Where do you go?

Article published: Thursday, July 1st 2010

Help write the next MULE feature.

A walk along the canal or a night out in the Northern Quarter?

A park bench or the front row of a cinema?

Everyone has their favourite places in the city and we want you to share yours with us and other MULE readers. In the next issue (due out in August) we, along with the Loiterers Resistance Movement (LRM), will draw up a list of people’s favourite places to go in Manchester. Post a comment on the right hand side of this article and we’ll compile all the suggestions into one feature. If you’ve got an idea for the title of the feature add it to your comment and we’ll consider that too.

Alternatively you can email us at editor@manchestermule.com or add entries via our Facebook page.

Also send us photo’s of you at your favourite location to the email address above.

Here are a couple from the Mule team and LRM:

Tim – Chorlton Water Park

It’s a nice place to go for a walk, close to a bunch of pubs and we’ve had some nice parties and bonfires in there. Lots of nice memories connected with the place. The Greek deli on Deansgate comes a close second. Mmmm veggie mezzi for Saturday lunch.

Joe – Fuel Cafe, Withington

Weekly quizzes with prizes, a wealth of great live music upstairs that ranges from folk acoustic to the downright obscure (notably Solipsists Anonymous which has seen some of the best alternative and twee acts from in and out of the city in a charming and welcoming night), an enticing menu of vegetarian food (speaking as a red blooded carnivore, this says a lot), friendly staff and a range of superb sugar-coma inducing milkshakes. The cafe also boasts a range of paintings from local artists (which are available to buy if you chat to the staff) and all the cups and cutlery are purchased from charity shops.

From LRM’s ‘Cake’ event

The DSS building Aytoun Street.

Its beautiful and neglected and I want to rescue it.

MEN arena.

A very happy childhood memory! Seeing Take That 3 nights in a row and having my beloved grandparents waiting for me patiently every night at the bottom of the steps.

Great Northern Warehouse.

LOVE: What greater symbol of Manchester’s former glory and industrial might – the Beetham Tower of its day.

HATE: that it’s now 500 parking spaces, 16 screens of Hollywood slop and a row of arsehole bars – what greater symbol of Manchester’s runaway regeneration?

Urbis

A beautifully pleasing, aesthetically stunning building of straight lines and mirrors! Reflecting the love of the world

Pavement poem (northern quarter)

I like walking on poetry!

Platt Chapel.

She stole  my socks but I love her

(Poor) Old Elizabeth House.

Forlorn, dilapidated, and due for demoltion any minute now. Easy to dislike but actually plenty to admire if you look past its gloomy pollution stained concrete walls.
London Rd/ Mancunian Way UMIST Tower.

Along with the rest of Umist campus an oasis of calm and serenity in the middle of the city. Lovely murals. Mancunian Way: A symphony of phlanges, grouting and concrete and bearer of the delightful 1968 concrete society awards plaque.

Castlefield Arena.

I went on a date and we ended up drinking wine on the steps – magical.

Affleks.

Beads, tutus and peircings.  What more could someone need?

Express building.

A modernist masterpiece and better than the one on fleet street.

Great northern amphitheatre.

I love the potential of this space, manchesters own Minack theatre or Roman Coliseum.  I hate the waste of that potential.  I also hated working at Bar 38

Matt and Phreds.

Its where we go to let free our thoughts and feel the music

Hotspur press (home of MULE) .

I am intrigued to know whether ‘Percy Brothers ltd’ refers to a Mr(s) Percy and a Mr(s) Brothers or to the Brothers percy or to a Mr Percy Brothers. Anyone know?
Central Library.

A beautiful old shed, sadly about to close whilst they clear out the asbestos. An oasis of calm and home to brilliant moments of theatre and a great and memorable and illegal winetasting. And recently 2 gramaphone DJ and a good place for a brew. AND it has 2 secret tunnels!

Ancoats Pharmacy.

Love a slightly creepy Amityville horror. <cross sign>  Mortisha Adams house, adams family

The Ritz.

Its bouncy floor!  J’adore

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Comments

1. I just like to sit in Hulme park. You watch the joggers go round and round.

   Comment by dave on July 2, 2010 at 12:01 am

2. There’s no place like home! My house (and house mates) are great. We have BBQ’s and parties, nought better.

   Comment by Katie (somewhere in Withington) on July 2, 2010 at 12:04 am

3. Anand’s Indian deli in Rusholme. Great, cheap, genuinely Indian vegetarian grub and the friendliest guy in all Manchester.

   Comment by bill on July 2, 2010 at 7:29 am

4. I like Kims cafe in Hulme, its just a really nice place to hang out and have a coffee.

   Comment by Rach on July 2, 2010 at 8:33 pm

5. Pomona, next to the river Irwell. Near Old Trafford a bit of peace & shush, Lovely bit of nature, leave it alone PEEL HOLDING’S It’s mine………..

   Comment by mark on July 5, 2010 at 2:45 am

6. The Village Book shop on Barlow Moor Road in didsbury – to get to it you have to walk through a teashop called the Art of Tea, which isn’t that special, but the bookshop itself has an excellent selection of rare and out of print books, even good academic and reference books. The paperbacks are great, and range from well-stocked classics to modern fiction. None of it’s shit, either, as there’s a very strict no-shit policy on what stock is or isn’t bought.

   The only problem with it is it can be a bit pricey – £3.50 to £4.50 for a fiction paperback – but all in all it’s worth it.

   Comment by tom on July 6, 2010 at 3:45 pm

7. There’s a lovely little sheltered garden in Platt fields park by the lake, it’s got a clay pizza oven, logs to sit on and lots of nice plants. I think it’s called the eco-garden and it’s looked after by park volunteers.

   Comment by Jen on July 7, 2010 at 10:57 am

8. i love the canals and rivers, the lifeblood of the city and you can feel history, watch the future, escape the bustle and watch some amazing wildlife. and there are no billboards to spoil the view! I agree about pomona too; its a bit special there, i am so sad the hanging garden has been cleared.

   second: library walk, i love the curve and the glimpse of sky and the strange sense of no-place.
   If the rumours of a ceiling come true i for one will be fighting them

   if we are talking about places to spend money third is the britons protection, a proper, decent, friendly pub with fine whiskeys and interesting events

   runners up: umbrella alley, chorlton water park and a secret place i can’t tell the mule about or it will stop being secret xx

   Comment by morag on July 7, 2010 at 2:58 pm

9. The Temple on Oxford Road’s great for good beers and a good jukebox

   Comment by Richard on July 8, 2010 at 10:12 pm

10. Try the Cathedral: always something to look at, people who will talk to you, but will also leave you alone, and quiet to sit, think and pray.

    But on a Sunday you should try Holy Innocents’, Fallowfield (next to the Queen of Hearts on Wilbraham Road). Great music, an inclusive ethos, serious spirituality, and thinking for those who don’t like glib answers or to leave their brains outside.

    Comment by Steph. Pennells on August 26, 2010 at 9:27 am

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