Coates School (1), Jersey Street
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Coates School (1), Jersey Street
Image: © P L Chadwick Taken: 2 May 2010
The school has gone and this building only has the old school's foundation stone in it. The style is presumably a kind of replica of the original. A lot of restoration work has taken place in Ancoats to try to save the important buildings, and find a way to incorporate them into a community for the 21st Century but there have been failures. According to Mark Crinson in his book "Urban Memory", "(for) the Coates School on Jersey Street, renovations came too late to save the structure, and an old stone sign "Coates School 1821" in a new building testifies to the ghostly presence of the past". Image Image
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Image Location
Latitude
53.483089
Longitude
-2.229314