Is another piece of Victorian Manchester about to vanish?
Meanwhile the once grand but now derelict Plymouth Grove Hotel (1874), the magnificent Victorian pub with distinctive clock tower, featured in the book ‘Victorian Manchester and Salford’, could, I’m informed, be about to be disappear. As more pieces of the mosaic of Manchester are chipped away, many people wonder if the current development of Manchester is a case ‘One step forward, two steps back’?.
Final link about to disappear?
The Plymouth Grove Hotel is close to Mrs Gaskell’s house, itself a building at risk. At the moment the surrounding area is undergoing renewal, but the pub, a final link with the Victorian era, could be about to disappear. At the moment the pub has a ‘Sold’ sign on it. I will try to find out exactly what is happening, and report back in an upcoming edition of the Eye On Manchester Blog.
I have been trying to find out form the planning department at the council as to whether the pub is to be demolished, for 2 weeks, they have still got no information back to me.
I hope in the next civic society newsletter to print an article about its historical value and get some support to keep the building…..