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From our hotel window we could see Great Ancoats St and the Ashton Canal Under the brdige is the short New Islington arm From the end of our corridor there was a view roughly south towards Piccadilly Station and by the lifts another window looked out to distant hills Ashton Canal. At right is the Vulcan and Albion Mills, now converted to flats The Islington Branch, just over 100 metres long now - it used to be about twice as long The lock keeper's cottage Ashton Canal from Jutland St I worked at one of the rooms on this side of the UMIST main building UMIST River Medlock from Charles St River Medlock from Oxford Rd Refuge Assurance Building 1891 by Alfred Waterhouse, extended 1910 and 1912 by his son Paul Waterhouse, and further extended in 1930s A hotel since 1987 it was renamed 'The Principal Manchester' in November 2016.
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