It was built around 1874 - a time when Manchester had hundreds of public houses to comfort the thousands working in awful conditions in the many mills that made many people rich by paying the lower classes menial wages!
The Plymouth Grove is one of the very few remaining from that era and a monument to the victorian splendour applied to the city's architecture.
It has been boarded up for at least ten years that I know of and has beaten the developers to the extent that it stands alone amongst the modern buildings popping up all over the city.
This may not last for much longer for I have just read that it could be put up for sale and if so - one word; Bulldozer!!
It's distinctive clock tower would have set it as a treasure amongst buildings of its' time and they want to remove it like it never existed and build yet more poncey flats that no one can afford anyway!
A true travesty but here are the images I promised myself I would take for many years!
There is no way in and chances are it would be highly dangerous anyway, I got the internal pics by merely sticking my lens through gaps in the sheet metal that is covering all exits and windows.
The Plymouth Grove is one of the very few remaining from that era and a monument to the victorian splendour applied to the city's architecture.
It has been boarded up for at least ten years that I know of and has beaten the developers to the extent that it stands alone amongst the modern buildings popping up all over the city.
This may not last for much longer for I have just read that it could be put up for sale and if so - one word; Bulldozer!!
It's distinctive clock tower would have set it as a treasure amongst buildings of its' time and they want to remove it like it never existed and build yet more poncey flats that no one can afford anyway!
A true travesty but here are the images I promised myself I would take for many years!
There is no way in and chances are it would be highly dangerous anyway, I got the internal pics by merely sticking my lens through gaps in the sheet metal that is covering all exits and windows.
