Silk warehouse
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Silk warehouse by Alan Murray-Rust as part of the Geograph project.
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Silk warehouse
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 16 Sep 2007
This fine building was the last silk warehouse, but is now occupied by a firm of printers. The building faces onto Gas Road; this rather mundane name is due to the fact that Macclesfield was one of the first local authorities to build its own gasworks.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.260957
Longitude
-2.123036