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Ardwick Green North, MANCHESTER, M12 6HD

Near Ardwick Green North stands the Territorial Army Drill Hall and Offices, built in 1886 to a design by Lawrence Booth. Pevsner describes the building as "Three storeys with a battlemented roofline, rubble with ashlar dressings. Central entrance bay, corner tower with tall octagonal turret." Today it is home to D Company (Inkerman) of the 4th Battalion, Duke of Lancaster's Regiment - Infantry. Once this building was home to the famous 8th Ardwicks, the Eighth Territorial Battalion of the Manchester Regiment. On 4th August, 1914, the Battalion was mobilized from here and first set up camp near Hollingworth Lake, Littleborough. On 10th September 1914 they set sail from Southampton for Egypt. On May 6 1915 they arrived at Galipoli. In the park across the road from the drill hall is a memorial to those who died in that war.

Ardwick Green Barracks. A Territorial Army centre for the Kings and Cheshire Regiment. (Edit 3/2012. In 2006 reorganisation within the TA took place and the Barracks is now home to the 4th Battalion of The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment. See Gerald England's submission; Image )

Originally the old Volunteer Barracks, a Victorian castellated structure bearing the old volunteer motto "Defence Not Defiance". During WWII, after the 8th Battalion had moved out of their HQ on Ardwick Green, for most of the wartime period the drill hall was used by the Military Police as a "lockup" and would have housed deserters and absentees when apprehended and waiting for escorts to return them to their own unit. When Keith Williamson photographed the building in 2005 Image it was home to the Kings and Cheshire Regiment. In July 2006 the King's Regiment companies were amalgamated with the Lancastrian and Cumbrian Volunteers to form the 4th Battalion (Volunteers), Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's Lancashire and Border), and the Cheshire Regiment companies amalgamated with the West Midlands Regiment to form the 4th Battalion (Volunteers), Mercian Regiment. Now called Tanzano House and bearing the motto "Always Ready", the barracks is currently the home of the 4th Battalion of The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment. It is the only TA Infantry Unit in the North West of England which consists of 4 rifle company locations and 4 detachment locations employing some 500 men and women. The Battalion supports the Regular Army both at home and abroad, such as in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it provides assistance to the civil authorities in times of crisis such as the Foot and Mouth epidemic in 2001.

On the side of a building on Charlton Place Image in the Downing Street Industrial Estate. It is partially obscured by trees and only the top half is visible from the nearby Mancunian Way. It appears to be the work of Trafford Parsons and was created in 2017 or 2018.

One of several beds of crocuses in Ardwick Green.

Offices, studios and workshops in a former Victorian mill on the corner of Cakebread Street and Charlton Place.

Taken on Downing Street, looking south. The castle-like building on the left is the TA Centre.

What else would you expect to find on Cakebread Street? Adjoining Manor Street has a Georgian terrace at one end and a modern industrial unit at the other. The sandwich shop is called "Uppercrust".

Part of the Downing Street Industrial Estate.