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Charles Street, MANCHESTER, M1 7DF

Global Vision College was located in a purpose built high tech building with 5 floors, situated in the heart of Manchester City Centre. It was previously home to Emile Woolf College which was established there in 1990 until it was bought by Kaplan College a couple of years ago. Crews were called to the five-storey Global Vision building on Charles Street at 23:25 BST on Sunday 1st July 2012. The ground floor was completely destroyed and the rest of the building suffered smoke damage. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-18671268

BBC New Broadcasting House, The regional headquarters of BBC North West on Oxford Road, was officially opened by Prime Minister James Callaghan in 1976. The building is due to close in 2011 when BBC North West will relocate to the BBC's new northern "media hub" at MediaCity:UK, currently under construction at Salford Quays, Greater Manchester. Update: The building was vacated in November 2011 when the BBC completed its move to MediaCityUK and, less than a year later, was just a pile of rubble (Image]).

Looking east along Charles Street. The foremost building is this: Image Beyond are the backs of some of the old warehouses on Princess Street. University buildings to the right.

On Oxford Road at Charles Street.

At the junction with Charles Street, Oxford Street becomes Oxford Road. The vacant plot on the opposite corner is the site of the since demolished BBC New Broadcasting House.

Looking along Charles Street, past the remains of the former New Broadcasting House. New Broadcasting House, the regional headquarters of BBC North West on the site bounded by Oxford Road, Charles Street, Brancaster Street and the River Medlock was built between 1971 and 1975; it was officially opened by Prime Minister James Callaghan in 1976. The building was vacated in November 2011 when the BBC completed its move to MediaCityUK and now, less than a year later, is just a pile of rubble.

Building on the corner of Oxford Road and Charles Street, opposite the now-vacated BBC building.

Novelty rubbish bin in Manchester Presumably fans of other bands have to dump their rubbish elsewhere.

Viewed from the top deck of a bus approaching Oxford Road Station.

Decent Portland stone corner building with stripped-down details, the Ionic columns and pilasters spanning the second and third floors adding a touch of monumentality. Perhaps influenced by developments in the US, and certainly a world away from Image] even though this might be only ten or twenty years later. Now known as Oxford Place, flats above shops.