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Wednesday 4 August 2010

Cotton House, Ducie Street


Cotton House, Ducie Street. (c) thecottonhouse.

This big bar-restaurant-club was tucked away adjacent to Piccadilly Station beneath the Place Apartment Hotel in an old converted cotton warehouse. With high ceilings, retained columns and exposed brick it was a stylish enough place that attracted various B-list celebs such as Girls Aloud, Ray Winstone and Djibril Cisse to its booths and curtained-off drinking and dining areas. It got some rave reviews after it opened in around 2004, despite being a lager and bottles only bar, but closed in 2007 due to rent arrears [1]. Surely its less-than-fashionable location for the type of crowd it tried to attract (not exactly the Jolly Angler set) played a part in its failure too.


2 comments:

  1. We were ahead of our time and made some errors but hey we tried.Unscrupulous Landlords of Manchester have a lot of soul searching to do

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  2. Ahead of our time and made some errors but the Landlords were shocking.

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