Elisabeth House, St Peter's Square, Manchester
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The photograph on this page of Elisabeth House, St Peter's Square, Manchester by Stephen Richards as part of the Geograph project.
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Elisabeth House, St Peter's Square, Manchester
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 24 Jul 2011
By Cruickshank & Seward, 1959-60. A square complex with central courtyard, shops at ground floor, and offices projecting above, all nestling under an oversailing concrete canopy. The shops are boarded up and it has been empty for some years now while schemes to replace it with (inevitably) a tower have come to nothing. Refurbishment would be sufficient, unless a quality scheme worthy of the location emerges. On the left is the Cenotaph: Image Further left is one of the CCTV cameras now ubiquitous in British cities. Fellow Geographer Keith Williamson informs me that, at February 2012, demolition of this building is almost complete.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.477398
Longitude
-2.243446