Manchester Corporation decided in the early 1870s to replace the city’s main fish market in Strangeways with a new one located near Shudehill,
Published in The Building News, November 27 1874: “Which are now about completed, stand on a plot of ground adjoining the Town-hall,
John Owens, a Manchester textile merchant, bequeathed £96,942 in 1846 for the purpose of founding a college for the education of males on non-sectarian lines.
The first Manchester cotton exchange opened in 1729 but closed by the end of the century.
The Liverpool Seamen’s Orphan Institution was established in order to provide care and education for the many Liverpool children who lost families at sea.
Designed by Maxwell & Tuke of Bury. Published in The Building News, December 24th 1875.
Perspective view published in The Building News, March 6th 1874.
Church extensively damaged following bombing on the 28th and 29th of August 1940 – the first church in England to be bombed.
