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Booth Street West, MANCHESTER, M15 6PP

New hotel development.

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

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.

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 pub opened in 1974 as a Wilson's House but soon changed to Watney's. It stands in the shadow of some of Hulme's surviving flats on the corner of Boundary Lane and Booth Street West. Having stood empty for a long time it seemed quite likely to be demolished to make room for yet more student accommodation. http://pubs-of-manchester.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/gamecock-boundary-lane.html In 1993 it was a Belhaven Brewery tied house. http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/lancashire/manchester_m15_gamecock.html but by the time of its closure it was Tetley's house. http://manchesterhistory.net/manchester/pubs/gamecock.html An application for student accommodation on the site was turned down in 2012 on the grounds that the development would be out of scale with the two-storey residential houses nearby, would block out sunlight and there was also a lack of adequate parking. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/application-to-build-giant-block-of-students-693402

Bus stop near Boundary Street West and Cavendish Street.

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.

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.