Manchester, Portland Street 1885
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18284
More about this scene
This view was taken from Oxford Street Corner. This street was known as the street of warehouses. Only fifty years earlier, this street had been nothing more than a dirt track with some third-rate shops. The warehouses started transforming the street about 1845, and the businesses we can see here include A & S Henry (Importers), the famous S & J Watts & Co, and Sam Mendel, a rope and twine manufacturer, who lived at Manley Park, Chorlton.
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