Motel One, London Road The images above were taken in November 2015  An article in the Manchester
Evening News, dated Oct 17, 2013, announced the upcoming
construction of a Manchester version of Motel One.
It explained that this £25.5million hotel project
involved, “ ... a 14-storey high hotel with 330
bedrooms ... The ground floor of the 105,000 sq ft
scheme will include hotel reception, a restaurant
and a bar. .... Designed by Manchester architect
Hodder and Partners, the façade will comprise large
floor-to-ceiling glazed panels for each bedroom, and
the exterior will be finished in a stone coloured
smoothed concrete.”
Images from the construction phase:
March 13, 2014   October 8, 2014   ***********************
The hotel laps around Monroes on the corner of London Road and Whitworth Street and among the buildings demolished to make way for it was the Hotel International (see below).  An 1851 map of the
site indicates, that at that time, it was an office
building for the Manchester, Sheffield and
Lincolnshire Railway. The map suggests that
the L-shaped block was built around the public house
on the corner.
 This can be seen in the aerial photograph below.  It is clear that
the front of the Hotel International was similar
in style to the building beside the pub on
Whitworth Street.
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