The Haçienda

Fac 51 Haçienda, plus communément appelé The Haçienda, est un ancien nightclub de Manchester au Royaume-Uni. Inauguré entre autres par Tony Wilson en mai 1982, le club doit fermer en 1997 après le décès d'une jeune raveuse, des suites d'une overdose. L'Haçienda est également l'épicentre du mouvement musical Madchester.

Conçu comme un espace ouvert et transversal par les designers Ben Kelly et Peter Saville, le club proposait également des cafés, des expositions, projection de films, conférences, défilés de mode, un coiffeur.

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The Haçienda was a nightclub and music venue in Manchester, England, which became famous during the Madchester years of the 1980s and early 1990s. It was run by the record label Factory Records. The club opened in 1982, eventually fostering the Manchester acid house and rave scene in the late 1980s. The early success of Factory band New Order, particularly with their 1983 dance hit "Blue Monday", helped to subsidise the club even as it lost considerable amounts of money (in part due to clubbers' embrace of the street drug ecstasy, which drove down traditional alcohol sales). The club's subculture was noted by the Chief Constables of Merseyside and Greater Manchester as reducing football hooliganism. Crime and financial troubles plagued its later years, and it finally closed in 1997. It was demolished and replaced by apartments.

AXIS, Manchester

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Castlefield corridor

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The Briton's Protection

The Briton's Protection is a historic, Grade II listed public house in Manchester, England. Various dates are given for its establishment; the pub's own website says 1806, although its bicentenary was not celebrated until 2011. It was listed in Pigot and Dean's New Directory of Manchester & Salford for 1821 and 1822. The pub's name recalls its use as an army recruiting venue, as do a set of murals inside the pub. The Peterloo Massacre of 1819 happened nearby, and there are unconfirmed reports that some of the injured were brought into the pub and laid out on the bar to be treated. The brick building, with a slate roof, was granted Grade II listed status, offering protection from unauthorised alteration or demolition, in 1990. The largely intact 1930s interior has six public rooms. Other notable architectural features include a terrazzo-tiled corridor floor, moulded ceiling, original 1930s urinals and the serving hatch through which people in the two rear rooms are served beer from the front bar. As well as serving real ale, it is known for offering over 360 whiskies. For many years, the pub was operated as a Tetley house, then by Punch Taverns, before being taken over in 2014 by an independent operator and refurbished. The pub was voted Best Pub in Manchester in the Pride of Manchester Awards in both 2008–2009 and 2009–2010. It is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.

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