So the neon red Granada TV sign is consigned to Manchester’s overflowing black and yellow striped wheelie bin of cultural icons deemed surplus to requirements. OK, it’s only a sign but it doesn’t take much to get moaning Mancunians sounding off about anything. Any sort of southern interference and that’s it.
The rather predictable response from the majority of the online community who care about such matters is to blast ITV, the health and safety smokescreen reason and pine for t’old days. Percy Cobblers writes on the Manchester Evening News website that he remembers coming home from weekends in Blackpool and the warm glow he used to get as soon as he saw ‘the sign’.
We’ve been here before. I was, like most, disappointed when the Hacienda nightclub was prematurely subjected to the lecherous overtures of city centre property developers. But the old dog had seen better days and though I feel the space could have been reinvented as another nightclub to herald the birth of a new era in Manchester, at least it prevented any dilution of a true cultural modern legend.
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