News of the Week

Although from yesterday, this caught my eye:

£25m revamp for Chetham's

Chetham's (Or Chet's as it is affectionately known) is a world-class music school, providing students in the North-West the opportunity to study music for years and years before studying it more at college (coincidentally in the same city as RNCM); think of it as England's Interlochen.

Security is tight, and they don't allow anyone who doesn't have any business there in (unless you're using the library). I've only been in a couple times, and to the best of knowledge, not in the portion they wish to demolish (the article is a bit confusing in this regard). In the print edition, they show a picture of the proposed building; nothing wrong with it, unless you fell there's something wrong with most architecture in the past 50 years.

I may review the print article again, mainly because I should be able to get a bearing on the placement of the new building. The article mentions Victoria Station, which would be on the North-East side of Chet's, but the Palatine and River Irwell, which are also mentioned, lie on the West side. They've even mentioned a bridge spanning the Irwell. Hopefully I can get this sorted.

Anyway, if you have a hankering to find out about Chet's, just click here; the library is the oldest public library in England, and Karl Marx spent time in it, so it must be good.