EAW050212 ENGLAND (1953). Piccadilly Gardens and environs, Manchester, 1953
© Hawlfraint cyfranwyr OpenStreetMap a thrwyddedwyd gan yr OpenStreetMap Foundation. 2024. Trwyddedir y gartograffeg fel CC BY-SA.
Delweddau cyfagos (17)
EAW050212
0°
0m
EAW015999
162°
19m
EAW038397
44°
89m
EPW055079
160°
93m
EAW038399
48°
111m
EAW050213
223°
118m
EPW019092
314°
138m
EPW045990
46°
147m
EPW041553
239°
153m
EPW019135
312°
164m
EPW055080
245°
178m
EPW019136
296°
184m
EPW055069
74°
199m
EPW045989
128°
229m
EPW038597
5°
238m
EPW038598
0°
238m
EPW019094
152°
269m
Manylion
| Pennawd | [EAW050212] Piccadilly Gardens and environs, Manchester, 1953 |
| Cyfeirnod | EAW050212 |
| Dyddiad | 29-June-1953 |
| Dolen | |
| Enw lle | MANCHESTER |
| Plwyf | |
| Ardal | |
| Gwlad | ENGLAND |
| Dwyreiniad / Gogleddiad | 384341, 398264 |
| Hydred / Lledred | -2.2359835698235, 53.48061326894 |
| Cyfeirnod Grid Cenedlaethol | SJ843983 |
Pinnau
 Dale Street |
 totoro |
Monday 20th of October 2014 07:37:34 PM |
| Church St |
totoro |
Monday 20th of October 2014 07:37:18 PM |
| Tib Street |
totoro |
Monday 20th of October 2014 07:36:57 PM |
| Minshull Street |
totoro |
Monday 20th of October 2014 07:34:27 PM |
| Aytoun Street |
totoro |
Monday 20th of October 2014 07:34:01 PM |
| City Police Courts
Currently "Manchester Crown Court at Minshull Street"
Much extended and modified since this image. The tower remains.
Grade 2* listed - English Heritage Building ID: 388318
City police courts. 1868-71, by Thomas Worthington. Red brick with sandstone dressings, steeply-pitched slate roofs. Rectangular plan on corner site. Italian Gothic style.
Two-and-a-half storeys over basement, plus tower at north-west corner, |
totoro |
Monday 20th of October 2014 07:32:39 PM |
| Former bank (most recently Barclays), currently empty.
Grade 2 listed building - English Heritage Building ID: 455652
Dated 1911 on frieze; by Thomas Worthington and Son, for Union Bank of Manchester. Portland stone, slate roof. Rectangular plan on corner site, with chamfered corner. Classical style. Four storeys and attic, 4 bays to Piccadilly and 8-bay return to Chatham Street; |
totoro |
Monday 20th of October 2014 07:32:14 PM |
| Telephone Buildings
Grade 2 - English Heritage Building ID: 458643
Former telephone exchange. 1909, by L.Stokes and Beaumont. Red brick; cream faience dressings and banding; blue brick bands to quoins; granite basement; leaded roof. Rectangular plan. Three storeys with basement and attic, 5 bays to York Street; central segmental-headed entrance with paired wooden doors; |
totoro |
Monday 20th of October 2014 07:31:44 PM |
| Although this road now has a very large building over it, there remains a pedestrian route through to remind us of this road. It now has doors and can be locked. |
totoro |
Monday 20th of October 2014 07:31:20 PM |
| Rylands Building - now Debenhams
Grade 2 listed building -English Heritage Building ID: 388312
Wholesale textile warehouse, now department store. 1932, by Harry S.Fairhurst, for Rylands and Sons. Steel frame with cladding of Portland stone (roof concealed). Very large irregular quadrilateral plan.
One of the last and biggest textile warehouses built in the city. |
totoro |
Monday 20th of October 2014 07:30:45 PM |
| Mosley St |
totoro |
Monday 20th of October 2014 07:30:12 PM |
| York Street, currently renamed for no good reason as New York Street, which fools no-one. It still looks like a back street with entry to hotel car park. |
totoro |
Monday 20th of October 2014 07:29:48 PM |
| Parker Street |
totoro |
Monday 20th of October 2014 07:29:21 PM |
| This whole block was built around the 60's as a massive multi story development with a hotel to the left (still existing- currently Mercure), a shopping plaza at ground level (existing) and first floor (never really used) and offices above in the middle and right. |
totoro |
Monday 20th of October 2014 07:28:06 PM |
| Queen Victoria Monument
Grade 2 listed English Heritage Building ID: 456029
Monument to Queen Victoria. 1901, by Onslow Ford. Portland stone with bronze statuary.
A bronze statue of the Queen seated on the throne |
totoro |
Monday 20th of October 2014 07:27:31 PM |
| Wellington Statue
Grade 2 listed English Heritage Building ID: 456031
Monument to the Duke of Wellington. 1856, by Matthew Noble.
Ashlar plinth and pedestal, bronze statuary. |
totoro |
Monday 20th of October 2014 07:27:11 PM |
| Trolleybus - a double decker bus on wheels but collecting power from overhead wires. |
totoro |
Monday 20th of October 2014 07:26:50 PM |
| This area has in modern times been used for a modern tram platform (Manchester Metrolink) with a concrete wall and food takeaways built between the platform and the little grass remaining. |
totoro |
Monday 20th of October 2014 07:25:55 PM |
| This area has in recent times had a large multi story building placed on it, ensuring what little recreational area remains is usually in shadow, |
totoro |
Monday 20th of October 2014 07:25:33 PM |
| Piccadilly Gardens.
This area was in modern times and at great expense covered with a large multi jet fountain, usually out of action and currently not working for several months. There is a question whether it will be repaired, simplified or removed. |
totoro |
Monday 20th of October 2014 07:25:13 PM |
| London Road |
totoro |
Monday 20th of October 2014 07:24:43 PM |
| Station Approach |
totoro |
Monday 20th of October 2014 07:24:13 PM |