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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,IMG_4235,Charles House,John William Street,Eccles,Salford,office,block,redevelopment,regeneration,Muse,property,development,town,centre,Manchester,Greater,commercial,building,vacant,demolition,planning,urban,renewal,construction,hoardings,architecture,workspace,offices,August,2026,skyline,change
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3FAP8XY - . Charles House, an office block on John William Street in Eccles, Salford, photographed in August 2026 beside colourful regeneration hoardings and redevelopment works. The mid-to-late twentieth-century commercial building, with its prominent rooftop H sign, forms part of the existing town-centre fabric being reconsidered as Eccles goes through a major programme of renewal. The photograph captures the contrast between an older office block and the temporary graphics advertising change at street level, illustrating the transition from established commercial property to a new development phase. The supplied filename links the wider regeneration plan with developer Muse, placing the building within the context of large-scale proposals for Eccles town centre. This image can support editorial coverage of urban regeneration, office obsolescence, property redevelopment, demolition, mixed-use development, town-centre investment, planning and changing patterns of employment space. It also provides a documentary record of Charles House before any future alteration or removal, useful where the physical appearance of a district is being rapidly transformed and older landmarks may disappear from the streetscape.
Charles House, John William Street, Eccles, Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,IMG_0845,Altrincham Interchange,information,tickets,office,Greater,Manchester,England,UK,passenger,ticket,counter,screens,machines,station,railway,Metrolink,tram,bus,transport,public,customer,service,commuting,facilities,digital,travel,Trafford,interchange
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EMY4EW - Altrincham Interchange information and tickets office in Greater Manchester, England, UK. The staffed or service counter sits beneath a prominent black sign reading Information and tickets, with digital screens, ticket machines and passenger information equipment arranged inside the historic station building. Altrincham Interchange combines rail, Manchester Metrolink tram and bus services and is an important transport hub for Trafford and the wider south Manchester area. The photograph is suitable for editorial coverage of railway ticket offices, passenger information, public transport, integrated transport, rail and tram travel, station facilities, ticket machines, customer service, commuting, Greater Manchester transport and Altrincham. The bright white interior and traditional architectural detailing contrast with modern digital passenger systems, illustrating the mixture of historic station fabric and contemporary transport services found at the interchange.
Altrincham Interchange, Stamford New Road, Altrincham WA14 1EN, Greater Manchester, UK
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Keywords: Gotonysmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,IMG_0833,Southway Housing Trust,offices,Southern Gate,Didsbury,Manchester,England,UK,housing,social,provider,association,affordable,homes,landlord,services,management,community,office,building,car,park,vehicle,registered,public,sector,brick,glass,socialhousing,social housing,WCHG,merge,merger,planned,UKhousing,rent,rents
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EW7BPJ - . Southway Housing Trust offices at Southern Gate in Didsbury, Manchester, England, UK. Photographed on 5 June 2026. The recorded location is Southern Gate, 729 Princess Road, Manchester M20 2LT, England, UK. The modern brick and glass office building is seen from the car park with Southway branding visible on the facade and a branded service vehicle near the entrance. Southway is a community-based housing provider and social enterprise operating in south Manchester, managing thousands of affordable homes. The everyday office and vehicle setting provides a practical view of the operational base of a major Manchester housing provider. The background to affordable housing is that residential architecture is closely tied to planning and social change
Post-war estates, high-rise blocks, gated developments and city-centre apartments reveal assumptions about land values, transport, security and the relationship between private and public space. Within the history of traffic incident, motoring services increasingly expanded from mechanical breakdowns to batteries, tyres, diagnostics and recovery as cars became more electronically complex. Current 2026 context around affordable housing is that housing remains one of the UK's most politically significant issues , with sustained pressure to increase social and affordable supply as well as private housebuilding
Images of estates, new-build sites and apartment schemes are directly relevant to affordability, planning and regeneration. Against the 2026 backdrop for traffic incident, road safety remains a major policy concern , while modern vehicles add sophisticated driver-assistance systems without eliminating collisions or the need for recovery services. Closely associated editorial terms include residential development, flats, housing estate, social housing, property, neighbourhood, housing supply, urban housing, roadside assistance, breakdown van, vehicle recovery, car accident, AA, and vehicle breakdown.
