Whether living in Manchester city centre, or just visiting, Love Manchester will help you plan your time in the city and make sure you enjoy every second of it.

Whether a music lover or wowed by the art and culture this historic city offers, www.love-manchester.com will tell you everything going on in the city on a daily basis: gigs, arts and theatre, exhibitions, and tours made even more vibrant by guest comments, tweets, and reviews.

You’ll also find Manchester’s very own Grapevine; spilling news and gossip about the Manchester scene by Manchester’s very own people. We hope you enjoy it.  Go and play in the city you love.

http://www.love-manchester.com

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Band On The Wall Scheduled to reopen its doors again on September 25th 2009 – Full line up on their new site here

Band on the Wall is a not-for-profit Manchester venue run by the registered charity Inner City Music. They exist to present the best music from around the world and support our main stage events with a dynamic education programme which operates throughout the year -  both in the venue, in the community and at local schools.

Nice to see the old place back up & running.. good luck with the launch

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London Road Fire Station. This is & has been for many years one of my favourite pieces of Manchester architecture, designed and built between 1904 – 1906 by Woodhouse, Willoughby & Langham, the building used to be the home of Manchester’s fire department, the coroners court & police station.

For many years the building has been left untouched & undeveloped which is a real shame for such a unique piece of architecture. The dirty red terracotta isn’t typical of buildings in Manchester & probably used to overcome the acid rain & smog of early 20th century Manchester.

I heard on BBC Manchester recently that Manchester City Council was trying to buy the building back, & may at some point impose a compulsory purchase order.. The current owner, hotelier Alex Langsam, has proposed to re-develop the Grade 2 listed landmark into a hotel, offices for his company and a fire station museum.

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It looks like the BBC Manchester Website has had a facelift. Not before time if you ask me.. Theres so much going on our great city I was always suprised about how little was published on the Manchester BBC site. Anyway nice job on the improvements.. keep up the good work

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I love this… this is slightly embarrassing.. after living in Manchester all my life “42 yrs” (yes i’m really that old… ) I only very recently found out this fact.

The real centre of Manchester is located at St Ann’s Church (St Ann’s Sq Manchester) & not Manchester Town Hall (as most maps indicate) St Ann’s was originally built on Acres Field.

This was the centre of the social gathering in Manchester & where the annual harvest fair was held. The benchmark symbol in the picture was left by surveyors & cartographers to mark the very centre of Manchester. The original mark was left at the base of the Tower at St Ann’s Church in the 1700’s. The tower was taken down in 1777 for safety reasons, but the benchmark symbol still remains visible at the tower door. For those really interested in local history, a visit to St Ann’s Church in Manchester is a must.

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