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Once technical institute and library, this building on Stretford Road now houses the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Temple. Chinese readers will find this link useful: http://www.blia.org/

Slightly bizarre metal-fronted café on Stretford Road. Up metal spiral stairway to first floor; sit under parasols and camouflage netting (indoors). When you've finished, you can browse neighbouring camping equipment. http://www.baileyitalia.co.uk/

Two Stagecoach buses, on routes 255 and 256, make their way along Chester Road (A5104) en-route for Manchester city centre.

Limelight is a new community health and well-being hub based in the heart of the Old Trafford area. In 2013, Trafford Housing Trust gained funding to build 80 Extra Care apartments in the Old Trafford area. Working in collaboration with Trafford Council, the Trust took the opportunity to redevelop the Old Community Centre also known as The Library on Shrewsbury Street. The new Limelight development was designed in two phases; the first phase was to demolish the community centre and to re-site St Brides Church to an empty plot of land on St Brides Way. The Church was completed in 2016 and was officially opened on Mother’s Day 2016. The second phase of the Limelight development includes 81 Extra Care apartments for older and vulnerable people and a day nursery, pharmacy, hair and beauty hub, café, library, meeting room facilities for hire and healthcare facilities.

Strikingly white, though it wasn't always so, with Deco overtones and a pair of giant Ionic columns flanking the entrance. Built for the eponymous drug company. It has had a rocky ride since Image As can be seen it was not demolished, but a scheme to convert it to flats foundered when the developers went bust and it is now one of a trio of fine but slowly decaying neighbouring buildings on Chester Road.

The home of the well known cough medicine created by Sir William Veno. The company became part of the Beecham pharmaceuticals empire in the 1930s. This building is sadly now being demolished.

Part finished residential development.

The nearest building was the former Veno Drug Company factory, the central one latterly the Trafford Press; both these two have lost their rear buildings, but maybe the facades will survive. The third building with its towers is a former essences factory and is Grade II listed. Three fine examples of different stiles of terracotta architecture, but will they survive?

Finely carved terracotta detail to this building: Image