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Harter Street, MANCHESTER, M1 6HP

Built as a paper warehouse in the late C19th. Of plum-red brick with impressive arcades in the upper storeys and pilasters adorned with swags. Grade II listed. For how long has it been empty? A small wood is developing above the cornice.

Built 1901, with arched windows and prominent octagonal chimney. Grade II listed. It was apparently one of the earliest combined heat and power stations in the country. I believe that in some form or another it still provides power.

Grade II listed. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-458617-former-electricity-power-station- Built in 1901.

A 1960s/1970s office block with modish ceramic tiles, feature staircase, and an arresting mixture of green, white and black. It's T-shaped and continues behind. Recently refurbished and awaiting new tenants.

Linley House, glass office block at the end of the road, was once the home to the North West Electricity Board. It built in 1963 by H. S. Fairhurst & Son. It stands on the site of the former Dickinson Road power station.

Built on the site of the Dickinson Road power station in 1963 by H. S. Fairhurst & Son., this was once the offices of the Northwest Electricity Board. The current owners, United Utilities, are their successor, and the building has also been home to Cable and Wireless Ltd.

I wonder what has passed through those doors over the years?

This is well in the Gay Village but my focal point was the truncated city centre chimney. This is on Bloom Street (Winser Street) Power Station. This had been built as an electrical power station but in more recent years had provided district heating. It was built in 1901 as a power station for lighting and tramways with reciprocating steam engines. The original Babcock & Wilcox boilers were replaced by oil-fired boilers in 1953. District heating, especially combined as a CHP (combined heat and power) scheme is an excellent energy efficient concept that has yet to find much favour in the UK. The best schemes make use of in excess of 90% of the energy in the fuel. By contrast your big old coal burning power station is around 37-40% efficient, many combined cycle stations can do around 50% and the very best have cracked 60%. On the other hand a steam locomotive was around 6% (all figures approximate).

Grade II listed. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-458617-former-electricity-power-station-

The Rochdale canal view of a listed building, the former Winser Street electric power station, often known as Bloom Street power station. It was built by the city council and was the second electric power station to be built to supply the city and nearby suburbs. The first was adjacent to it in Dickinson Street. The base of the matching redbrick boiler chimney can just be seen above the centre of the roof. It started to supply power (direct current, DC not AC, alternating current as supplied today) in 1901 and the new municipal electric tram services were big power consumers. It looks designed so that coal could be directly off-loaded from barges into the power station bunkers. The bridge crossing the canal in the distance carries Princess Street. Above the photographer is an access bridge to the power station.