Castlefield Gallery

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The Castlefield Gallery is an art gallery in Manchester, England, located at 2 Hewitt Street, Knott Mill, Manchester. The gallery, a resource for contemporary visual artists, was founded by Manchester Artists Studio Association in 1984. The gallery has an exhibition and events programme, provides a professional development scheme for artists in its Project Space and PureScreen screens film and video works.

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Deansgate railway station

Deansgate is a railway station in Manchester city centre, England; it is located 1,100 yards (1 km) west of Manchester Piccadilly, close to Castlefield at the junction of Deansgate and Whitworth Street West. It is part of the Manchester station group. It is linked to Deansgate-Castlefield tram stop and the Manchester Central Convention Complex by a footbridge built in 1985; Deansgate Locks, The Great Northern Warehouse and the Science and Industry Museum are also nearby. The platforms are elevated, reached by lift or stairs, or by the walkway from the Manchester Central Complex. The ticket office, staffed full-time, is between street and platform levels. There are no ticket barriers, although manual ticket checks take place on a daily basis. It is on the Manchester to Preston and the Liverpool–Manchester lines, both used heavily by commuters. Most tickets purchased by passengers to Deansgate are issued to Manchester Stations or Manchester Central Zone; therefore actual usage is not reflected in these statistics, due to the difficulty in splitting the ticket sales correctly between the four grouped stations (Piccadilly, Victoria, Oxford Road and Deansgate).

Boardwalk (music club)

The Boardwalk was a nightclub in Manchester, England, which was open from 1986 to 1999. This medium-sized club, owned by David, Colin and Donald Sinclair, was a popular live music venue and nightclub in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It had multiple floors, with a rehearsal space in the basement. Colin Sinclair and his father bought the Boardwalk building, located on Little Peter Street, in 1985. Originally a school operated by St. Peter's church, the building's top floor had been used as a rehearsal space for the Hallé Orchestra under John Barbirolli, and, from the 1970s, as a home for an alternative theatre company, the Green Room (which later moved to Whitworth St West) . The first live event at the Boardwalk took place 15 December 1985, although at the time the venue had no alcohol licence. Along with other clubs like the Haçienda, and the International, the Boardwalk provided an important live venue for many bands, from local to national. Sue Langford organised in-house bookings at the Boardwalk, with various independent promoters also hosting shows at the venue (including Simon Moran). Bands such as Oasis and Northside made their live debuts at the Boardwalk. The Man From Delmonte, the Charlatans, Happy Mondays, Female Brothers and Dub Sex, were amongst the many Manchester bands that appeared frequently at the Boardwalk before acquiring international recognition or disappearing into obscurity. The venue also saw a variety of other acts including The Stone Roses, Hole, Sonic Youth, Chumbawamba, Jayne County, Verve, Bob Mould and Rage Against the Machine. The venue was also known as a focus of Britain's C86 music scene. The basement of the venue served as a rehearsal space. The Membranes, James, Simply Red, and A Certain Ratio were among the acts who took rehearsal space at the Boardwalk in the 1980s. In the early 1990s, Oasis shared a rehearsal room with Sister Lovers. The venue added a mezzanine floor in December 1990 marking a shift to club nights every Saturday. 'Freedom' took place every Saturday from December 1990 until June 1996, featuring former Haçienda DJ Dave Haslam alongside guest DJs including Erick Morillo, Pete Heller, Nick Warren and Pete Tong. From March 1992 until March 1999 a second club night, 'Yellow' was staged every Friday at the Boardwalk. Funkademia was started by DJ and promoter David Payne at The Boardwalk in 1995 and has since gone on to become one of Manchester's longest running club nights. The nightclub site now has a blue plaque, featuring a smiley face, a symbol associated with acid house. Beneath the symbol is a description of The Boardwalk as a "Madchester Venue Nightclub and Rehearsal Rooms".

Castlefield Congregational Chapel

Castlefield Congregational Chapel is a building located at 378 Deansgate in Manchester, England. The building originally opened as a Congregational chapel in 1858, and was designed by the local architect Edward Walters. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building. It is located in Castlefield, an Urban Heritage Park. The building was converted to a sound recording studio in the 1980s and owned by Pete Waterman, best known for Stock Aitken Waterman. Rick Astley recorded "Never Gonna Give You Up" in the chapel. Waterman sold the building in 2006 and it has since been converted to offices.

Deansgate-Castlefield tram stop

Deansgate-Castlefield is a tram stop on Greater Manchester's Metrolink light rail system, on Deansgate in the Castlefield area of Manchester city centre. It opened on 27 April 1992 as G-Mex tram stop, taking its name from the adjacent G-Mex Centre, a concert, conference and exhibition venue; the G-Mex Centre was rebranded as Manchester Central in 2007, prompting the Metrolink stop to be renamed on 20 September 2010. The station underwent redevelopment in 2014–15 to add an extra platform in preparation for the completion of the Second City Crossing in 2016–17. Deansgate-Castlefield serves as a transport hub by integrating with National Rail services from Deansgate railway station by a footbridge. Exits from the station lead to the Great Northern Warehouse, the reconstructed Mamucium Roman Fort, the Beetham Tower, and Deansgate Locks. Part of Zone 1, the stop is one of the most used on the Metrolink network.