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Booth Street West, MANCHESTER, M15 6PF

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

New hotel development.

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.

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.

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.

On the corner of Boundary Street. Victorian or Edwardian, glazed tiles below, brick above. When I studied maths at the University of Manchester in 1985-88, this was the mathematicians' pub or so we were told. We had to calculate our own bills and sit on chairs based on conic sections (or that could have been poor workmanship). It was then slightly isolated among empty patches of grass, all of which have since been built on by the university.

The Salutation public house.

Blue plaque on the Boundary Street side of Image CHARLOTTE BRONTË (1816-1855) In 1846 The Revd. Patrick Bronte came to Manchester for a cataract operation accompanied by his daughter Charlotte. They took lodgings at 59 Boundary Street West (formerly known as 83 Mount Pleasant). It was here that Charlotte began to write her first successful novel Jane Eyre 2005

The Salutation, known as "Sal" to regulars, is shown on old maps to have stood at the corner Boundary Street and Higher Chatham Street from at least as early as 1844. It is thought to be one of only two pubs in Manchester to have retained its 1840s decor. The Sal was saved from closure when it was bought by Manchester Metropolitan University in 2011. At the time, a spokesman for MMU said "The Salutation Pub is a local landmark which has been a popular haunt of Manchester Met staff and students over many years. Buying a pub is a bit out of the ordinary but represents a strategic acquisition for the university – surrounded by land which we either own or occupy" (http://www.manchestersfinest.com/articles/save-the-sal/ Manchester's Finest). Originally it was Hardy's house, later a Tetley's house and was owned by Punch Taverns prior to the University takeover. Pub website: https://thesalutationpub.com/about/