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Located in the grounds of and sponsored by the Crowne Plaza & Stalybridge Suites, Beejing was created by Jessica Perrin. "This Bee fuses two cultures in one harmonious piece. Jessica wanted to design a sculpture fit to stand in the courtyard of a Chinese emperor and celebrating the dragons found in the folklore and art of ancient China. The bright and vivid colours bring life to a Chines traditional style hosted in the heart of Manchester - allowing the art of two peoples to come together." The Crowne Plaza & Stalybridge Suites is a dual-branded 19-storey, 328 roomed hotel which opened in 2018.

Located in the grounds of and sponsored by the Crowne Plaza & Stalybridge Suites, Beejing was created by Jessica Perrin. "This Bee fuses two cultures in one harmonious piece. Jessica wanted to design a sculpture fit to stand in the courtyard of a Chinese emperor and celebrating the dragons found in the folklore and art of ancient China. The bright and vivid colours bring life to a Chinese traditional style hosted in the heart of Manchester - allowing the art of two peoples to come together." The Crowne Plaza & Stalybridge Suites is a dual-branded 19-storey, 328 roomed hotel which opened in 2018.

New hotel development.

Massive development which stretches across Oxford Road into Booth Street East. By Wilson & Womersley, 1970-72, for the University of Manchester. It was designed with elevated walkways over the main roads - that over Booth Street West which connected to the Royal Northern College of Music (just left of shot) has gone, but was there when I was a student in 1985-88, leaving that over Oxford Road as the only relic of that particular scheme (Image]). The Business School, part of the University, occupies the near part of the building seen here, while the next two sections with the semi-circular glazed staircase is now occupied by some sort of university innovation centre (the Harold Hankins Building). In its previous incarnation as a hall of residence, Cornbrook House, I called it home for two of my student years. We didn't need centres to go to innovate in my day, we had pubs. I have to confess it looks unnaturally orange in this photo. I haven't doctored it so I will blame the low summer sun.

The large red building on the left labelled "Liberty Living" is given over to student accommodation.

The school was formed in 1984 as a merger of Bishop Greer and Fallowfield schools. The new building fronting Higher Cambridge Street opened in 2014.

Probably a former estate pub, not especially interesting to the casual observer, but possessing a certain nostalgia value for me and so I'm sorry to see it fall on hard times. While a student in Manchester living in a nearby hall of residence, Cornbrook House, a few of us made this pub a reasonably regular haunt. We would often play darts. This was in 1987/88 and people would have you believe that in the bad old days of Hulme, before the crescents were pulled down, it wouldn't have been possible for a group of students to enter a locals' pub like this and emerge with their limbs intact. However, there was never a sniff of trouble. Update and more info: Image

The Gamecock public house.

The Crowne Plaza ® Manchester – Oxford Road and Staybridge Suites® Manchester – Oxford Road properties are being built as part of The University of Manchester‘s £1 billion campus development. The two hotels are part of the Alliance Manchester Business School Campus Masterplan https://www.mbs.ac.uk/about/campus-masterplan/ and are due to open in Summer 2018.