Sunday, 13 March 2011

Pertandingan Lagu Dakwah: University of Manchester Students' Union Information

Pertandingan Lagu-Lagu Dakwah will be held at:
Council Chambers (2nd Floor),
University of Manchester Students Union,
Steve Biko Building Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PR


The Union building is numbered 68 on the Campus Map which could be found http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/travel/maps/numerical/

University of Manchester Students' Union


How to get there?

Use route planner (http://www.visitmanchester.com/discover/maps.aspx)
Insert the postcode M139PR. Here are maps of Manchester (http://www.visitmanchester.com/discover/maps.aspx). The main University area is to the south, down Oxford Road - Manchester Museum and Manchester Academy are marked on the map.

1. Arriving by coach at Manchester Central Coach Station
  • leave the bus station on Chorlton Street
  • turn left and walk the short distance up to Portland Street
  • turn left onto Portland Street and find the bus stop outside the big insurance building set back from the road
  • look out for buses in the 40s and ask the driver for the University: Ask for the University or Students' Union
  • get off at Dover Street near Holy Name Church
  • cross Oxford Road to the Union which is a large, grey, three-storey building (shown above)
or
  • Best take a cab

2. Arriving by rail
a. If you arrive at Victoria Station:
i. Best take a cab
ii. Catch the link bus to Piccadilly Station and a train to Oxford Road Station

b. If you arrive at Piccadilly Station you could:
i. Take a cab
ii. Catch the 15,41,42,43,111, 142 and 143 bus which goes from the City (Piccadilly garden) straight down to Oxford Road- Rusholme- Fallow field- Wittington. Look for the building, most of the bus stop right in front of at the opposite road of the building but some will stop at the next stop.
iii. Catch another train to Oxford Road Station
iv. Catch the tram into Piccadilly Gardens and then a bus in the 40s to the Union

c. If you arrive at Oxford Road Station you could:
i. Walk out of the station taking steps on right or following the road, turn right onto Oxford Road and walk for ten minutes to the Union
ii. Find your way to Oxford Road as above, cross over and take a bus (same bus number as above)







Car parking
Official car parking for the Union and its venues is in the Theatre Car Park (http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/travel/maps/numerical/) just below, or south of, the Academy, building number 78 - it is labelled Car Park F on the map. Access to Theatre Car Park is via Denmark Street off Oxford Road.
Turn right on to Acomb Street and right at end (on to Dilworth Street), over the humps to the car park entrance two hundred metres up on the left.
You need pound coins to operate the barrier (after 4.30pm).
There is a multi-storey car park on the corner of Booth Street East and Upper Brook Street which provides safe and convenient public parking a short walk from the Students' Union building and the Academy venues. It is labelled Multi-Storey Car Park B on the map.


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