>The following article appeared in the UK Newspaper "The Guardian" last
>Saturday.
>Anyone know/heard anything about it?
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>Manchester wants to wash away its image as a rainy city - by creating a
>network of giant sundials. The dials would stretch through the city
centre >linking Salford Quays and the City of Manchester stadium. And
even though >Manchester has 461 fewer hours of sunshine a year than
Paris and 136 less >than London, architects believe the plan would be a
success. One of the >dials would be a staggering 600 feet high and
another could even draw on >solar energy so it can carry on telling the
time during cloudy spells.
><<snip>>
> Mike Shaw
"its image as a rainy city" surely what can have given anyone that idea?
a) the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony
b) some Old Trafford test matches
etc
As a born & bred Mancunian I hope this can go ahead as we seem to have a
lack of decent size dials in the NorthWest, - check your Register for
how many there aren't in Greater Manchester.
I just hope they put some big drain holes in any scaphes!
Anyway there are far rainier spots than Manchester - I seem to remember
passing through some place in Canada not a million miles from next
year's NASS where it boasted(?) that it "rains three days out of every
two"
Ian Maddocks
Altrincham, nr Manchester
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