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Manchester was settled in the 17th century, but remained an essentially agricultural community until the 19th century. Its industrial growth was spurred most significantly by the Cheney Brothers silk manufacturing operation, established in 1838 and one of the most successful businesses of its type in the world. Main Street is a north-south ...
The Documentary Photography Archive (DPA) is a photo archive founded in 1985 and held at the Greater Manchester County Record Office by Manchester City Council.The archive captures aspects of the people and places of the Greater Manchester region in the UK and includes over 100,000 images from family albums and elsewhere, from the 1840s to the 1950s. [1]
Street name A/B roads Established Description/notes Landmarks Canal Street: Early 19th century: At the centre of Manchester's Gay Village district: Rochdale Canal which runs parallel. Cheetham Hill Road: A665: Roman period: Connects to Corporation Street to Whitefield becomes Bury Old Road in Crumpsall: Manchester Jewish Museum, Peninsula ...
An architectural history, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, p. 364, ISBN 0-7190-5606-3; Swindells, Thomas (1908). Manchester Streets and Manchester Men. Vol. 5 (Reprint 2013 ed.). Monton Green, Eccles: T Swindells. ISBN 9781445507750. Williams, Bill (1976). The making of Manchester Jewry 1740-1875. Manchester University Press.
76-80 King Street - Prudential Assurance Offices by Alfred Waterhouse, (1888) 81 King Street - Manchester Reform Club by Edward Salomons, (1870) Listed Grade II; 82 King Street - Former Bank of England Manchester branch, by C.R. Cockerell, (1845) Listed Grade I; 84–86 King Street - Former Manchester and Salford Savings Bank by Richard Lane ...
St John Street is a street in central Manchester, England.It consists mainly of late Georgian and Regency era terraced houses. Laid out between 1770 and 1830, the street runs roughly east–west between Deansgate and Byrom Street, terminating in an urban park, formerly the site of St John's Church, at its eastern end.
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Oldham Street is in Manchester city centre and forms part of the city's historic Northern Quarter district. The Northern Quarter is dominated by buildings that were built before World War II. [1] The street runs from Piccadilly to Great Ancoats Street on the edge of Ancoats, beyond which it continues northwards as Oldham Road, the A62.