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New Bailey Street, SALFORD, M3 5AJ

Riverside is an office complex between New Bailey Street and the Trinity Bridge and the River Irwell and Browncross Street in Salford. It was designed by the architectural practice of Leach Rhodes Walker and built in 1967.

Striking office complex which looked to me like the sort of building a 1970s film director would have used for a film set in some crazy, futuristic year like 2001. In plan it is composed of three roughly-L-shaped blocks, one of which (on the left) is detached from the others. Built of white concrete with "funnel-like windows" (Image]), apart from the black granite pavilion in the foreground. By Leach, Rhodes & Walker, 1967. It appears to have recently been given the Bruntwood treatment (ubiquitous local property developers). In the fore-foreground is the River Irwell.

The bronze statue to Joseph Brotherton on New Bailey Street, overlooking the Salford bank of the River Irwell. Joseph Brotherton (1783 – 1857) was a reforming British politician, Nonconformist minister and pioneering vegetarian. In 1789, His family moved to Salford where he later established a cotton and silk mill. In 1819, aged thirty-six, Brotherton retired from the family business in order to devote his energy to his ministry, using his position to actively improve the conditions of workers and campaign for reforms. Among his achievements were the building of schools, the opening of a lending library and the establishment of a fund to support the victims of the Peterloo Massacre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterloo_Massacre ). He was also an overseer of the poor and a justice of the peace. In 1832 Joseph Brotherton was elected as Salford's first Member of Parliament serving in the House of Commons for the next twenty-four years. Brotherton was so popular with the people of Salford that he was re-elected five times and he stood unopposed at the elections of 1847 and 1852. In parliament he campaigned against the death penalty, for the abolition of slavery and for free non-denominational education. He actively supported the Municipal Corporations Bill, which led to Manchester and Salford having democratically-elected councils. He took an interest in the facilities provided by the new municipalities, and was largely responsible for the opening of Peel Park, Salford and Weaste Cemetery. After his sudden death from a heart attack in 1857, the people of Salford started a “Joseph Brotherton Memorial Fund” from which they commissioned a bronze statue of Brotherton in Peel Park. The statue was dismantled in 1954 and sold into private ownership in 1969. It was purchased by Manchester City Council in 1986, and was resited at Riverside Walk, overlooking the River Irwell towards Salford. The pedestal includes Joseph Brotherton's motto: "My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants." http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRbrotherton.htm Joseph Brotherton Biography

The bronze statue to Joseph Brotherton on New Bailey Street, overlooking the Salford bank of the River Irwell. The tall buildings in the background are in Manchester. Joseph Brotherton (1783 – 1857) was a reforming British politician, Nonconformist minister and pioneering vegetarian. In 1789, His family moved to Salford where he later established a cotton and silk mill. In 1819, aged thirty-six, Brotherton retired from the family business in order to devote his energy to his ministry, using his position to actively improve the conditions of workers and campaign for reforms. Among his achievements were the building of schools, the opening of a lending library and the establishment of a fund to support the victims of the Peterloo Massacre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterloo_Massacre ). He was also an overseer of the poor and a justice of the peace. In 1832 Joseph Brotherton was elected as Salford's first Member of Parliament serving in the House of Commons for the next twenty-four years. Brotherton was so popular with the people of Salford that he was re-elected five times and he stood unopposed at the elections of 1847 and 1852. In parliament he campaigned against the death penalty, for the abolition of slavery and for free non-denominational education. He actively supported the Municipal Corporations Bill, which led to Manchester and Salford having democratically-elected councils. He took an interest in the facilities provided by the new municipalities, and was largely responsible for the opening of Peel Park, Salford and Weaste Cemetery. After his sudden death from a heart attack in 1857, the people of Salford started a “Joseph Brotherton Memorial Fund” from which they commissioned a bronze statue of Brotherton in Peel Park. The statue was dismantled in 1954 and sold into private ownership in 1969. It was purchased by Manchester City Council in 1986, and was resited at Riverside Walk, overlooking the River Irwell towards Salford. See also Image http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRbrotherton.htm Joseph Brotherton Biography

A 17-storey apartment block on the north bank of the River Irwell.

View from the People's History Museum. Redevelopment has taken place and continues all around. Trinity Bridge and the Lowry Hotel are at centre right. Compare with Image (November 1994). At least one building is in both photos.

The car park of the Lowry Hotel, beware they charge £12 per 24 hours.

View from Albert Bridge.

Looking across the River Irwell (the traditional boundary between the cities of Manchester and Salford) from the second floor of the People's History Museum on Bridge Street.