Just around the corner the Portland Bars. It was the first commercial radio station to broadcast in the city, and went on to launch the careers of a host of star DJs, the likes of Gary Davies, Chris Evans, Andy Peebles, Timmy Mallett, Mike Sweeney, Pete Mitchell, James Stannage, Steve Penk and James H Reeve.Īnd of course my good friend Mr Phil Griffin. The first broadcast was at 5am on April 2nd 1974, it was undertaken by Roger Day, with his first words to the Manchester audience: “It gives me great pleasure for the very first time to say a good Tuesday morning to you… Hit music for the North West…we are Piccadilly Radio” before spinning Good Vibrations. The noisy upstairs neighbours were Piccadilly Radio. The company was eventually sold at a knock-down price and the new owner did not think the name worth having. The retail units famously contained Brentford Nylons.
Piccadilly Plaza now contains the renovated Mercure Hotel it was formerly known as the Ramada Manchester Piccadilly and Jarvis Piccadilly Hotel the refurbishment was completed in 2008. Towering cranes tower over the town, deep holes are dug with both skill and alacrity.Ī Plaza begins to take shape, take a look. The area has also acted as a public transport hub.īut this simply can’t carry on, keep calm and demand a Plaza!ġ965 Architects: Covell Matthews + Partners The Gardens became a festival of floral abundance – in folk memory twinned with the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, but with slightly less hanging. The sunken garden was a remnant of the hospital’s basement.ĭuring World War II the gardens were home to air raid shelters. The Manchester Public Free Library Reference Department was housed on the site for a number of years before the move to Manchester Central Library. The hospital buildings were completely demolished by April 1910 apart from the outpatient department, which continued to deal with minor injuries and dispense medication until the 1930s.Īfter several years in which the Manchester Corporation tried to decide how to develop the site, it was left and made into the largest open green space in the city centre. The Manchester Royal Infirmary moved to its current site on Oxford Road in 1908. In 1755 the Infirmary was built here on what was then called Lever’s Row, in 1763 the Manchester Royal Lunatic Asylum was added.
Well not a great deal, it’s 1772 and the Gardens and Plaza, are as yet undreamt of – the area was occupied by water-filled clay pits called the Daub Holes, eventually the pits were replaced by a fine ornamental pond. Here we are, right at the heart of Manchester.
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