Perhaps no other city in the UK has undergone the type of transformation Manchester has over the last 30 years. Kickstarted by the building boom that followed the 1996 IRA bomb, large parts of town are now unrecognisable from what they were in the 80s and early 90s.
But in order for such dramatic development to take place it very often means that old streets, landmarks and buildings have to make way. From Shambles Square, to Cannon Street, to the Market Street obelisk and the footbridge over Deansgate, here we take a look back at the bits of the city centre from the 80s and 90s that aren't there any more.
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