The Moon Under Water, Manchester

The Moon Under Water

The Moon Under Water, 2009.
Former names Deansgate Picture House
Cannon Deansgate
General information
Address 68-74 Deansgate
Town or city Manchester
Country UK
Opening January 1914 (as a cinema)
Website
Official

The Moon Under Water is a pub in Manchester city centre, in the building of the former Deansgate Picture House cinema on Deansgate.[1] The pub, which is 8,800 square feet (820 m2) and can hold 1,700 customers has been noted by the Guinness Book of Records as being the largest in Britain.[2] Other sources claim it is the largest in Europe.

It is owned by the pub chain Wetherspoons who opened it as a public house on 15 August 1995, and is named after George Orwell's essay, The Moon Under Water describing his ideal pub.

References

  1. "Cannon Deansgate". cinematreasures.org. Cinema Treasures.
  2. Parkinson-Bailey, John J. (2000). Manchester: an architectural history. Manchester University Press. p. 287. ISBN 0-7190-5606-3.

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Coordinates: 53°28′58″N 2°14′49″W / 53.4828°N 2.2469°W / 53.4828; -2.2469


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