Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
One of the very few plainly decorated warehouses in Victorian Manchester, noted for its simple Georgian style. 1850 [10] Watts Warehouse Portland Street, Manchester city centre: Grade II*. Ornate style typifies the extravagant confidence of many Mancunian warehouses of this period, but the Watts Warehouse is notable for its peculiarly eclectic ...
After the BBC selected MediaCityUK as its new operating base in Greater Manchester, Granada progressed its £18m move to the bonded warehouse. [28] About 800 office employees moved to the renovated warehouse, leaving 400 employees in the Granada building which houses three studios. [29] [citation needed]
The formation of 3sixtymedia, a joint venture facilities company based primarily at Granada's Quay Street studios and co-owned by BBC Resources and Granada, spelled the final end for the Tours, as the company moved into the bonded warehouse on the site, and started using some of the other buildings (such as the Starlight Theatre) for additional ...
Early discussions involved a plan whereby the BBC would move to a new media village proposed by Granada Television at its Bonded Warehouse site at Granada Studios in the city. [9] [10] Proposals to relocate 1,800 jobs to Manchester were unveiled by Director-General of the BBC, Mark Thompson, in December 2004.
The new Granada Hotel will have a red neon sign similar to the original TV station. The development will see up to 2,500 homes, up to 600,000 sq ft of workspace, mostly aimed at creative industries, (80,000 sq ft of this via refurbishment of the Bonded Warehouse), up to 400,000 sq ft of leisure space, incorporating some of the existing entertainment and studio buildings. [4]
The 1830 warehouse, Liverpool Road, Manchester, England, is a 19th-century warehouse that forms part of the Liverpool Road railway station complex. It was built in five months between April and September 1830, "almost certainly [to the designs of] the Liverpool architect Thomas Haigh". [1]
The warehouse was built to be fireproof with a steel frame on a rectangular plan, 267 ft (81 m) long by 217 ft (66 m) wide and five storeys high, with 27 windows on the east and west sides and 17 windows on the north and south ends. All four sides have friezes lettered in white brick reading "Great Northern Railway Company's Goods Warehouse". [1]
The Rylands Building is a Grade II listed building and former department store on Market Street in Manchester, England. [2] It is situated in the Smithfield conservation area, which was known for its markets and textile warehouses, [ 3 ] close to the Piccadilly area of Manchester city centre .