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»The inwardly workings of my inner spatial doings.«
The Quays, Salford, Greater Manchester M50 3AG
Paulo Costaferrata
last updated on 03-11-2008:
Now is the time to hit the Lowry Outlet Mall for you gifts. You can buy a whole host of things from this outlet these days. It’s really come on from days as a 'Out of ghost town Mall’ - there’s even a Black and Decker discount shop (that’s a few Xmas gifts taken care of!).
I reckon I can find many more things on my Xmas shopping list from this Marks and Spencer’s discount store. From fancy bathroom products, to Royally endorsed biscuits and lingerie to kitchen products - they’re all on sale here, at far cheaper prices than in their main stores. I always find the stores (even the modern building M & S in the city) to be a little staid. I think somebody bought some 'underpants’ from here once, but I just never felt like wearing them. Clothes aside though, you can usually pick up gifts for family members more fitting of M & S’s charms.
This store is by no means as large as the main city store, but it manages to fit in a lot for the size. From the evening gowns section you’ll find a view overlooking Old Trafford Football Club.
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140 The Quays, Salford, Greater Manchester M50 3AG
Paulo Costaferrata
last updated on 03-11-2008:
One of my first port of calls for clothes shopping at the moment. Many top name brands of clothes are all represented here but at a fraction of their high street cost. I’ve kicked myself for not discovering this place earlier. Fantastic range of Jeans (usually half what you would normally expect to pay), shirts, tee-shirts, jackets, dresses, skirts all at mouth opening prices.
I’ve been kitted out here recently, it took me about 30 minutes to do so. A week earlier I’d spent several hours in the city and couldn’t find a thing. Of course, being a discount store they’re never guaranteed to stock everything you’d like, and there’s a large amount of stock best left in the stock room. But I’d bet on most people managing to find something they’d wear in here for 'credit crunchy crashing’ prices.
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140 The Quays, Salford, Greater Manchester M50 3AG
Paulo Costaferrata
last updated on 03-11-2008:
This is the discount version of the famous Manchester store back in the city centre. The kind of shop I don’t really contemplate entering (for I am not a well paid footballer) but also they don’t really sell the types of clothes I usually wear (I do smart, under duress, but a couple of times a year).
However I never say never and now again something will catch my eye and my brains tells me “That would look great on you on holiday”. Usually it’s right, but then I never end up wearing it again following that one time in a restaurant, near a beach, in somewhere hot (a white linen shirt, worn once stands testament to that). Still, there are some remarkable discounts to be had here. You can literally 'save’ hundreds of pounds such are the mark downs on many items. Usually however, the items at such discounted prices have a reason for being so: they tend to be the wrong end of garish and flamboyant and 12 sizes too large. But persevere and you just might grab an absolute gem for a very good price. I think the Women’s department (I say department, but it’s just a large open plan one floor shop) is more represented than the Men’s but there’s not much in them. Look out for a good price on shoes too.
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The Quays, Salford, Greater Manchester M50 3AG
Paulo Costaferrata
last updated on 03-11-2008:
Huge version of the smaller city centre bar near Albert Square. I’ve always had a soft spot of Lime. One of those nice looking bars but without the pretentious buffoons who usually populate the place (thankfully they now have their quarantined areas of the city you can afford wholesale).
I’m grateful that Lime opened at the Quays. I thought it was a good move, and given the continued take up and footfall of the area, it will hopefully pan out well over the years. I’ve been in a few times and I can’t say I need to wait long at the bar. I’m sure given it’s capacity it would 'bounce’ during a party or reception but it’s always been a little quiet, I guess for the main part due to it’s location. But the BBC will be moving many departments almost directly across the ship canal in a couple of years (the Mediacity development is moving very quickly indeed) so eventually I can Lime doing very well.
I took my father-in-law in here as we fancied a quick beer following a trip to the nearby Imperial War Museum North: he loved it. Unlike anything I think he’d ever drank in before (more used to rural pubs in Norfolk).
Alongside the usual array of drinks (real cask ale not really part of the menu) you can pick up some decent grub too.
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The Quays, Salford, Greater Manchester M50 3AG
Paulo Costaferrata
last updated on 03-11-2008:
Costa seemed to have been pushed aside by the likes of Starbucks and Cafe Nero, but I’m seeing increasing number of these coffee chains in and around the city and it’s suburbs. Aside from the fact they dominate every other street and it’s corners much to the fright of independent retailers, who increasingly find it difficult to set up shop in our cities, these places are nevertheless pleasant cafes.
More for want of better choice within the Lowry Outlet Mall than anything else, I always seem to pop in here for a quick coffee (and if I’m feeling slightly controversial, a biscotti) whenever I’m shopping here. Given talk of the recession and corner cutting I guess I’ll find myself at this slowly revitalised Lowry Outlet Mall over the next few months. Bargains galore are to be had here and now that the footfall has significantly increased (the BBC are moving departments nearby soon enough) is a better shopping experience than is used to be just a few years ago (tumbleweed often viewed).
Newspapers and magazines are available in the most comfortable of seating: pleasant lighting and decor lull you into another world just for those 30 minutes you spend inside these coffee shops.
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