103 Princess Street, Manchester
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103 Princess Street, Manchester
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 22 Jun 2011
A smashing building, built as the Mechanics' Institute in 1854-55 to the designs of J.E. Gregan (his last work). Pevsner comments that "the nobility and purity of its design sets it apart" from the nearby later warehouses. Brick with stone dressings, generously proportioned, pediments to the first-floor windows. Round the corner three tall arched windows must have flooded the lecture hall with light. Grade II* listed. According to Wikipedia, the building has a most illustrious past: the Trades Union Congress, Co-operative Insurance Society and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology were all founded here. It currently houses the archives of the National Labour Museum. It is one of a sequence of particularly fine buildings on this street, each occupying a whole block.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.476867
Longitude
-2.239375