Kendal Milne's, Deansgate, Manchester
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Kendal Milne's, Deansgate, Manchester
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 24 Jul 2011
Built 1939 by J.S. Beaumont, "unlike his usual work, or anything else in Manchester", observed Pevsner. He calls it a "sublimely monumental block ... in the German style of store architecture created by Messel early in the century, but stripped down. Windows are vertical strips of greenish glass blocks, with a barely perceptible camber introducing subtle curves and enlivening the stark [Portland stone] elevations with reflecting light." Grade II listed. It is now occupied by House of Fraser. It's the place to go if you have gloomy eyes or skin.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.481884
Longitude
-2.24754