NEWS AWAKENING – JUNE 2015

Here is miscellany of heritage and architecture news over the past month…

Greater Manchester…

The places we miss most in Manchester

Underground Manchester: Tunnels, a tube station and even shops hidden beneath the city’s streets

Manchester town hall clock tours: stunning pictures

Vision for Princes Gate, Oldham

WW1 exhibition launched at the Pioneers Museum, Rochdale

Broadfield Stile, Rochdale

Salford’s historic Peel Park is to get £1.6m facelift

Salford relic gets a ‘bling’ new look as part of £5.5m canal restoration

Horwich Children remember the Great War

Controversial plan for Ramsbottom town centre

Medieval graves hidden beneath Bolton Parish Church

Plan to cut into front of Bolton Town Hall could be scrapped

Elisabeth Mill, Reddish, to become 150 plush flats

Victoria Baths, Longsight, welcomes back wrestling show

Salford Local History Library to close until September

QA to move into Bruntwood’s St James’, Manchester

London Road Fire Station, Manchester: investors from China, the Middle East and America show interest

Debate to determine future of historic London Road Fire Station

Rochdale windfarm plan is thrown out by town hall chiefs

Dig the City 2015: Share your childhood garden memories

Further afield…

New lease of life for Nelson mill, Heritage Trust for the North West

Manchester student unlocks secret behind 500-year-old painting

Parliament facelift could cost £7bn

UK Monuments Men bid to save sites

Stephen Fry unveils Blue Plaque for novelist Georgette Heyer