Former Ancoats Hospital
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Former Ancoats Hospital
Image: © Gerald England Taken: 6 Aug 2013
Completely wrapped in scaffolding and viewed from the side of the Chips apartment block by the Ashton Canal. The Ancoats hospital began life in 1828 as the Ardwick and Ancoats Dispensary on Great Ancoats Street. It moved to this building on Old Mill Street in 1869, built to serve the influx of people who came to the Ancoats area during Manchester's industrial hey-day. The hospital finally closed its doors in 1996 and the dispensary building is the last remaining in the area. Read further information and see it before it was wrapped in scaffolding on David Dixon's 2010 photograph Image A group "Ancoats Dispensary Trust" was formed in 2012 http://web.archive.org/web/20130915095809/http://www.saveancoatsdispensary.com/ with the aim of saving the building.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.482296
Longitude
-2.22072