View to brick Great Northern Railway Company Warehouse across Great Northern Square, Peter Street, Manchester, UK
The Great Northern Warehouse, built 1885-98, is the former good warehouse of the Great Northern Railway in Manchester, being a transport interchange for goods arriving by rail at the city's Central Railway Station. Nine acres pf streets, back-to-back houses, foundries, hotels, inns, burial grounds and a school were cleared for its building. Inside there were rail lines with five platforms, 25 cranes, wagon turntables and stabling for 80 horses. The warehouse, 81 m (267 ft long) and 66 m (217 ft) wide, is constructed of blue bricks below red bricks with blue brick dressings. Heavy iron lintels lie above the ground floor entrances to the warehouse. The building, fireproofed with a steel frame, is 5-storeys high, with 17 windows on the north and south ends (the north end seen here) and 27 windows on the east and west sides. All four sides have friezes of white bricks reading; 'Great Northern Railway Company's Goods Warehouse'. The warehouse, closed for goods in 1963, lay empty for 50 years, until re-development in 1998 at a cost of £100 million. The building now houses a cinema, casino, restaurant, bowling alley, bar restaurant, fitness gym and multi-storey car-park for 1200 cars. Great Northern Square with a sunken garden Amphitheatre lies in front of the building along Peter Street.
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Location: Great Northern Warehouse, Peter Street at Deansgate, Manchester, UK
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
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