London Road Fire Station is a former fire station, police station and coroner’s court, in Manchester, England. Open from 1906 until 1974 it was the headquarters of the Manchester fire brigade and is a grade II listed building. In February 2006 a developer revealled plans to transform the building into a music and arts venue.

There would be a 100-bed hotel and a mix of other uses each taking up about 5-10,000 sq ft: recording studios, private club, music academy and archive which has been backed by the council.

As the future of the building isn’t known for sure it is relatively certain it will become this venue.

Further Reading:

Wikipedia.org

Manchester Online

Manchester 2002

Ordsall Lane is a closed railway station in Manchester, UK. Opening in 1849 the station operated for over a hundred years. At first the station was a simple platform but it soon turned into a large station with 5 platforms.

After it’s closed in 1957 the buildings had been demolished by the time of 1966 however the platform remained.

In 1988 a new section of track called the “Windsor Link” was opened. This allowed trains from Preston to proceed straight to Manchester Piccadilly rather than Manchester Victoria. This link joined the original Liverpool and Manchester railroad at the site of the Ordsall Lane station, considerably altering the site.