The Tube is a basement nightclub in Manchester, UK. Cans of beer still litter it and some of the pumps even work despite their age. There is bottled of water and other drinks all well beyond their expiry date.

The entrance to the roof is a big of a tricky one as it involves a scrable past gears over an open lift shaft, you slip, you die!

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Built as the “Refuge Assurance building” between the years 1891 – 1895 by Alfred Waterhouse from glazed terracotta and redbrick building it was one enormous open business hall.

In 1910 – 1912 it was extended with a 217ft tower along oxford road by Paul Waterhouse, son of Alfred Waterhouse.

Further extensions were added to Whitworth Street in 1932 by Stanley Birkett

Finally it was converted into the Palace hotal in 1996 and is a grand Grade II listed building and at well over £100 per night to stay there it attracts the worlds elite.

Fast forward to 2008 and boy does that roof look like it needs to be cracked! Being up there is being in a different world, it has the feelings of a New York rooftop.

Further Reading:

Official Website

Wikipedia.org

Built in 1972 the Ramada Renaissance Hotel it stands 15 floors and 184 feet in height the views from the top are absolutely spectacular of piccadilly gardens and the surrounding area.

Cine City opened in 1912 as “The Scala” and was open and showing pictures for nearly a hundred years in four screens, closing in July 2001. Cine City, the first cinema in Manchester and the third cinema to open in England.

It was threatened with demolishion in 2005 but was saved after objections from heritage groups however now in 2008 scaffolding has been put up and work begun on the inside to prepare it for demolishion. The building will make way for a new apartment building with ground floor shop.

Visited twice: January 31st and February 6th 2008

Further Reading:

Wikipedia

Manchester Evening New Article 1, 2