in the Arndale, bustling though it was." Crab ManAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com