The undefeated River Irk ........

Now no matter what three centuries of industrialists and city planners have done, our urban rivers continue to flow and even offer up surprises.

And no more so than the River Irk.

It has been diverted, made to flow in deep and dark channels and harnessed to power all manner of
machinery.

Stretches of it pass out of the human eye but it is still there, and so I am pleased that Andy on his journey through the city and up into Collyhurst last week, stopped to capture this bit of the Irk by Danzic Street.

The buildings that once lined its course have gone but the river remains.

Now that has to be a happy story.

Location; Manchester

Picture; the river Irk, 2018, from the collection of Andy Robertson