{"id":1431,"date":"2020-02-10T12:58:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T12:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garethhacking.co.uk\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2020-02-10T12:58:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T12:58:58","slug":"the-manchester-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/garethhacking.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/02\/10\/the-manchester-bees\/","title":{"rendered":"The Manchester Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I started the Manchester Bees project back in June 2012, with the aim of answering one simple question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow many bees are there to find around Manchester City Centre?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The above thought occurred when I found and photographed this bee design, located alongside the Rochdale canal. I was aware of the bollards, of course. Dotted all over Manchester City Centre, almost all of them bear the imprint of a bee. I was also aware of Manchester\u2019s coat of arms, with its bees encircling the globe at its top. But how many Bees appear on and in Manchester\u2019s buildings? I set up the original Manchester Bees website as a way of finding out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It quickly became obvious that there were a great deal more than I had expected. From the Palace Hotel clock face bees, to the mosaic bees of Manchester Town Hall, to the Street Sweeper bees of Manchester Day. As the project developed and I kept finding more and more bees, I became interested in finding out how their history and how they\u2019d become integrated into the fabric of the city and its people, which eventually lead to the creation of Manchesterbe.es<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I still don\u2019t yet know the answer to my question, and I doubt I ever will. I keep finding new bees on a regular basis, gathering together hundreds of examples over the years. Hopefully I’ll be able to give a definitive example one day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A brief introduction to my ongoing Manchester Bee project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The Manchester Bees - a brief introduction to my ongoing project.","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[62],"tags":[30,137],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Manchester Bees - Gareth Hacking Photography<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/garethhacking.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/02\/10\/the-manchester-bees\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Manchester Bees - 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