Manchester: Princess Street
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Manchester: Princess Street by Christopher Hilton as part of the Geograph project.
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Manchester: Princess Street
Image: © Christopher Hilton Taken: 15 Jun 2022
The road here climbs from the crossing of the River Medlock towards the bridge carrying the railway from Piccadilly station (right) towards Oxford Road station (left). The building on the extreme left is the former headquarters of Factory Records; it is now a nightclub (run by Peter Hook, bassist in Joy Division, New Order, and Peter Hook and the Light) named FAC251. Factory Records assigned catalogue numbers to a variety of projects or concepts over and above their record releases and FAC251 is the number that was assigned to their headquarters. For more about Factory Records and their founder Tony Wilson, see the images of FAC51, the Haçienda nightclub: https://www.geograph.org.uk/snippet/17257.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.474174
Longitude
-2.237401