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New Wakefield Street, MANCHESTER, M1 5AA

Off Oxford Street.

There is an OS benchmark Image on the bricks on the near side of the arch at the right hand side of the image

Looking along Manchester's Oxford Road (A34). The skyline on the right hand side of the road is dominated by the tower of the Palace Hotel (formerly the Refuge Assurance Building) just beyond the railway bridge. The Grade II listed building, at the corner of Oxford Street and Whitworth Street, originally designed and built between 1891–1895 for the Refuge Assurance Company. The 217 foot high tower was added in 1910–1912. The building remained occupied by The Refuge Assurance Company until 1987. It was converted to a hotel in 1996, and is now the Palace Hotel. http://www.principal-hayley.com/venues-and-hotels/the-palace-hotel Palace Hotel website

The Thirsty Scholar is a bar and night club situated under one of the railway arches by Oxford Road station. The area around New Wakefield Street has a lot of graffiti/street art. The council are threatening to remove it, hence the "Save our Street Art" posters.

Brightly painted, with a huge mural this is "Revolution".

Along Oxford Road you can't actually see over the parapet of the bridge over the River Medlock from street level. I raised my camera above, tilted slightly and pressed. This is what it saw, totally uncropped.

Modest but attractive Art Deco front. The building looked disused at the time of the photo. The beast behind is the same one as here: Image

Back in the 1970s freight locos through Oxford Road were generally classes 25 and 40. Now the ubiquitous class 66.

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm60739

Looking down the line towards Piccadilly. In the background is the grade II listed https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1271429 former Refuge Assurance Building built by Alfred Waterhouse in 1891. The insurance company moved out in 1987 and the building lay empty until 1996 when it was concerted into the Palace Hotel until being rebranced in 2016 as Principal Manchester. https://www.phcompany.com/principal/manchester-hotel/ The original Oxford Road station was opened in 1849 by the Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway. The station was completely rebuilt in 1874, again in 1903/4 and then in 1960 the old station was replaced by the present one.