IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Redfearn Street, MANCHESTER, M60 0AE
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Redfearn Street, M60 0AE 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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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (2318 Images Found)
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Redfern House, Dantzic Street, Manchester
Distinctive building for the Co-operative Wholesale Society by W.A. Johnson and J.W. Cropper, 1936. Further down the road is its almost-twin sister (Image]). Pevsner says the inspiration is Dutch brick modernism. Of pale-brown brick, with horizontal bands of windows, and a clear affinity with Art Deco in its curves. Service tower on the left. The lettering at the angle is also noteworthy. Grade II listed.
On the right is a sliver of the Co-op's New Century House: Image
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 24 Jul 2011
0.01 miles
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CIS building
The tallest building in Manchester from its opening in 1962 until 2006.
Image: © S Parish
Taken: 27 Feb 2006
0.02 miles
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Co-operative Buildings
Two of the Co-operative's office blocks in Manchester.
Image: © Peter McDermott
Taken: 14 Apr 2013
0.02 miles
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Balloon Street, Manchester
Looking north from the Dantzic Street crossing.
Image: © Dr Neil Clifton
Taken: 18 May 1991
0.02 miles
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Holyoake House, Dantzic Street, Manchester
Jolly blue and cream faience-clad Classical building, by F.E.L. Harris, 1911, for the Co-operative Union. Grade II listed.
A plaque on the corner gives more information about the CU's origins: Image
Behind is a sliver of the CIS Tower (Image]).
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 23 Jun 2011
0.03 miles
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Holyoake House
The co-operative activist George Jacob Holyoake died in 1906 and the Co-operative Movement decided to commemorate him by building a permanent headquarters for the Co-operative Union. The building, designed by F. E. L. Harris, was erected in 1911 on Hanover Street and named Holyoake House. A plaque Image was erected outside the building dedicating the building to Holyoake's memory.
Holyoake House is grade II listed http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-388168-holyoake-house-
Image: © Gerald England
Taken: 28 Nov 2012
0.03 miles
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Plaque to George Jacob Holyoake
On the corner of Holyoake House Image
The text reads:
ERECTED 1911
THE CO-OPERATIVE UNION LIMITED
The Co-operative Union is a Federation of Co-operative Societies in the United Kingdom for the purpose of propagandist and defensive action.
Its object are
1. To establish & organize co-operative societies.
2. To diffuse a knowledge of the principles of co-operation by advice and instruction - literary, legal and commercial.
This building was erected by the voluntary contributions of 794 co-operative societies members of the union to perpetuate the memory of the late George Jacob Holyoake one of the pioneers of co-operation, who for nearly 70 years was a strenuous worker for liberty and reform.
Born 1817, died 1906.
Image: © Gerald England
Taken: 28 Nov 2012
0.03 miles