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Crescent Road, MANCHESTER, M8 9JT

On the right is the Wellfield Medical Centre. The First bus is on route #52 which is a cross-city service from Cheetham Hill to Eccles via Salford Shopping City.

Wellfield Road used to go from Arlington Road to Dobroyd Street but now is cut off in the middle and has become a pair of cul-de-sacs.

Now a national Asian supermarket chain, which supplies halal meat.

Exit (only) from Tesco onto Arlington Road.

This precinct and market hall used to roughly occupy the site where the new Tesco/ Costa are located...I recall a cafe, a newsagent, a men's fashion shop etc.

A fine Edwardian Baroque affair by Henry Price, City Architect, in 1909-11. Grade II listed. It has now been disused for at least fifteen years. Satellite images show it to be roofless which is always a very bad sign.

Cheetham Hill Road is a very long shopping street with a large range of cosmopolitan shops. In the row opposite are Iranian and Polish shops.

This grand old building began as the local library, closed down when new one was built nearby. It then had one or two other uses, before closing completely and falling into decay. It is sad to see a Grade II listed building with buddleias growing out of its roof. Whilst searching for information, I not only discovered it was listed, but also that there was an i-petition to save it (with a miserable 25 signatures) and a campaign on Facebook. Here are a few extracts from the description on the English Heritage listing page: "Henry Price (the City Architect); altered. Red brick and white limestone...Edwardian Baroque style. High single storey over basement, 3 wide bays...projected wings embracing a central entrance lobby with projected porch...high stepped stone parapet...rectangular porch with channelled rustication, a round-headed doorway with voluted keystone and open-pedimented architrave with coupled columns, and semi-spherical roof...pilasters with cartouches lettered "SCOTT" and "MILTON" (left wing) "SHAKESPEARE" and "DICKENS" (right wing)...Basement area protected by wrought-iron railings with limestone piers, geometrical open-work standards, bar railings with attached swags and festoons, and flaming-urn finials."

On Cheetham Hill Road

This is a rebuilt version to replace an earlier one on the site.