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The Queen's Hotel
 The Queen's Hotel
stood on the corner of Portland Street and
Piccadilly, a site occupied today by Number 1 Portland
Street, a glass and steel mixed-use
building. In 1968 I went to the Queen's Hotel for
my first job interview and a few months later I
met there with friends for a drink before I left
to take up my first job in Western Canada.
 Below is an image of the site of the former hotel captured in 2011.     The Queen's Hotel was
built in 1845 as the home of William Houldsworth, a
textile merchant. John J. Parkinson-Bailey in
"Manchester - An Architectural History" explains
that, "The house was left to his nephew, Thomas
Houldsworth, racehorse owner and owner of
Houldsworth's factory on Little Lever Street, who
transformed it into a hotel. The hotel was
later extended to include two more large brick-built
houses."
 Above is an excerpt
from the Adshead Maps of 1851 and shown here with
the permission of Chetham's Library. It shows
the hotel before it expanded into the adjoining
houses along Portland Street.
      The
images below, from the Newbold Collection, are shown
here with the permission of Chetham's
Library. They show the hotel in the process
of demolition.
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