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Waterloo Street, MANCHESTER, M1 6HX

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.

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

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm60736

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.

A good pair of warehouse by prolific local firm, Clegg & Knowles, 1871. Of yellow brick rather than their customary red. There are stepped segmental arches over the entrances. Grade II listed. It is currently, at least in part, a nightclub. It is one of a sequence of particularly fine warehouses on this street, each occupying a whole block.

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.

The first group of the 33,000 runners waiting for the start of the Manchester 10k race in Portland St.

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.