Manchester Craft and Design Centre
Two floors of makers’ studios in a Victorian fish market, free to browse.
Jewellers, ceramicists and printmakers work from open studios around a glass-roofed courtyard with a café in the middle. It is free, dry and a calm counterpoint to the bars outside. Good for presents and for a half-hour out of the rain.
When it works
Indoors, so the weather does not matter. Best morning, afternoon.
Good for going solo and a date.
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