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Oldham Road, MANCHESTER, M4 5FS

View looking up Oldham Road.

Victoria Square on Oldham Road.

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.

Bengal Street in Ancoats.

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."

Demolition site alongside Bengal Street in Ancoats.

The M4nchester Two development in Ancoats.

The 'M4nchester Two' development in Ancoats.

Traditional public house at the corner of Silk Street and Bengal Street.

According to Pubs of Manchester http://pubs-of-manchester.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Shamrock%20-%20Bengal%20Street this quaint little back street pub halfway down Bengal Street (of Bengal Tigers infamy, as detailed in The Gangs of Manchester and the play Angels With Manky Faces) is the last remaining pub within Old Ancoats in an area that once housed an untold number of pubs. Shown as a Wilsons house in 1962 http://www.images.manchester.gov.uk/web/objects/common/webmedia.php?irn=72326 by 1984 it was a Burtonwoods pub and is a Marstons house today [2010]. It was described in the Manchester Guardian in 1862 as "Vault, brewhouse, grocer's shop and dwelling house", belonging to Renshaw & Cardwell's Hulme brewery. As its name suggests, it was an Irish pub, where the Orangemen and Catholics of Ancoats would mix freely. Nowadays it describe's itself http://www.shamrock-irishbar.co.uk/ as a hidden gem on the outskirts of the Northern Quarter with plasma screen showing all live Premiership Matches, a restaurant serving home cooked food and a beer garden. Image