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After years of rumours about the opening of a climbing wall in Manchester it looks like we are finally going to get one.
http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?n=106504
I believe it is in a church in Ardwick, can't wait hopefully there'll be a website soon but I guess that's a low priority.
http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?n=106504
I believe it is in a church in Ardwick, can't wait hopefully there'll be a website soon but I guess that's a low priority.
In reply to Tyler:
watch this space:
http://www.manchesterclimbingcentre.com/
> hopefully there'll be a website soon
watch this space:
http://www.manchesterclimbingcentre.com/
In reply to Simon Caldwell:
But where is it going to be?
Their recruitment policy seems to be drafted to exclude 99% of commited climbers: "Good communication skills and a willingness to work as a team are essential"
But where is it going to be?
Their recruitment policy seems to be drafted to exclude 99% of commited climbers: "Good communication skills and a willingness to work as a team are essential"
In reply to sutty:
You think a car would last as far as Ardwick of an evening?! Another reason why I'm so peed off the govt have withdrawn funding for the Metrolink extension.
You think a car would last as far as Ardwick of an evening?! Another reason why I'm so peed off the govt have withdrawn funding for the Metrolink extension.
In reply to Tyler:
Have I got the right location in my news report?
http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/
> I believe it is in a church in Ardwick, can't wait hopefully there'll be a website soon but I guess that's a low priority.
Have I got the right location in my news report?
http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/
In reply to Alan James - UKC:
Don't know I'm afraid but Grame Alderson does, that's certainly the right area just don't know if it's the right church.
Don't know I'm afraid but Grame Alderson does, that's certainly the right area just don't know if it's the right church.
In reply to Tyler:
> (In reply to sutty)
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> You think a car would last as far as Ardwick of an evening?! Another reason why I'm so peed off the govt have withdrawn funding for the Metrolink extension. You may pass through some "dodgy" areas on you way to the wall, but once there you can park your car with a safe mind. CCT cameras and protected parking bays have been built into the business plans. I think inspite of your worries this will be a fantastic venue and complement/releive the pressure on other climbing wall locations scattered around the Manchester area.
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> You think a car would last as far as Ardwick of an evening?! Another reason why I'm so peed off the govt have withdrawn funding for the Metrolink extension. You may pass through some "dodgy" areas on you way to the wall, but once there you can park your car with a safe mind. CCT cameras and protected parking bays have been built into the business plans. I think inspite of your worries this will be a fantastic venue and complement/releive the pressure on other climbing wall locations scattered around the Manchester area.
In reply to chalkie:
It's nice to here they are providing secure parking as this is over and above what I would expect and wouldn't have stopped me going anyway. My rant about the Metrolink still applies though, especially as it looks like Edinburgh have just been granted a £500 million rail link for their city centre.
Will there be many parking spaces?
It's nice to here they are providing secure parking as this is over and above what I would expect and wouldn't have stopped me going anyway. My rant about the Metrolink still applies though, especially as it looks like Edinburgh have just been granted a £500 million rail link for their city centre.
Will there be many parking spaces?
Secure bike parking too, please! Or somewhere safe inside I can leave my Brompton. I work very close to here (will be able to go bouldering in my lunch hour ) and I'm told bikes parked outside don't last long.
Kate
Kate
In reply to Tyler: Hurray. After waiting for a decent Manc wall for the best part of ten years one comes along just as I am clearing off to Australia. Good timing.
Ardwick, Manchester City Centre, Car and will travel fast... words that will never be heard in a true statement. It was about time something was built in the madchester but, have you tried drving through manchester recently!!?? Not trying to shoot the plans down but i live near bolton and Im certainly not going to spend have my night fighting my into the city center.
Yet another crazy Ratho idea or not? And whilst im on a rant.. Ratho well... They thought it was a good idea at the time.. Me... well one wall .. 20 odd million quid or 10 walls 2 million quid each. Doesnt take a lot to figure out whats best for the climbing community!
Yet another crazy Ratho idea or not? And whilst im on a rant.. Ratho well... They thought it was a good idea at the time.. Me... well one wall .. 20 odd million quid or 10 walls 2 million quid each. Doesnt take a lot to figure out whats best for the climbing community!
In reply to Paul R:If it's in Ardwick it'll be on my way home from work so i'm not complaining,E5 by next xmas
In reply to Paul R: It is a large church not a cathedral so any similarity to a Ratho sized development is inaccurate.
