Former Town Hall, Cavendish Street, Manchester
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Former Town Hall, Cavendish Street, Manchester
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 23 Jul 2011
With a majestic portico of four fluted Greek Doric columns surmounted by a pediment. By Richard Lane, 1830-31. Grade II listed. Built as the Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall and Dispensary, in 1970 everything behind the facade was removed for a new building for Manchester Polytechnic, now Manchester Metropolitan University. A plaque records that the building hosted the fifth Pan-African Conference in 1945, decisions at which "led to liberation of African counties". In an all too familiar tale, it has not been sympathetically treated by recent redevelopment Image
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Image Location
Latitude
53.469769
Longitude
-2.237828