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Bloom Street, MANCHESTER, M1 3HR

Looking north-east along Bloom Street. The Crown Court looms largest: Image Further away, whiter and more modern is: Image

Mid/late-C19th shipping warehouse. The usual combination of red brick with stone window dressings, varying on each floor. In this case, the facades also differ as the main front (on Bloom Street) has paired windows (as well as a ridiculously under-scaled pediment) unlike the short front to Minshull Street. Grade II listed. It is currently a nightclub, Essential.

View long Bloom Street from its corner with Minshull Street.

Substantial but very much a plain Jane among Manchester's former warehouses. By Pennington & Bridgen, 1889. Grade II listed.

Aka Mindel House. A fairly modest mid-C19th warehouse, the modesty being gauged by the amount of ornament. This has a stone ground floor and quoins but little else. It is nevertheless easy on the eye. Grade II listed.

Looking east along Bloom St. from Sackville St. The Famous Paddys Goose on the right and the Clock Tower of Minshull St. Law Courts in the background.

Initially I wasn't sure if this postbox had been dug up and then become wonky when being reinstated, or whether it had simply been hit by something. Comparing it with another picture from 2017 on this site however, Image, it is obviously wonky due to having been hit by a vehicle, as the dug-up square bit of pavement around it is on that picture too. The most surprising thing though, is the last collection times for the postbox, which are very early in the morning considering its city centre location. Increasing use of mobile phones and the internet have caused a huge decrease in the amount of letters posted over the last 10 or 15 years, making a lot of postboxes uneconomic. Therefore this is no doubt a 'Collection on Delivery' postbox, meaning that the mail is collected by the person delivering the mail in the area while on their morning rounds. The Royal Mail website says that there will always be a late afternoon collection postbox still available within a mile of any of these relatively newly changed 'morning' postboxes.

Grade II* listed. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-388318-city-police-courts-manchester

A suitably grand expression of civic pride, designed by Thomas Worthington and built in 1867-73. Plenty of Gothic windows, and a monumental tower and smaller chimney or turret (the latter seen to better effect here: Image]). The tower is characteristic of Worthington, e.g. see also Image Grade II* listed.