IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Binns Place, MANCHESTER, M4 5BY
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Binns Place, M4 5BY by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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Image Listing (1262 Images Found)
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Brownsfield Mill, Great Ancoats Street, Manchester
Former cotton mill built c1825. L-shaped with a chimney in the angle. It is "unusually complete and well-preserved". Grade II* listed.
Relatively late to the party, but it has now joined the residential-conversion club.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 10 Jul 2016
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Brownsfield Mill, Great Ancoats Street
Photographed from Vantage Quay Bridge. The Rochdale Canal is in the foreground with bridge No. 91 and lock No. 83 beyond. The mill was built in 1825 as a steam powered cotton spinning mill with timber frame construction and an internal beam engine house. It was later used by A V Roe for aircraft construction for a period and in 1924 a triplane was discovered in the roof and is now on display in The Science Museum, London.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 18 Mar 2015
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Rochdale Canal at Great Ancoats Street Bridge, bridge #89
Image: © Ian S
Taken: 1 Mar 2022
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"AVRO" (Brownsfield Mill)
The large brick building behind Brownsfield Lock (lock#83 on the Rochdale Canal) is Brownsfield mill which was a cotton spinning mill built in 1825. As well as producing textiles, this former cotton mill later became one of the earliest aircraft factories in the world, A V Roe building aircraft on the lower floor between 1910 and 1913; something which has been commemorated with a blue plaque on the wall (Image]). https://web.archive.org/web/20180715122245/http://www.verdon-roe.co.uk/avro-saro-factory-sites (AVRO official website (archived))
The mill is a Grade II* listed building (Historic England List Entry Number: 1207994 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1207994 ). It is currently (January 2020) being converted for residential use by developers Urban Splash and is branded as "AVRO" (https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/property/brownsfield-mill-ancoats-avro-apartments-14467852 Manchester Evening News March 2018).
http://manchesterhistory.net/manchester/tours/tour11/area11page28.html - Manchester History Net
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 15 Jan 2020
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AVRO Blue Plaque on Brownsfield Mill
Manchester blue plaque on the side of Brownsfield Mill (Image]).
ALLIOT VERDON ROE
(1877 - 1958)
and
HUMPHREY VERDON ROE
(1879 - 1949)
formed the A.V. Roe & Co (Avro)
aircrafty company on 1st January
1910 and opened their first
workshop here.
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 24 Mar 2015
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Bird garden, Bridge 89, Rochdale Canal, Manchester
Image: © Benjamin Shaw
Taken: 9 Jan 2016
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The Rochdale Canal
Looking towards the Great Ancoats Street bridge from Lock 83.
Image: © Thomas Nugent
Taken: 28 Jan 2013
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Avro blue plaque
On the wall of Brownfield Mill where the company was founded ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro ).
Image: © Thomas Nugent
Taken: 28 Jan 2013
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Rochdale Canal, Bridge#90
This modern footbridge serves the small retail park next to the canal, on the southern side of Great Ancoats Street.
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 7 Feb 2015
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