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The Queen's Hotel
 The Queen's Hotel stood on the corner of
Portland Street and Piccadilly,
a site occupied today by Number
1
Portland
Street,
a
glass
and
steel
mixed-use building. In
1968 I went to the Queen's Hotel for my first job interview and a few
months later I
met there with friends for a drink before I left to take up my first
job in
Western Canada.
 Below is an image of the site of the former hotel captured in 2011.     The Queen's Hotel was built in 1845 as
the
home of William Houldsworth, a textile merchant. John J.
Parkinson-Bailey in "Manchester - An Architectural History" explains
that, "The house was left to his nephew, Thomas Houldsworth, racehorse
owner and owner of Houldsworth's factory on Little Lever Street, who
transformed it into a hotel. The hotel was later extended to
include two more large brick-built houses."
 Above is an excerpt from the Adshead Maps
of 1851 and shown here with the permission of Chetham's Library.
It shows the hotel before it expanded into the adjoining houses along
Portland Street.
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