Proctor Youth Centre 1 Hulme Street M15 6HF - a victim of city's spending cuts
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Proctor Youth Centre 1 Hulme Street M15 6HF - a victim of city's spending cuts
Image: © Steve Nesbitt Taken: 11 Aug 2013
Proctor Youth Centre 1966-2011. Despite being in singularly ugly building, it was very popular, providing a wide range of activities such as pool, football and martial arts, to name but a few. In 2009 the premises were refurbished with £668,000 being spent on a weights room, dance studio, recording studio. Then two years later Manchester City Council did the logical thing - closed it! Some of the eight staff offered to take a pay cut but to no avail. There were plans to use the building as a pupil referral unit. Today the building stands in the middle of wasteland that is the process of redevelopment http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/game-over-moss-side-youth-857162. I don't know the origin of the graffiti. In 2012 there was an arts/culture festival 'Abandon normal Devices' in an adjacent carpark.
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Image Location
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53.47101
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