Victoria Square, Oldham Road, Manchester
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Victoria Square, Oldham Road, Manchester
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 24 Jul 2011
Built by Spalding & Cross for the Manchester Corporation in 1897, replacing slums, the first such housing project and still public housing. Quadrangular with a courtyard and greenery inside. Pevsner picks out the good brickwork, and the decorative touches such as the gables and terracotta details. Grade II listed. Sadly, despite the architects' best efforts, Pevsner reports that "the initiative did not do the slum dwellers any good since they could not afford the rents and had to move to squalid conditions elsewhere."
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Image Location
Latitude
53.485874
Longitude
-2.22963