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Bury Street, SALFORD, M3 7DU

View looking up Cross Street in Salford.

This building on Blackfriars Road was the former Sacred Trinity Parish School.

Manchester Tennis & Racquets Courts is an uninspiring building on Blackfriars Road, opened in 1880 and designed by architect GT Redmayne. Defying its outer appearance, the interior boasts a number of historical features including a real tennis court and skittle alley.

Manchester Victoria station used to be connected to the erstwhile Exchange station by the longest platform in the country. At the far west end, D5054 brings an engineering train from the west through the station. Definitely 1968, probably around Easter.

Sacred Trinity church was originally built as a chapel-of-ease to serve the growing population of Salford in 1635. It is Salford's oldest church and is a grade II listed building with many original features. Most of the current building dates from 1752 but it was restored in 1877-74 and adapted for more flexible use in the 1980’s. Painted by LS Lowry in 1925 it is one of the only views in his paintings that remains unchanged. William Webb Ellis was Christened here (famed for inventing the game of Rugby in 1823).

The once impressive Caxton Hall, rendered somewhat less impressive by the modern shop frontages References say that it was built in 1907 for the Typographical Society of Manchester although the front of the building clearly carries the date “1904” (Image]). It was named after William Caxton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Caxton , inventor of the printing press. The building was hired out to socialists and trade union activists for most of its life and was an important venue for the labour movement in Salford and Manchester. http://www.visitsalford.info/documents/chapelstreettrail.pdf Chapel Street Heritage Trail http://manchesterhistory.net/manchester/outside/SALFORD/caxtonhall.html Manchester History Net

The once impressive Caxton Hall, rendered somewhat less impressive by the modern shop frontages References say that it was built in 1907 for the Typographical Society of Manchester although the front of the building clearly carries the date “1904” (Image]). It was named after William Caxton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Caxton , inventor of the printing press. The building was hired out to socialists and trade union activists for most of its life and was an important venue for the labour movement in Salford and Manchester. http://www.visitsalford.info/documents/chapelstreettrail.pdf Chapel Street Heritage Trail http://manchesterhistory.net/manchester/outside/SALFORD/caxtonhall.html Manchester History Net

A close-up look at the front of Caxton Hall (see Image] and Image] for wider views) show that it carries the date 1904 although the first reference cited below says that it was built in 1907 for the Typographical Society of Manchester. It was named after William Caxton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Caxton , inventor of the printing press. The building was hired out to socialists and trade union activists for most of its life and was an important venue for the labour movement in Salford and Manchester. http://www.visitsalford.info/documents/chapelstreettrail.pdf Chapel Street Heritage Trail http://manchesterhistory.net/manchester/outside/SALFORD/caxtonhall.html Manchester History Net

Looking along Blackfriars Road (A6041), towards Blakes' Vauxhall dealership, from Cross Street.

Built in 1904 for the Manchester Typographical Society, which was very active in the Trades Union. It comprised meeting rooms and offices with lettable retail spaces at ground level. The name commemorates William Caxton who introduced printing to Britain in the 15th century. An attractive building in red brick and terracotta, but not listed.