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15-1741 Led Walk Oxford Road Did you know Walking can help you reduce your stress levels, improve your mood and keep your bones healthy and strong. For example, a 25 minute brisk walk every day can add up to seven years on your life, and walking for just 20 minutes can burn off around 100 calories. Transport for Greater Manchester is committed to promoting walking, encouraging people of all age groups and fitness levels to get out and walk. Whether you are exploring your local area, walking as part of your daily commute or taking in some All in your stride... fresh air during your lunch break we are here to help! This self-led walk is part of a wider series of walks in and around Greater Manchester. For more information on the other walks in this series, or on how we can help you, head to our walking pages www.tfgm.com/walking Oxford Road self-led walk Vimto monument International Anthony Burgess Foundation Factory Records offices John Dalton Statue A step-by-step guide of discovery Created for Transport for Greater Manchester by Pauline Lloyd, Manchester Tour Guide © Crown copyright and database rights 2015 OS 0100022610. Use of this data is subject to terms and conditions. You are granted a non-exclusive, royalty free, revocable licence solely to view the Licensed Data for non-commercial purposes for the period during which Transport for Greater Manchester makes it available; you are not permitted to copy, sub-license, distribute, sell or otherwise make available the Licensed Data to third parties in any form; and third party rights to enforce the terms of this licence shall be reserved to Ordnance Survey. C H O R L T T E O E N R T S S T R E L E A T N A C The Continue along Sackville Street Manchester S 7 A C Sackville College and cross Whitworth Street. All in your stride... Oxford Road area K V IL Gardens L E The park on your right is Sackville Gardens. The metal Alan Turing 7 Memorial ST man on a bench in the centre commemorates START/FINISH 1 Outside Palace Hotel at corner of Oxford Road and Whitworth Street mathematician Alan Turing. He helped break the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park during WW2 and The Palace Hotel was originally Refuge Assurance, who commissioned the building in the 1890s. A rooftop chase ET University of TRE Manchester was a key member of the Manchester University team in the 1960 movie, Hell is a City, was filmed here. The architect Alfred Waterhouse also designed Manchester Town S that built the world’s first programmable computer. Hall, the original Manchester University building on Oxford Road, and the Natural History Museum in London. S A C Rochdale Canal K W He was prosecuted for homosexual acts in 1952 and V RO Vimto I L L monument O BY E committed suicide in 1954. He received a posthumous H N X T GRA F OR 6 Cross Oxford Road and the Oxford Road Station O Royal Pardon in 2013. ITW R P ST 2 Palace H M D W A approach and walk along Whitworth Street West R CH Theatre IN I TR N AL Continue along Sackville Street, turn left into Canal to Great Marlborough Street.Turn left (under River C M e E Street and walk to Princess Street. Turn left and walk d l S o 1 c S Multi-storey the railway viaduct) and walk to Hulme Street. k car park to the corner of Princess Street and Whitworth Street. T Palace Hotel S E Look for the red plaque on the BIMM building, on the right just W S ET T Railway viaduct TRE Cross Princess Street and walk along Whitworth Street R S before you reach Hulme Street. In the early 19th century this area ET E E Y S ES T R E O RL to the junction with Oxford Road/Oxford Street. T R S R CHA T Lass O’Gowrie E K was Little Ireland, a terrible slum populated by the poorest of Irish H E T R T O public house University of W S immigrants and often flooded by the nearby River Medlock. It was IT Manchester T Manchester H R Former Factory Manchester W E T Oxford Road E EE T R Conference Centre & finally demolished to make way for Oxford Road railway station. ST Records offices Days Hotel ET TRE ES S NEW WAKEFIELD S RL HA T C 5 R M E A E R T L G B R Turn right down Hulme O E R A O T 3 U Street and walk to Cambridge G H 2 M BIMM building E S A Cross Princess Street, continue Street. T S ET H O E A X 6 TR M International S F along Charles Street, turn left and L M O Most of the old brick buildings around you Anthony Burgess O W E R W walk along Sackville Street. E E D Foundation LM R S were early 19th-century mills and factories. U H O R L C O M On the grassed area to your right near Granby Row stands A W O Macintosh Mills N On your right is the International Anthony M E R D National B the Vimto monument by Kerry Morrison. C S R R HA T T Computing Burgess Foundation. Manchester-born EE O I TH R Centre D ST A G A D Vimto was first produced by John Joel Nichols from Blackburn 3 M Burgess, whose novels include Clockwork E S S T R AY in 1908 in a factory on the site of Granby Row. Nichols himself Orange, was educated in Manchester and T TE John Dalton W ES CH statue CUNIAN created the original recipe of fruit juices, herbs and spices. particularly liked to study at Central Library. 4 MAN Visit the café and browse the books among Manchester He called it Vim Tonic and later shortened it to Vimto. Metropolitan furnishings which once graced Burgess’ University homes in France and Monaco. Opposite you on Cambridge Street is the Macintosh & Co Ltd India Rubber Works, Continue along Chester Street to Oxford Road, turn left and walk to the first place to manufacture Charles 5 Hulme Street. Cross Oxford Road and walk straight on along Charles Macintosh’s patented waterproof cloth. Street to Princess Street. Very fitting for the rainy city! Behind buildings on the left you can see the railway viaduct that runs between Piccadilly and Oxford Road stations. This opened in 1849 to link London Road (now Piccadilly) with Altrincham. This was possibly the first railway commuter route in the country and it contributed to the growth of Sale and Altrincham as commuter suburbs. 4 Turn left along Cambridge Street and left again into Chester Street. The building on the right at the corner of Charles Street and Princess Street was once FAC251, Halfway down on your right is a statue of scientist John Dalton, the ‘father of atomic theory’ and discoverer of colour blindness. the offices of Anthony Wilson’s Factory Records. At the Lass O’Gowrie pub to your left, look for the He came to Manchester as a young man in the late 1700s to teach maths. One of his students was physicist James Prescott Joule. (unofficial) blue plaque on the right-hand outside wall and guess what a ‘pissotiere’ is! Dalton lived in what is now Chinatown, was a president of Manchester Lit & Phil (Literary & Philosophical Society), kept meticulous daily weather records, taught chemistry to medical students of the Infirmary in Piccadilly, and wound the clock each day in the Portico Library! The plaque on the ground below the statue was brought here from his tomb at Ardwick Cemetery when that graveyard closed. Created for Transport for Greater Manchester by Pauline Lloyd, Manchester Tour Guide.
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