Aaargh! The Dunn(e)s have a monopoly on manchester climbing walls, its all very Sicilian
Iggy in london now
Iggy in london now
In reply to Paul R:
The access isn't too bad. I've driven there when its been busy and the access is good. Its in a built up area but the roads are wide as you come off the motorway and there all long stretches between traffic light junctions from what i remember. The area nearby is a little way off the main roads so not a problem with traffic there. Since theres naff all around it and all the local houses are due to be ripped down for redevelopment I wouldn't worry about the traffic. It'll be no worse than getting to the NWF in warrington or the edge in shef
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The access isn't too bad. I've driven there when its been busy and the access is good. Its in a built up area but the roads are wide as you come off the motorway and there all long stretches between traffic light junctions from what i remember. The area nearby is a little way off the main roads so not a problem with traffic there. Since theres naff all around it and all the local houses are due to be ripped down for redevelopment I wouldn't worry about the traffic. It'll be no worse than getting to the NWF in warrington or the edge in shef
P
In reply to pete theobald: where exactly is it then?
In reply to Paul Atkinson:
ardwick. Can't remember the exact directions but was directed by a friend whos worked on clearing it out. Its near oxford road/street train station
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ardwick. Can't remember the exact directions but was directed by a friend whos worked on clearing it out. Its near oxford road/street train station
P
In reply to pete theobald:
That sounds like Hulme?
Stu
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> ardwick. Can't remember the exact directions but was directed by a friend whos worked on clearing it out. Its near oxford road/street train station
> P
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> ardwick. Can't remember the exact directions but was directed by a friend whos worked on clearing it out. Its near oxford road/street train station
> P
That sounds like Hulme?
Stu
In reply to Stu Tyrrell: No, Ardwick. Nowhere near Oxford Rd but not too far from Picadilly train station? Up to the Apollo then turn onto Hyde Rd.
It will be a bitch to get to during rush hour.
It will be a bitch to get to during rush hour.
In reply to Richard Bradley:
The nearest train station is Ashbury's (Sp?) about half a mile away from the church.
The nearest train station is Ashbury's (Sp?) about half a mile away from the church.
In reply to black nick:
Ardwick shouldn't be too bad to get to. I live in Hulme and go that way when going to the peaks (A57).
I can't wait for the new climbing centre. I moved to Manchester a little while ago (from Birmingham) and really want to get back into a climbing routine.
Ardwick shouldn't be too bad to get to. I live in Hulme and go that way when going to the peaks (A57).
I can't wait for the new climbing centre. I moved to Manchester a little while ago (from Birmingham) and really want to get back into a climbing routine.
In reply to Barney:
Was over there yesterday, and it's looking impressive! They've fitted most of the 12m walls, the ones going hire are going in the rest of this week.
Was over there yesterday, and it's looking impressive! They've fitted most of the 12m walls, the ones going hire are going in the rest of this week.
In reply to zoobizooretta:
hmmm, my mates seemed to think its going to be somewhere close to the Piccadilly train station (is that Ardwick? i don't know central Manchester that well!)
Anyway, i'm hoping its going to be good, cos its quite a trek over to Liverpool.
hmmm, my mates seemed to think its going to be somewhere close to the Piccadilly train station (is that Ardwick? i don't know central Manchester that well!)
Anyway, i'm hoping its going to be good, cos its quite a trek over to Liverpool.
In reply to haze01:
no where near, it's just round the corner from the apollo if you know where that is...
no where near, it's just round the corner from the apollo if you know where that is...
In reply to zoobizooretta:
Which is probably less than a mile from Piccadily station!
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> no where near, it's just round the corner from the apollo if you know where that is...
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> no where near, it's just round the corner from the apollo if you know where that is...
Which is probably less than a mile from Piccadily station!
In reply to Ian Patterson:
get the train to ardwick... it's that chruch in the middle of the map...
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&X=387500.989318392...
get the train to ardwick... it's that chruch in the middle of the map...
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&X=387500.989318392...
In reply to Phil Sykes:
well it's got a 20m lead wall (leeds is only 12m), with a multi-pitch hanging belay and belay ledge.
Loads of twisted fibreglass bits giving you odd prow's and the like. A nice over hung pocketed wall.
