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'Manchester was my playground': What it was like to be the 'only kid' living in the city centre in the 80s

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Hidden in the bowels of Manchester city centre, just outside Piccadilly station and overlooking the Rochdale Canal, is a concrete box on stilts.

It's an odd-looking building that is believed to date back to the 1960s, fitting in with the Brutalist architecture that was popular at the time.

For decades it was boarded up, its story left untold. And when the former Manchester Met University's Aytoun Street campus was earmarked for redevelopment it could have been demolished and lost forever.

Fortunately, developers Capital & Centric and HBD liked its quirkiness and decided to keep the building for use as a community space and to host pop-up food and drink operators.

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