Wellington Road North
Introduction
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Wellington Road North
Image: © Gerald England Taken: 24 Aug 2013
The A6 from Stockport to Manchester. Two buses on the busy #192 bus route are outside the former LNWR Goods Warehouse, a Grade II listed building. It was built in 1877 for the London and North Western Railway Company in the ltalianate style. Red brick with stone dressings, blue brick plinth and banding, white brick cornice and lettering. The warehouse narrowly escaped destruction from a bomb in World War II, sustaining slight damage to NW corner of building. It was designed to enable the efficient storage and transfer of goods between rail and road, and retains a range of different hoist mechanisms which include a manual hoist, six hydraulic jiggers, and two electric-powered hoists, positioned over trap doors replicated down through the floors, which illustrate how the building operated. Today it is used as a storage depot.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.414607
Longitude
-2.168765