'It's a very special place': The end of Owens Park Tower
manchestereveningnews.co.ukIt’s the mid-1980s, and a desperate lover or concerned friend has arranged sheets of A4 paper to spell out ‘ROB PHONE ME’ across a south Manchester tower.
It’s the early 1990s, and there are pencils and papers pinned to residents’ doors in a south Manchester tower so they can leave one another messages.
It’s the mid-2010s, and the fire alarm has just gone off in a south Manchester tower for the fourth time that night after someone drunkenly burned a late night snack. READ MORE: The faces of Mancunian workers who'd be amazed at what's happening to their mill now Many will already know the tower referred to: Owens Park, the home of thousands of students.
For some, it would have been their first home in the city. And it gave a hell of an introduction to Manchester, as revealed by the memories of alumni shared with the M.E.N.
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