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thumb Grand Central is a rock/metal pub and music venue at 80 Oxford Street, near Oxford Road railway station and opposite The Palace Hotel in Manchester, England. It is a four storey building (including cellar) which is typical of buildings that were originally houses in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.〔http://www.mangeogsoc.org.uk/egm/3_1_Little_Ireland.pdf〕 Wakefield Street on the south side leads to the railway station via a pedestrian stairway. It was once used as a meeting place for customers on their way to Jilly's Rockworld (originally named Rafters nightclub)〔Rafters (nightclub)〕 which was situated in St James's Buildings at 65a Oxford Street, but since Rockworld's closing in early 2010 there is no longer a widely-recognised alternative venue in Manchester. Every Thursday night the pub works in partnership with Rocksector Records to put live music on. There are usually 3 or 4 bands and the pub is strictly free entry.〔http://www.mwaweb.com/gc_home.html〕 Grand Central has also hosted the annual Battle For Bloodstock competition.〔http://www.bloodstock.uk.com/events/boa-2012/masses_venues/intro〕 The competition runs on Tuesday nights over a few months early on in the year, where 36 local bands compete over 6 heats, 2 semi-finals and a Grand Final. The winners win a slot at the Bloodstock Open Air Festival in Derby, a well-respected British metal festival. It was refurbished in 2004 and has since been host to Carved Photography's〔(Carved Photography )〕 exhibition featuring photos by Sabrina Ramdoyal〔http://www.sabrinaramdoyal.co.uk/〕 of bands from Manchester's local rock/metal scene as well as more established bands from all over the world. The pub presently offers a pool table, jukebox and two fruit machines. There used to be a club open downstairs called Subway however this closed before 2002. ==History== The name "Grand Central" is relatively new and was adopted because of the nearness of Oxford Road railway station, alluding to New York's Grand Central Station. Until the renaming the pub was the Beef & Barley and included a separate steak bar, having been modernised in the late 1960s. The beer stocked at that time was Watney/ Wilsons from Wilsons Newton Heath Brewery.〔Evans, David G. et al. (1975) ''The Manchester Pub Guide''. Manchester: Manchester Pub Surveys; p. 32〕 Earlier still the pub was called the Oxford Bar.〔Ordnance Survey ''Plan SJ8497: scale 1:2500 or 25.344 inches to 1 mile''; edition of 1955〕 The oldest records found featuring Grand Central suggest that it was originally 8 separate residential properties. This is shown in the 1849 map of Oxford Street. First hand accounts recall 80 Oxford Street being known as 'The Oxford Wine Bar' in 1953, and later in 1960 as simply 'The Oxford'. In 1970 it became the 'Beef & Barley',〔(Beef & Barley )〕 a Steak House, and a year later in 1971 'A Schooner Inn' was added to the 'Beef and Barley' pub sign.〔(Schooner Inn )〕 Between 1977 and 1978 it was known as the 'Cork & Screw' and it became 'The Shady Lady'〔(The Shady Lady )〕 in the late 1970s. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Grand Central Pub」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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