MediaCityUK
Waterside media district of TV studios and glass towers built on a former dock pier.
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About this audio guide
This guide to MediaCityUK in Salford, Manchester, starts with a former Dock Office worker's one-line verdict on the water in front of you, and follows the docks by their smell and their cargo. It reaches back to a Co-operative steamer on New Year's Day eighteen ninety-four, and forward to the first studios built on this old pier. Best heard on the plaza, facing the basins of the old Dock Nine.
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