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Princess Street, MANCHESTER, M1 6DD

A stunning example of Manchester's palazzo warehouses, by the masters Clegg & Knowles, 1869. Red brick with stone dressings - quoins, surrounds to the first-floor windows and keystones. The amount and disposition of the detail is spot on. Grade II listed. It is one of a sequence of particularly fine warehouses on this street, each occupying a whole block. It has now been converted into offices, but the basement is occupied by a nightclub, Cruz 101.

Another deserted streets in the centre of Manchester.

A smashing building, built as the Mechanics' Institute in 1854-55 to the designs of J.E. Gregan (his last work). Pevsner comments that "the nobility and purity of its design sets it apart" from the nearby later warehouses. Brick with stone dressings, generously proportioned, pediments to the first-floor windows. Round the corner three tall arched windows must have flooded the lecture hall with light. Grade II* listed. According to Wikipedia, the building has a most illustrious past: the Trades Union Congress, Co-operative Insurance Society and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology were all founded here. It currently houses the archives of the National Labour Museum. It is one of a sequence of particularly fine buildings on this street, each occupying a whole block.

View along the main A34 near Manchester city centre.

Last minute adjustments to the official clock at the junction of Portland St and Oxford St at the start of the Manchester 10k race.

A grand edifice of stone, with Continental Gothic motifs (Pevsner). The windows are paired on each floor, and gradually diminish in size as one ascends. Built to the designs of Victorian Manchester's premier firm of warehouse-architects, Clegg & Knowles, c1870. Grade II listed. It was built as the Pickles Building, and is now a hotel.

There is an OS benchmark Image on the near corner of the building on the Princess Street face. The plaque on the Hart Street face records the first meeting of the Co-operative Insurance Company on 16 November 1867

Another super example of Manchester's warehouses. A rich concoction of orangey-red brick with stone dressings, striped on the ground floor, carved panels, oriel windows and a lively roofline of hipped gables crowned with finials. By Pennington & Bridgen, 1887. Grade II listed. It is one of a sequence of particularly fine warehouses on this street. This one currently serves as housing, offices and bars.

A crisp glass box by Norman Bailey & Partners, 1959-61. Built as Telephone House. Recently refurbished and advertising office space for rent.