The bouldering is the same size as the matrix wall in sheffield, but that wasn't in yet. But it's having a mix of fibreglass curved stuff, like the wave at the foundry and the new angled woodie's like UKboulder and rockcity in hull.
well it's got a 20m lead wall (leeds is only 12m), with a multi-pitch hanging belay and belay ledge.
Loads of twisted fibreglass bits giving you odd prow's and the like. A nice over hung pocketed wall.
The bouldering is the same size as the matrix wall in sheffield, but that wasn't in yet. But it's having a mix of fibreglass curved stuff, like the wave at the foundry and the new angled woodie's like UKboulder and rockcity in hull.
In reply to Tyler: has anyone said EXACTLY where it is anywhere yet?
> has anyone said EXACTLY where it is anywhere yet?
Manchester, apparently
In reply to Paul Atkinson: its in ardwick, manchester. Walking distance from oxford road station and most of the universirties. Its an old brick church which is very high for a climbing wall and I definitely can't remember where it is. I've been and seen it and its just a turn off a major road in ardwick so gfetting there won't be a problem. I think the domain www.manchesterclimbingwall.co.uk has been registered for it but isn't up and running yet. I'm sure details will be released soon though as its expected to open end of january (unofficially though)
PT
PT
In reply to Hotbad Peteel:
it's St Benedict's Church, Bennett Street, M12
like it shows on the link higher up
it's St Benedict's Church, Bennett Street, M12
like it shows on the link higher up
In reply to zoobizooretta:
Oh my goodness, that's a recipie for disaster if ever there was such a thing. Is there a resident air rescure service for all the numpties that get stuck on the belay ledge?
Nice idea though!
> (In reply to Phil Sykes)
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> well it's got a 20m lead wall (leeds is only 12m), with a multi-pitch hanging belay and belay ledge.
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> well it's got a 20m lead wall (leeds is only 12m), with a multi-pitch hanging belay and belay ledge.
Oh my goodness, that's a recipie for disaster if ever there was such a thing. Is there a resident air rescure service for all the numpties that get stuck on the belay ledge?
Nice idea though!
In reply to Jon Dittman:
To be honest it did cross my mind, the floor walkers won't be able to tell you off for poor belaying up there.
J
To be honest it did cross my mind, the floor walkers won't be able to tell you off for poor belaying up there.
J
In reply to Tyler: Anyone got any ideas if Ardwick is walkable from Picadilly or if you can catch a magic bus there if not? Also, any exact dates for opening? - can't wait to start climbing again!
In reply to Stephanie:
there's a bus stop right outside the door, literally 2 metres from the door.
Dunno what bus it is yet, but will find out
it's ment to open the last week of Jan.
there's a bus stop right outside the door, literally 2 metres from the door.
Dunno what bus it is yet, but will find out
it's ment to open the last week of Jan.
I drove past St Benedict's yesterday on the way home after getting called in to work
It's an amazing building architecturally and I think a bit bigger and taller than NW face (although I don't know how much of it is being used ). I'm glad I don't have a posh car though given the location. Can't wait for it to open - it's within a couple of hundred yards of my route home from work.
Thank god (sorry) we live in the most atheistic society in the world and are now putting these buildings to a useful purpose Wait for the cathedrals to fall in to disuse and we'll have multipitch
cheers, Paul
It's an amazing building architecturally and I think a bit bigger and taller than NW face (although I don't know how much of it is being used ). I'm glad I don't have a posh car though given the location. Can't wait for it to open - it's within a couple of hundred yards of my route home from work.
Thank god (sorry) we live in the most atheistic society in the world and are now putting these buildings to a useful purpose Wait for the cathedrals to fall in to disuse and we'll have multipitch
cheers, Paul
In reply to Paul Atkinson:
Its almost twice the height of nwf but similarly proportioned. Theres meant to be similar bouldering area to boulder uks downstairs in there.
PT
Its almost twice the height of nwf but similarly proportioned. Theres meant to be similar bouldering area to boulder uks downstairs in there.
PT
In reply to Hotbad Peteel:
isn't 20m high enough for you? The bouldering is the same diamentions as the matrix
isn't 20m high enough for you? The bouldering is the same diamentions as the matrix
In reply to Tyler:
eyup zoobiz !!!
cheers for last week's climbing - crimps and flatties aplenty - cya next time around
Phil.
eyup zoobiz !!!
cheers for last week's climbing - crimps and flatties aplenty - cya next time around
Phil.
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