It's a great shame that I had a 35mm film in my camera which never wound on automatically as it should have done, and subsequently all the photos I thought I had taken were lost (and never even captured in the first place). A shame for many reasons since I'd taken some great snaps of many wonderful moments in my life across the millennial year, but also because I came to this spot in Manchester with my old car, Angelica, to take the last pictures of it in April 2000. On that occasion there was a beautiful sky and the pictures were framed much better. That was also the time and place where some of the sound effects provided on this site were originally recorded.

I also came here with Nicolexia shortly after my part-exchange deal, to catch the dawn early one morning. After taking several wonderful close-up shots of the newly constructed Lowry Centre (above) against a rare and spectacular green, lilac and peach sky, I parked here across the water and waited for the sunrise. An hour later, it glistened off the river and all the angles of the surrounding buildings, and I took what I thought was to be the perfect image of Renault 4 and stunning backdrop. The image shall have to rest lost forever as a vague nerve impulse in my head.

As a weak substitute, these pictures, taken on a grey day in March 2001, are better than nothing. The above picture looks across the water to the Lowry Centre in Salford Quays, whilst the abstract building under construction below is part of a complex incorporating the Imperial War Museum of the North, and the Holocaust Museum, on the southern banks of the Manchester Ship Canal.