Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

The Bridgewater Hall is an international concert venue in Manchester city centre, England. It cost around £42 million to build and currently hosts over 250 performances a year. The hall is home to the The Hallé orchestra, the UK's oldest extant symphony orchestra and the primary concert venue for the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. The building sits on a bed of 280 springs, which help reduce external noise. The venue is named after the Third Duke of Bridgewater who commissioned the eponymous Bridgewater Canal that crosses Manchester, although the hall is situated on a specially constructed arm of the Rochdale Canal. Proposals to replace the concert venue in the Free Trade Hall existed since it was damaged in the Second World War but the...