Located within 2 St Peter’s Square, just next to the statue of Emmeline Pankhurst, Hive is a 16 foot interactive art installation that was installed back in April 2019. Commissioned by CBRE and created by James Billington (founder of event and floristry...
One of the reasons the Manchester Bee is such a ubiquitous sight around the city centre is its use on street furniture, most notably on bollards and bins but also on other objects as well. Below, I’ll be detailing a number of the its different uses, from the abundant...
The Daily Manchester Bee initally ran from 1st September 2017 though to 1st November 2018 on the @MCRBees twitter account, sharing over 426 different Manchester bees via the hashtag #DailyMCRBee Originally, the plan was to share the ever-growing pile of bee...
Having been documenting the Manchester Bee for a number of years now, it’s interesting to notice themes slowly develop. In this post, I’ll be looking at the uses of bee imagery by Manchester bus companies. The first example is the Bee Line Buzz Company,...
A few miles from Manchester City Centre, Monton in Eccles is dotted with bees. They appear on walls and shutters along Monton Road, created by a variety of artists. Two of them face each other at the top of the connecting Landsdowne road. The side of Playfoots is...
