EPW062700 ENGLAND (1939). The Gaythorn Gas Works and environs, Manchester, 1939

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Central Railway Station, now the Gmex centre (a multi use facility).

Paramount Picture House, opened in 1930 and later became The Odeon Cinema. At this time it is now closed and awaiting its fate as part of a redevelopment of the site.

Grosvenor Street.

River Medlock

Higher Cambridge Street.

River Medlock.

The Grosvenor Picture Palace.

Charles Street.

Oxford Street (north of the Medlock River).

St. James Building.

Oxford Road.

Sheltered walkway for the patrons of the Midland Hotel to use, when coming from and getting to its Central Railway Station

Midland Hotel

Rochdale Canal

Rochdale Canal

Rochdale Canal

Holy Family R.C. Church (St. Augustine's day chapel) occupied this plot along, with its infant school, until the mid 1960's redevelopment. And a new St. Augustine's Church was built here, as replacement for the one destroyed in the Dec. 1940 blitz.

St. Augustine's R.C. Church, Destroyed in the Dec. 1940 blitz. Built here in 1909 as the original church in Granby Row was basically in the way of the area redevelopment of that time. It then moved over to the smaller Holy Family church (its former day chapel) in Grosvenor Square. And redevelopment in the mid 1960's eventually lead to the new and existing St. Augustine's R.C. Church being built on the plot where the Holy Family Church and infant school once stood.

York Street, running from the north side of Charles Street to Rushulme Road, to the south.

All Saints Church and graveyard, demolished after WW2 and became a public park. This was the centre of Grosvenor Square.

Sydney Street, C-on-M.

Gaythorn Gas Works

2 sunken Rochdale Canal Barges which were later broken up when the canal was restored in the 1970's

Manchester Palace Theatre

Refuge Assurance, now the Palace Hotel.

Manchester Oxford Road Station

Bridgewater Canal

Whitworth Street West

Manchester Deansgate:- The station was opened with the name Knott Mill in 1849. It was rebuilt in 1896, a date still marked on the building. It was named Deansgate in 1971.

Albion Street

City Road East

Medlock Street