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Bridge Street, MANCHESTER, M3 2RE

This is looking along Wood Street to Deansgate. John Rylands Library is along the right, and there is a good view of the original setts beneath the tarmac. Once this narrow side-street would have been considered a main road.

Stagecoach Manchester's Enviro 400 (fleet no 19497, Reg MX09 ASU) at the junction of Bridge Street and Deansgate).

Sainsbury's on the junction of Bridge Street and Deansgate, closed and boarded up as a result of COVID-19.

Quite an impressive facade and not without interest, although it is not listed. It is a happy blend of Victorian arcaded windows with foliage capitals, and a post-war fascia which is worth preserving. It was built in the 1880s as part of a much larger warehouse for Henry Ogden, a cabinet maker. Information from http://manchesterhistory.net. It has clearly been occupied for some time by Forsyth Brothers, who describes itself as "the UK’s largest specialist music shop".

The Ellis Brigham Mountain Sports store on Deansgate displayed these paintings by landscape artist RP Roberts https://rproberts.com/ for the 50 Windows of Creativity project. They show winter alpine scenes, namely Aiguille du Midi in Chamonix, and Tryfan and the Ogwen valley in North Wales.

Aka Rational House. By Samuel Davidson, 1897. Red brick and stone dressings, windows recessed behind pairs of stone arches with pink granite columns and keystones of carved faces, and a small corner tower topped with an onion dome.

One section of the A34 through Manchester. The Bridge pub at #60 was originally The Bridge Street Tavern. 62 Bridge Street was the offices of Saudi Arabian Airlines in 2008 before becoming the Sundowners Travel Centre (c2012). Now that has been converted into Grindsmith's coffee lounge. 64 Bridge Street is Rational House, a four storey Victorian warehouse that has been converted into offices on the upper level and retail units on the ground. Some nine companies are registered at the address https://www.companieshousedata.co.uk/a/112552 The ground floor is occupied by outfitters Doherty Evans & Stott on one side and since 2017 by Randall & Aubin's brasserie restaurant https://www.randallandaubin.com/manchester/about.html on the other. Before that it had been "ligne roseet" aka "rankin styles".

62 Bridge Street was the offices of Saudi Arabian Airlines in 2008 before becoming the Sundowners Travel Centre (c2012). Now that has been converted into Grindsmith's coffee lounge. The Bridge pub at #60 was originally The Bridge Street Tavern.

Nicholsons pub at the corner of Deansgate and Bridge Street; externally, some fine mosaic tilework, internally, back bar with eating and drinking around it; games machine, function room upstairs. Six cask ales were on offer at my visit.

On the north side of Bridge Street as it climbs towards Deansgate.