The Moon Under Water | |
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Former names | Deansgate Picture House Cannon Deansgate |
General information | |
Address | 68–74 Deansgate |
Town or city | Manchester |
Country | United Kingdom |
Opened | January 1914 (as a cinema) |
Owner | JD Wetherspoon |
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The Moon Under Water is a pub in Manchester city centre, England, in the building of the former Deansgate Picture House cinema (an ABC cinema) on Deansgate; [1] it is one of the largest public houses in the United Kingdom. The pub is 8,800 square feet (820 m2) and can hold 1,700 customers. [2]
It is owned by the pub chain JD Wetherspoon who opened it on 15 August 1995, and named it after George Orwell's 1946 essay, " The Moon Under Water", describing his ideal pub. [3] It is one of 15 Wetherspoon pubs with the same name. [2] [4]