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Mr L Kaye - the mystery man who captured a moment in time along Manchester's canals

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Salford. The landscape for their ill-fated fling, shot in black and white, is one scarred by spent industrial buildings, slums, ships, and the waterside.Yet there is a beauty in their performance and the setting.That era is evoked in a remarkable set of photographs held by the Archives and Local History department of Manchester Central Library.They were taken by a man with immense talent, but about whom little is known.Mr L Kaye took inspired images of Manchester's canals in the 1960s, making a record forever of a time when their importance to industry was diminishing.His work shows how industrial dereliction was beginning but smoke still rose from the chimneys of factories next to the water, and mills and workshops still rumbled in the.

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