EPW017617 ENGLAND (1927). Oxford Road and environs, Manchester, from the south-west, 1927

THEN AS NOW LONDON ROAD END BANK, CORONER OFFICE, FIRE STATION, AS THEN 1920 s GAS OFFICE,METER TESTING STATION, AND HALF WAY DOWN WHITWORTH ST, THEN POLICE STATION TO MINSHULL ST, MINSHULL ST AMBULANCE STATION. THEN

THEN LONDON ROAD STATION, (L.M.S.& L.N.E.R)

LONGFORD WORKS, UP TO MAIN ROAD, UNDERCLOTHING.THEN

CHATHAM WORKS,COTTON WAST,THEN.

PRINTING WORKS.

WILMOTT STREET.

NEWCASTLE STREET.

Originally GLOUCESTER STREET FROM OXFORD ROAD UNTIL HULME STREET, THEN JUST THE JUNCTION UNDER RAIL BRIDGE TO THE BEND THEN LOWER OXFORD ST AS NOW,

CAMBRIDGE INDIA RUBBER WORKS AS THEN 1920s.

GAYTHORN GAS WORKS, MANCHESTER CORPORATION,THEN

St. PHILIP'S CHURCH, CORNER CHESTER STREET, NEWCASTLE STREET,THEN . NOW Unite Students - Parkway Gate .

POWER STATION, St. ANN'S STREET.

St. MARY'S WOMEN & CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL.THEN

CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL,THEN

TOWN HALL,THEN,

SKOOOL OF ART.THEN

Salutation Public House.

Lass O'Gowrie Public House

The 2nd. St. Augustine's R.C. Church built here, and opened in 1908, after moving from Granby Row due to redevelopment of the area for the large Engineering School and the continuation of Whitworth Street. Destroyed during the December blitz of 1940. The parish then moved over to the Holy Family R.C. Church, in nearby Grosvenor Square.

Stretford Road.

Higher Cambridge Street.

Cambridge Street.

Lower Cambridge Street

Cavendish Street

Oxford Road.

Sydney Street.

Once part of the Northern School of Music and in its later years the Students Union for Manchester Polytechnic

Grosvenor Street.

Manchester Fire Station.

River Medlock, meandering through Chorlton-on-Medlock. During the sixties redevelopment the Medlock was culverted from London Road through to just short of Brook Street for the building work of the UMIST Campus.

River Medlock, meandering through Chorlton-on-Medlock. During the sixties redevelopment the Medlock was culverted from London Road through to just short of Brook Street for the building work of the UMIST Campus.

River Medlock, meandering through Chorlton-on-Medlock. During the sixties redevelopment the Medlock was culverted from London Road through to just short of Brook Street for the building work of the UMIST Campus.

Rusholme Road.

Brook Street.

The Grosvenor Picture Palace.

Holy Family Infants School.

Holy Family R.C. Church was the day chapel to the larger St. Augustine's R.C. Church on York Street. When St. Augustines was destroyed in the bombing Dec. 1940 the parish moved to the Holy Family Church, which eventually was demolished approx. 1968, to make way for the third St. Augustines, 1970.

Cavendish School.

Paulden's Department Store, on the corner of Cambridge Street and Cavendish Street, destroyed by fire in 1957. Business then moved to Market Street, Central Manchester.

All Saints Church and graveyard, within Grosvenor Square. The church was demolished in 1946

Dunlop General Good Division, previously Charles Macintosh. The first commercial rubber factory in the world. Many of the surrounding buildings were part of the business, and didn't close until around 2000. I worked in the labs there 1977 - 1984, fascinating but dirty and smelly place.

Rochdale Canal

This chimney belongs to a power station on Bloom Street, opened 1901, which also provided district heating from 1911 by means of asbestos insulated steam pipes laid along the nearby Rochdale canal. The Palace Theatre was warmed by this means.

The Palace Theatre. Opened 1891. Took a direct hit from a bomb in September 1940 but was rebuilt and remains open.

Hulme Street

Charles Street

Manchester Piccadilly Gardens. The lowered square central area was the basement of Manchester Royal Infirmary which had abandoned this site by 1914. In modern times the gardens have been filled in and are mostly concrete with very poorly turf which as to be renewed very often. There is now a multi story building on the left hand side of the gardens which makes the rest of the area prone to be always in the shade.

Canal Street. In days of horse drawn boats this was the "towpath" for the canal alongside, now it is a drinking area in Manchester's "Gay village".

Manchester Crown Court at Minshull Street (not to be confused with Manchester Crown Court which is elsewhere...). Built in 1873. There have been modern glass extensions since. Busy Crown Court but not used for the highest security cases nor for murder cases (which go to the other court near Deansgate). Minshull Street Crown Court is currently used for most cases from Greater Manchester Magistrates Courts other than from Manchester City Centre Magistrates court.

Mayfield Road Station, connected by bridge to Piccadilly (formerly London Road) station. Used as a parcels depot and in the 60s as an overflow station for Piccadilly (eg commuter trains to Stockport). It was used in the tv program "The Last Train" as although now derelict and unused, many railway artefacts (eg buffers) remain.

Manchester Piccadilly Railway Station

Refuge Assurance Building, now used as Palace Hotel.

St James Buildings on Oxford Road, 60 metres high, built 1912 as HQ of Calico Printers Association

Oxford Road railway station - built 1849, completely rebuilt 1874. New buildings in 1960. To the left for Liverpool and North Wales via Warrington Bank Quay. To the right for Piccadilly and stations South and East.

St James building