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Exclusive: Mayfield Tours, Including Manchester’s Most Spectacular Abandoned Building

10.30am Sunday 19 February

Abandoned for years Mayfield depot is now poised for redevelopment as U+I and the Mayfield Partnership transform 24 acres of central Manchester into one of the most exciting urban areas in the kingdom.

I've teamed up with The Mayfield Partnership and The Warehouse Project to give Mancunians and visitors a rare opportunity to view this extraordinary location.

The tours include a visit into one of the great jaw-dropping interiors in the north of England, Mayfield Station Depot. This is epic civil engineering from 1910 where mighty iron columns stretch into the distance. It’s almost as though a scene from a fantasy or sci-fi movie has come to rest in the city. It never fails to astonish those who enter. Each tour will also take a trip up the original stairs to the lofty platforms of the former station with their equally impressive engineering.

The tour covers the rich history and background of Mayfield and describes the early Zombie movie from 1970s, The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue, featuring one of the former buildings on the Mayfield site. Daft zombies aside, there are love stories, drama and tales of raw industrial power, plus lots of humour. BEWARE of ghosts, as described here. This is a very complete tour which also looks at the future of the site as U+I and the Mayfield Partnership develop their ideas.

We will also visit the splendid new Mayfield Park. Read about it here.

We'd like to put a call out to former rail or Royal Mail workers who may have been employed on the site. We’d love to hear their memories of what life was like in this mighty building.


​Meet: Granby Row side of The Bull's Head Pub, M1 2PN, close to Piccadilly Station. 

Tickets £15. Please pay on Paypal below or Eventbrite. If you wish to pay by bank transfer please contact me on event@jonathanschofieldtours.com

 
Duration:
 most tours last between ninety minutes and two hours
Fully accessible
Totally fascinating

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The Paypal receipt is your ticket. If you ordered from Eventbrite you will be sent an electronic ticket. Please check the email, from which you ordered your tickets, 24 hours before each tour, in case circumstances have arisen which affect the tour, especially if the tour includes access to a space not owned by Jonathan Schofield Tours. If there is no change to the plans, you will not be sent an email. And as usual, if you don't have an informative and entertaining tour please ask for a refund. 
Mayfield Tours
About U+I
U+I is a specialist regeneration developer and investor.
With a £6bn portfolio of complex, mixed-use, community-focused regeneration projects including a £200m investment portfolio, we are unlocking urban sites bristling with potential in the London, Manchester and Dublin city regions. We exist to create long-term socioeconomic benefit for the communities in which we work, delivering sustainable returns to our shareholders.
www.uandiplc.com 
 
About The Mayfield Partnership
The Mayfield Development Partnership is committed to delivering the regeneration of Manchester’s historic Mayfield site. It comprises LCR, wholly-owned by the Department for Transport; Manchester City Council; Transport for Greater Manchester and regeneration and property development company U+I.
www.mayfieldmanchester.co.uk
 
About the Mayfield site
Mayfield is a 24-acre site next to Manchester Piccadilly station. The partnership’s vision is for Mayfield to become a distinctive new urban quarter, delivering 1,300 homes, 75,000 sq m of office space, a 350-bedroom hotel, retail and leisure facilities and a new city park over the next decade.
www.uandiplc.com
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