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Dantzic Street, MANCHESTER, M4 4DW

The top end of Corporation Street in Manchester.

Ashton House, near the junction of Dantzic Street and Corporation Street, is a student residence building for the Manchester Metropolitan University. It was built by Manchester Corporation and, when opened in 1910, was England’s first purpose-built model lodging house for women. At that time, Ashton House catered for 222 women who slept in dormitories with individual cubicles. The women cooked for themselves in communal kitchens. According to English Heritage (http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/discover/people-and-places/womens-history/buildings-that-celebrate-working-women/ashton-house/ ) “It is a sober yet well-articulated Arts and Crafts building that featured banded buff faience dressings and rubbed bricks with subtle castellation and the words 'Ashton House' picked out in stylish lettering”. In 1988, it was designated a Grade II listed building “as a subtle but impressive Arts and Crafts residential institution that has a particular historic claim as the first municipal hostel for women of such size and quality” (http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1197764 the National Heritage List for England). More photographs and information about Ashton House may be found at Manchester History Net (http://manchesterhistory.net/manchester/tours/tour12/area12page47.html ) and Looking at Buildings (http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/cities/manchester/walks-and-tours/socialprovision/ragged-schools-and-ashton-house.html )

Looking from Aspin Lane towards "1, Angel Square" - the first phase of 53ºNOMA a large mixed-use development which is due to open later in 2012 and will be home to The Co-operative Group. NOMA is an acronym for NO(rth) MA(nchester) and 53º is the area's latitude co-ordinate. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOMA,_Manchester for more information about NOMA.

The new flats alongside Angel Meadows, part of the wider NOMA development.

Cottonopolis is bee#14 in the Bee in the City sculpture trail, It is positioned at the side of Angel Street, next to the steps leading to Angel Meadow. The design, created by Leah Pendleton, focuses on Manchester’s industrial heritage and is intended to be “a visual metaphor for the way cotton is woven into the fabric of the city”. The black background alludes to the smoky skies that hung over Manchester in its ‘Cottonopolis’ heyday. The patterns appear to have a woven, tactile texture whilst pools of bold, coloured cotton weave around the shape of the bee.

The Meadow Side development in Manchester.

Looking from Corporation Street towards the construction site for 1, Angel Square, the landmark building which will become the headquarters of the Co-operative Group once completed.

A Metrolink tram, to the north of Manchester Victoria Station.

Seen from the railway into Manchester Victoria station. This is the fully vertical side, whereas the opposite side has a series of terraces at the top.