8 Great Marlborough Street, Manchester
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8 Great Marlborough Street, Manchester
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 17 May 2012
Perhaps late C19th and built as a warehouse, but now used by Manchester Metropolitan University. A red plaque records that it stands on the site of Little Ireland where "large numbers of immigrant Irish workers lived in appalling housing conditions. Built c1827. Vacated c1847. Demolished c1877."
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Image Location
Latitude
53.472997
Longitude
-2.241914
