Piccadilly Gardens
Busy central square of lawns, fountains and tram stops, ringed by bronze statues of famous Victorians.
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This guide to Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester starts far from the city, on a Sunday afternoon walk in Glasgow early in seventeen sixty-five, with a young instrument maker named James Watt and a university steam engine model he had been asked to repair. It then brings you back to the bronze figure seated on the north side of the gardens, unveiled in eighteen fifty-seven where the Royal Infirmary once stood, and to the sculptors behind it. Best heard standing in front of the seated statue.
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