After the IRA bomb of 1996 a new open space, Cathedral Gardens, was planned, bounded on three sides by some of the oldest buildings in Manchester and on the other, one of the newest - Urbis.  This view is of an ancient thoroughfare, Long Millgate, shown on a 1650 map as being one of Manchester's principal streets.  The building ahead is the former Manchester Grammar School, founded in 1515 by Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter, who was a Mancunian.  The present building is the third to stand on this site, built in 1870 by Alfred Waterhouse, and is now occupied by Chetham's School of Music.  Through the small gateway to the right lies Chetham's School and Library.  Originally the domestic quarters for the Collegiate Church, built 1421, they are the best preserved buildings of their type in the country.  In 1654 they became home to a school for 40 poor boys and a public library, founded by Humphrey Chetham, a wealthy businessman.  The library was the first free public library in England and is still open to the public.  Perhaps the most famous visitors were Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels, a Manchester resident for 22 months, who used to meet here regularly before publishing the 'Communist Manifesto' in 1848.