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Top 5 Statues at The Trafford Centre

Posted in My Top Tens of Shiny Things on March 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Our countdown to the Top 10 Statues at The Trafford Centre continues with the Top 5.  Catch the rest here…
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The fifth bestest statue at The Trafford Centre, in a Top 10 of no particular order, are the lions at Barton Square. These giant marble beasts stand near British HOME Stores wonderful homewares shop, and come [...]

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Top 10 Statues at The Trafford Centre

Posted in My Top Tens of Shiny Things on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

ART has a vital place here at The Trafford Centre, and our designers have gone to great lengths to drape the Centre in frescoes, murals, scuplture and statues. I trawled the Malls to pick out my favourite statues, and tell you a bit more about them. If you have a favourite which I’ve not included, [...]

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The Trafford Centre goes multicoloured

Posted in Mall News Update on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

WE’VE been enjoying a new look of our own at The Trafford Centre this week, as the long-awaited changes to the lighting system in the Main Dome were finally switched on.
Engineers have replaced the old sodium lighting with sparkly new LED lights, controlled by a central computer. Much like your blog page options, the digital [...]

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Paquiao fans do their boy proud

Posted in People and Faces, tagged , on March 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Well, what a heart-thumping event that was!
Local boxing superstar Ricky Hatton and his minders descended on The Trafford Centre for a very noisy and optimistic fan rally down in The Orient.

More than 70 members of the media came, from afar afield as the Philipines – as well as the usual suspects [...]

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