Albert Hall
Terracotta-fronted former Methodist mission hall turned concert venue with a horseshoe gallery and organ.
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This guide to the Albert Hall on Peter Street in Manchester follows a Wesleyan mission hall that was designed in nineteen ten not to look like a church, and the people it set out to draw in. It touches wartime People's Concerts, the Methodists' departure in nineteen sixty-nine, and the cheap-drinks nightclub that later took over the floors below. Best heard on the pavement facing the yellow terracotta, then again on the tiled stairs inside.
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