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Manchester Piccadilly is the main railway station of the city of Manchester, in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, England.Opened originally as Store Street in 1842, it was renamed Manchester London Road in 1847 and became Manchester Piccadilly in 1960.
English: Map of the street named Piccadilly in central Manchester, UK. It begins at the junction of market Street and Tib Street, passes along the north side of Piccadilly Gardens for approximately 470 metres and ends at the junction with Ducie Street and London Road
Piccadilly Gardens is a green space in Manchester city centre, England, on the edge of the Northern Quarter. It takes its name from the adjacent street, Piccadilly, which runs across the city centre from Market Street to London Road. The gardens also contain a bus station and a tram stop.
The majority of the stands are located between Piccadilly Gardens and the Piccadilly Plaza, where buses for south or west Manchester usually begin or end their route. Other stands, also serving Piccadilly Gardens, are located on Oldham Street, Piccadilly or Lever Street for services heading towards north or east of Manchester.
The future site of One Piccadilly Gardens pictured in 1979. The area now known as Piccadilly Gardens was donated to the City of Manchester in the 18th century by the Lord of the Manor of Manchester, Sir Oswald Mosley, 2nd Baronet, of Rolleston, on condition that it should remain in public use in perpetuity, on pain of the land reverting to the Mosley family.
The Northern Quarter (N4 [1] or NQ [2]) is an area of Manchester city centre, England, between Piccadilly station, Victoria station and Ancoats, centred on Oldham Street, just off Piccadilly Gardens. It was defined and named in the 1990s as part of the regeneration and gentrification of Manchester.
City Tower (formerly Sunley House) is a 30-storey office skyscraper situated in the Piccadilly Gardens area of Manchester city centre in England. As of 2024, it is the second-tallest office building in Manchester after the CIS Tower (118 m (387 ft)), the third-tallest outside London after CIS Tower and 103 Colmore Row in Birmingham (108 m (354 ft)), and the joint 21st-tallest building in ...
The bus station, designed by Jefferson Sheard Architects, replaced the former Cannon Street bus station, under the Manchester Arndale; since the redevelopment of Manchester city centre, the latter has disappeared along with Cannon Street itself. [4] The Bus station is now under the control of TfGM through the Bee Network (as of 2024). Bus station