Quay Street
Quay Street is a street in the city centre of Manchester, England. The street continues Peter Street westwards towards Salford. Spinningfields, Manchester's new business district, is to the north and Castlefield, the historical area of the city to the south. It was created in the 18th century for access to a new quay on the River Irwell.
The street is most famously known for Granada Studios, the UK's first purpose built television studios in 1954 and home to Granada Television - it was one of ITA's original franchises and the only one to survive into the 21st century. Granada was also ITV's last franchisee in 2004 and was generally regarded as ITV's most successful franchise.[1][2][3][4]
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The Opera House (formerly the New Theatre) is in Quay Street; Cobden's House was the original home of Owens College; the Hospital for Skin Diseases was also in Quay Street.
The street is home to Granada Studios which is the home of Granada Television, where the long-running soap opera Coronation Street is filmed. In 2009 it was rumoured that Granada would be moving to the nearby MediaCityUK facilities in Salford Quays; however ITV chief operating officer John Cresswell told staff they would stay at their current Quay Street location for the "foreseeable future".[5]
On September 25, 2010, the red 'Granada TV' sign were removed due to "health and safety" reasons. According to a spokesperson for ITV: "During routine maintenance of the Quay Street building the roof signage and its fixtures were found to be extensively corroded. As a result, the signs have been taken down for health and safety reasons."[6]
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Architect Joseph Sunlight, built Sunlight House on Quay Street, and had planned to build the Quay Street Tower, a 360-foot (110 m) highrise art deco building behind Sunlight House. However permission was refused and it was said to be inconsiderate as Manchester was still rebuilding from the Blitz during the Second World War. Had it been built, it would have been not only Manchester's tallest building, but the tallest in Europe.[7]
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- ^ "Top 10 ITV companies: 1 - Granada". transdiffusion.org. 29 January 2008. http://www.transdiffusion.org/tmc/itv50/companies/01.php. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
- ^ "ITV: What a shameful 50th anniversary". 17 May 2005. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/columnists/article-348989/ITV-What-shameful-50th-anniversary.html#ixzz1Q72DVmRB. Retrieved 23 June 2011. "Later it produced The World At War, Brideshead Revisited and The Jewel In The Crown - just the sort of series the BBC was supposed to make. Many of ITV's best programmes came from the Granada studios in Manchester."
- ^ Brown, Maggie (17 July 2000). "And then there were three". http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2000/jul/17/mondaymediasection.towardsasingleitv. Retrieved 23 June 2011. "Granada's creative strength makes it by far the most important ITV player. It made eight of ITV's 10 top-rated programmes last year (excluding sports coverage). Overall, 30% of the UK's top-rated programmes came from its studios in 1999. Last week it pulled off a further coup, with ITV announcing that Yorkshire's Emmerdale would be running five nights a week from the autumn."
- ^ Brown, Maggie (14 September 2005). "Allen denies Granada will turn in-house". http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2005/sep/14/broadcasting.ITV1?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
- ^ Wylie, Ian (11 March 2009). "Granada stays at Quay Street". Manchester Evening News (M.E.N. Media). http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1101646_granada_stays_at_quay_street.
- ^ "ITV removes famous Granada sign from Manchester studios". Manchester Evening News (M.E.N. Media). 26 September 2010. http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1330894_itv_removes_famous_granada_sign_from_manchester_studios.
- ^ http://www.skyscrapernews.com/buildings.php?id=1200
