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Victoria Square, MANCHESTER, M4 5EA

Built by Spalding & Cross for the Manchester Corporation in 1897, replacing slums, the first such housing project and still public housing. Quadrangular with a courtyard and greenery inside. Pevsner picks out the good brickwork, and the decorative touches such as the gables and terracotta details. Grade II listed. Sadly, despite the architects' best efforts, Pevsner reports that "the initiative did not do the slum dwellers any good since they could not afford the rents and had to move to squalid conditions elsewhere."

Anita Street in Ancoats. See also Image

Serafino's Stone was dedicated on the 6th of December 2005 to Serafino De Felice in honour of his tireless devotion to the people and fabric of Ancoats. This part of Ancoats was once known as 'Little Italy' and Serafino De Felice worked for many years to help fellow Italians and to preserve the area's heritage. For more information see http://www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/immig_emig/england/manchester/

Serafino's Stone was dedicated on the 6th of December 2005 to Serafino De Felice in honour of his tireless devotion to the people and fabric of Ancoats. This part of Ancoats was once known as 'Little Italy' and Serafino De Felice worked for many years to help fellow Italians and to preserve the area's heritage. For more information see http://www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/immig_emig/england/manchester/

Manchester's first municipal housing was built in 1889, by Henry Spalding and A.W.Cross and is Grade II listed. It is in red brick with terracotta dressings and slate roofs. There is a square courtyard plan with balcony access inside the courtyard. The listing gives loads of architectural detail, most of which I don't understand. It opened in 1894 his block of flats was opened in 1894 and was the first building of the major re-housing scheme that the Manchester Corporation undertook. The building was intended for 848 people in 237 double tenements and 48 single. The flats had internal bathrooms and the Square had shared laundries with drying facilities in the top rooms of the corner towers - an attempt to rid homes of the damp air from drying clothes and thus reduce bronchial complaints. The property continues to be in local authority ownership and now provides accommodation for senior citizens run by Northwards Housing. One of the residents started a community project - knitting enough scarves to encircle the building! Here volunteers are helping to support the linked scarves. Afterwards they were to be auctioned for charity.

Victoria Square on Oldham Road.

Surely that must be their names, seated outside what are presumably retirement homes in George Leigh Street.

Anita Street in Ancoats.

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The Manchester branch of Wing Yip on the corner of Oldham Road and Thompson Street. According to the company website http://www.wingyip.com/#CompanyHistory "Wing Yip is widely recognised as the UK's leading Oriental grocer with four sites - Birmingham, Manchester, Croydon and Cricklewood." Mr Wing Yip and business partners opened their first Chinese restaurant in Clacton-on-Sea in the 1960s. In the 1970s he and his brothers opened their first specialised Chinese grocery store in Birmingham and then Manchester. Note: Photograph is for record purposes only. The photographer has no connection with the business depicted.