Manchester, The Grand Hotel c.1885
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18290
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We are looking up Aytoun Street towards Piccadilly, with the dome of the Infirmary building in the square, and the Grand Hotel building dominating the right of the photograph. We can tell from the squareness of this building that the Grand Hotel started life as a warehouse in 1867. In 1880 it was converted to an hotel, and it remained an hotel for almost a hundred years. In the year 2000, it re-opened as rather grand high-tech service flats. Aytoun Street gets its name from Roger Aytoun (known as Spanking Roger), who came to Manchester from Scotland as an officer in the army. He married a local lady of means, Barbara Minshull, and spent the next ten years going through her considerable fortune.
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