As marketeers, estate agents and other vested interests continue to talk up property in Britain’s city centres, the reality begins to emerge in newspaper articles.
A small piece of Manchester’s television history disappeared in November when the transmission tower was removed from the roof of the Granada TV office building.
I saw this sad ad in an estate agent’s window on Deansgate. In case you don’t know, the building that was The Hacienda nightclub was completely demolished in 2002. An apartment block was put up on the site and is now marketed as ‘The Hacienda’.
It seems that Manchester’s Afflecks Palace has been saved.