From 1970 onwards, it was the nerve centre of the paper's news gathering operation, until September last year when the M.E.N. moved into new premises around the corner in the specially-named Scott Place, off Hardman Street.
Demolition of the old Deansgate building was part of the £1bn redevelopment of the Spinningfields area.
Now, for the first time, passers-by can see the frontage of the £30m magistrates' court, which was opened two years ago to replace the city's outdated court building in Crown Square.
Also visible is the newly extended John Rylands Library, which is soon to re-open after an £8m renovation project.
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The Spinningfields scheme - the largest of its kind in the north west - is a partnership between Manchester council and developer Allied London. It combines commercial, residential, civic, leisure and retail uses, including the new £160m Civil Justice Centre.
The M.E.N's move last year was only the fourth in the newspaper's distinguished history. It began life with little more than a dozen staff in Brown Street, but quickly grew and in 1879 moved to an imposing building in Cross Street, which it shared with The Manchester Guardian.
The newspaper's subsequent move to Deansgate, after 91 years of publishing on the site which gave way to the Arndale Centre complex, proved one of the trickiest removal feats in Manchester's history, with 300 tons of heavy machinery and office furniture shifted half a mile across the city.
The move to Scott Place, named after pioneering Guardian owner and editor C P Scott, was part of a historic weekend for Manchester, in which the government of the day held its annual conference in the city for the first time.
The new HQ of the Guardian Media Group - of which the M.E.N. is a part - is now home to editorial staff of the Evening News, along with colleagues working for M.E.N. Media's web team, the northern operation of The Guardian and Guardian Media Group advertising, sales and finance staff.
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The Increase by 3p to the M.E.N.Recently will help pay towards the new Stott place. yet office yuppies still can get the paper free of charge in the City Centre. us o.a.ps kept that paper going for years waiting in cold newsagents shops for the final edition to arrive in the winter evenings.
Im no Office Yuppie...
You have the opinion like most old dears do... Young peopel deserve nothing , but im old so i do?
When are you going to realise that a lot of young people put more in to the country now , than you have left in you?
Back to the story...
Can anyone tell me if the site is going to be built on or is to remain an open public space (hopefully with some trees/flowers/grass)
maybe we can build something to complement the truly historical building next door, the Rylands library.
It seems that while Manchester is progressing on most fronts, the historic buildings that I grew up with, including the Guardian Building and the subsequent change to Deansgate, happened without I knowing about it. Please keep the heritage of my city of Manchester alive, don't knock it all down in the name of progress. I am no longer living in Manchester and have not for many years, however, it is where my heart is. Take care of it please. Patricia O'Driscoll formerly of Ivygreen Road (Daly's No 46)
jsac
I shall go and have myself put down immediately for being old so that you can have a job and probably earn less in a week than I contribute in taxes.
My contributions to my local community in my spare time will also vanish but I don't suppose for one moment that would matter either.
IvygreenRose, I totally agree with you, but unfortunately the authorities want to turn Manchester into a giant greenhouse and there is very little that people seem to want to do to stop them.
There is no way that any modern architecture could ever meet the standard that the library is built and designed to.
They will more likely build yet another big glass building that defies gravity and use the "B.S. baffles brains" theory to sell it to the public.
jsac1984, you certainly jump to a lot of conclusions about a person and their opinions based just on short comment they have left. Sounds like you have a bit of chip on your shoulder to me. Personally, I think most older people should be respected for the contrubions they made to our society that my generation now take for granted. Letting them have a decent old age/retirement after often working all their lives and often being exploited in the process, isn't much to ask.
Personally, I think those of you who are bickering about who gets the MEN free and who doesn't are ALL jumping to conclusions. Just because someone lives and/or works in the city centre doesn't mean they are an 'office yuppie' and just because someone lives and/or works outside the city centre doesn't mean they are old. Stop whinging the lot of you, if you don't want to buy the paper. Oh, and Agnes - you apparently have access to the internet as you've posted a comment, so if you don't want to pay for a paper copy of the MEN, why don't you just read it online every day for free instead?
hodie, wiltshire ,
you would have no chance of doing the job that i do... and as far as what i earn a week , is a far whack , im not getting into what you pay/dont pay.
My opinions come from young people always being put down by "oap's" because they have served our country...just like a lot of (not all) young people are today.
Jsac, I agree with you that young people do get more than their fair share of slating by the moral high ground brigade, but slating old people just for being old is not the answer.
You are falling into the government's trap, which is to use the well practiced theory of divide and conquer.
The fact is that there are advantages to being every age.
I'm 36 now and can see advantages of being a kid, a teenager, etc.
The best thing you can do is work out what the advantages are of being the age that you are now and taking them without letting jealousy of somebody else¿s advantages get in the way.
Same goes to everyone else bickering here.