The Albert Hall is a music venue in
Manchester
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, England.
Built as a
Methodist
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central hall in 1908 by the architect
William James Morley of Bradford and built by J. Gerrard & Sons Ltd of Swinton, it has been designated by
English Heritage
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as a Grade II
listed building
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. The main floor was used as a nightclub from 1999 to 2011. The second floor, the Chapel Hall, unused since 1969, was renovated in 2012–14 for music concerts.
The venue hosted a few events towards the end of 2013. It officially reopened on 6 February 2014, with a performance by
Anna Calvi
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.
History
The hall was designed in eclectic style with
Baroque
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and
Gothic
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People and languages
*Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes
**Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
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elements for the Wesleyan Mission in 1908. A meeting hall is on the first floor with a horseshoe gallery, sloping floor and coloured glass rooflights. The finely detailed
terracotta
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is formed into large windows at gallery level, and the interior is abundant in floral decoration in the plaster work and glazed tiles.
In the 1990s, the lower two floors were converted into a nightclub called Brannigans which closed in 2011. The hall was refurbished and re-opened in 2013 by Trof, a local independent bar and live music company.
General election 2017
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