[Blino]

Visited with buddah, Agour and a couple of non-members

After a cancelled trip to the 'arches' due to the building works, we were at a loose end so decided to go have a look at this place which I noticed a couple of weeks ago.

Theres a couple of reports on here about the building but I cant seem to find much info on it.

Taken from NorthMancBeds' post of last year:

"This late C19 building was originally a paper warehouse and along with no.12 Harter Street backed onto a spur of the Rochdale Canal (now backfilled). The two were built together as a group, but the architect is not recorded in any of the usual sources. The pair were also listed at the same time on the 6th June 1994. No.12 is now the ubiquitous city centre apartment block, but no.2 remains undeveloped. "

The basement of the building housed a nightclub, which seems to have been closed circa 2003 (according to the last flyers on the walls). The basement was weird, quite surreal. There were drinks just left on tables, full ash trays, spirits behind the bar and the pumps still worked! We managed to pour a fresh pint of cider, which looked and smelt fine. Needless to say that no one had the balls to take a swig though!

The main entrance has some quite nice timber paneling to the walls, but other than this the warehouse part of the building is pretty bare.

A few pics..







The following two were behind the lift in the basement..