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I always think that the Black Friar pub in Salford is a really attractive building.
It looks dwarfed now by the new buildings around the area.
University of Manchester Museum, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England
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A time line of the main buildings on view in this image.
On the left side is what used to be an extensive parcel sorting and post office, completed in 1894. A specialist building strategically sited between the Exchange and Victoria stations in Manchester; it is now apartments. Exchange station no longer exists. The Bridge is the railway bridge crossing the River Irwell, late 1800’s; it was the track between the two stations; still in use today.
The next building to the right is ‘Chetham’s School of Music'. It started life as Chetham’s Library and Hospital in 1653 for the education of "the sons of honest, industrious and painful parents". The library holds more than 100,000 volumes of printed books, of which 60,000 were published before 1851. They include collections of 16th and 17th century printed works. It is the oldest free public reference library in the English-speaking world and is still open to readers; free of charge, by prior appointment only.
The green building above is the Urbis, it was opened in 2002 as an Exhibition Centre and Museum. In 2010 it closed after the opportunity arose for Manchester to host the National Football Museum. It re-opened in 2012 after a complete re-fit and is now the permanent NFM.
The clock face to the right of the Urbis is part of what is now ‘The Print Works’; a bustling, vibrant entertainment hub in the centre of Manchester, with a cinema, restaurants, health and fitness centre, and even a nightclub. However the current building started life as something very different. Located on the corner of Withy Grove and Corporation Street it started life as a publishing house in 1873 and was known as the Withy Grove Printing House. It was also the place where the northern editions of many daily papers, including The Daily Mirror and Daily Telegraph, were printed from 1925 to 1984.
In 1985 it was bought by the infamous newspaper mogul Robert Maxwell for £1, raising immediate concern for the jobs of everyone working there. It was renamed Maxwell House. Maxwell went on to close the plant the following year, in the wake of a scandal. The building it lay idle for a decade after its closure. After the IRA bomb in 1996 the building was bought in 1998 and eventually re-opened as ‘The Print Works’.
The next building to the right is ‘The Light House’ apartment block; also known as ‘The Pall Mall Tower’, a 20-storey building completed in 2008.
Finally the building on the right is the second half of a development on the site of the former Exchange Railway Station and is known as ’100 Embankment’; it is an Office Block, completed in 2020. The other half of the development is ’101 Embankment’ which is situated next to this building; ironically it was built first. This building can be viewed at:
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So the buildings range in age from 1653 up to and including 2020, a range of 367 years. The rest of the building on view were built in-between those dates.
The car? I have no idea what year that is. According to Andy Rouse it could possibly be an Audi A4 Avant 2017-current; he knows these things 😂
The young man is probably circa 2000, his cup of Costa coffee, about 20 minutes.
This Information is taken from the Manchester Evening News and other sources on the internet.