Manchester Central, exhibition and convention centre
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Manchester Central, exhibition and convention centre
Image: © Christopher Hilton Taken: 25 Oct 2010
Formerly Manchester Central station, then used from the mid 1960s to the early 1980s as a car park, this building became a convention centre initially under the name G-MEX. Among events hosted here was 1986's Festival of the Tenth Summer, an event marking ten years since the Sex Pistols played at Manchester's Little Free Trade Hall and kick-started Manchester's punk and post-punk scene; most of the survivors of that scene played at the 1986 Festival. The site is now known as Manchester Central.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.476133
Longitude
-2.246753