Southern Gate, 729 Princess Road, Manchester M20 2LT, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,doors,entrance,NOMA,Miller Street,Manchester,city,centre,Corporation Street,1960,1960s,architecture,modernist,internationalist,style,office,HQ,headquarters,Grade II listed,listed,heritage,history,historic,commercial,post-war,Wholesale Society,George S Hay,Gordon Tait,architect,Sir John Burnet Tait and Partners,1962,movement,UK,skyline,tallest,corporate lettering,glass,aluminium
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EENGK9 - Entrance to the Co-operative Insurance Society Limited building on Miller Street in Manchester, showing the corporate lettering, glass doors, metal frontage and clean 1960s modernist styling of the former CIS headquarters. The wider CIS Building, also known as CIS Tower, was constructed between 1959 and 1962 for the Co-operative Insurance Society, to designs by George S Hay, chief architect of the Co-operative Wholesale Society, with Gordon Tait of Sir John Burnet, Tait and Partners. Historic England lists the building at Grade II and records that it was designed to consolidate around 2,500 CIS staff who had previously been spread across several Manchester offices. Completed in 1962, the tower became a major post-war Manchester landmark and was, at the time, the tallest office block in the country, symbolising the confidence, scale and social ambition of the co-operative movement in the city. This street-level detail has strong editorial and commercial search value for Manchester architecture, CIS Tower, Co-operative Insurance, Co-op history, insurance headquarters, Miller Street, NOMA, post-war modernism, International Style office design, listed buildings, commercial heritage, 1960s signage, glass entrance doors, corporate lettering, office regeneration, urban conservation and the changing use of large city centre headquarters. The image can illustrate stories about the Co-operative Group, financial services, Manchester business history, architectural preservation, empty offices, redevelopment proposals, twentieth century heritage, modernist walking tours, planning policy, workplace history and northern civic identity. With no people visible, the photograph remains flexible for editorial, property, heritage, architecture, business, archive, website, report, magazine and blog use, while the surviving Co-operative Insurance Society Limited wording gives a clear link to Manchester's co-operative, commercial and modernist past.
Co-operative Insurance Society Limited entrance at the 1960s CIS modernist Building on Miller Street
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,One Angel Square,the,Co-op,CoOp,headquarters,HQ,building,office,in,city,centre,Manchester,255A8985,Co-operative Group,England,UK,modern,curved,glazed,architecture,business,corporate,regeneration,city-centre,development,sustainable,workplace,NOMA
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EKD7P0 - . One Angel Square Co-operative Group headquarters in Manchester city centre, England, UK. Photographed on 30 April 2026. The recorded location is One Angel Square, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK. The large modern curved office building has a distinctive glazed facade and stands prominently within the NOMA regeneration area. The building became a major symbol of investment in the northern part of Manchester city centre and is widely associated with environmentally efficient office design. Seen through pedestrian space, the earlier context is that public squares and courtyards are long-standing stages for markets, ceremonies, protest and everyday movement
Their paving, monuments and surrounding façades reveal how cities organise civic life. For community safety, the historical context is that scottish sheriff courts have a distinctive role within Scotland's separate legal system, handling a wide range of criminal and civil business alongside justice of the peace courts
Public signage and accessibility features reveal how those institutions present themselves to court users. Looking at residential architecture, the longer history is that images of construction and residential redevelopment can become important evidence of neighbourhood change, particularly where industrial land or earlier housing is later replaced by higher-density homes. The 2026 relevance of pedestrian space comes from the fact that well-used squares remain significant to tourism and local identity, while redesign projects often focus on accessibility, shade, planting and flexible event use. For community safety, the 2026 context is that courts and policing remain closely linked to debate about access to justice, case backlogs, community safety, estate modernisation and public-service funding
Photographs of buildings and signs can illustrate the institutional setting without implying details of any individual case.
One Angel Square, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,IMG_9724,Paragon,Altrincham,Trafford,Manchester,sale,property,commercial,office,building,estate,agent,vacant,realestate,investment,sign,advertised,for,Greater,England
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3E5HA54 - Paragon commercial building advertised for sale in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, England, UK. The photograph is a contemporary editorial record of the subject and its surroundings at Altrincham, Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, UK. Visible signage, lettering, architecture, street furniture, transport infrastructure, public art, commercial branding or landscape details are retained where present, giving the image value both as a description of the immediate scene and as a reference for how the place looked at the time of photography. The image shows the Paragon commercial property with a prominent For Sale board, documenting the marketing of office or commercial space in Altrincham. Such photographs provide a useful record of vacancy, investment, commercial property turnover and changes to employment buildings within a prosperous Greater Manchester town centre. The image has wider editorial relevance for local history, heritage, tourism, transport, retail, planning, regeneration, business and social change where those themes apply to the subject. It can support news and feature coverage as well as retrospective comparison if the building, business, artwork, service, route or streetscape is altered, redeveloped, rebranded, closed or otherwise changes in future. The composition also preserves small visual details that are easily lost over time, including materials, signs, logos, road or rail features, shopfront treatment, public-realm design and the relationship of the subject to neighbouring buildings or open space. This makes the photograph useful not only as a straightforward location image but also as a documentary record of everyday urban and cultural life.
Altrincham, Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,255A2680,Homelessness,tents,Lincoln Square,Manchester,city,centre,England,UK,statue,modern,office,buildings,rough,sleeping,housing,crisis,poverty,temporary,shelter,inequality,public,space,welfare,support,services,urban,social,exclusion,accommodation,Andy Burnham,tackling,tackle,homelessness,eradicate,house,street
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EM1WC2 - Homelessness tents in Lincoln Square, Manchester city centre, England, UK, beside a statue and modern office buildings. A cluster of brightly coloured small tents occupies the paved public space around the monument, creating a stark contrast with the polished commercial architecture behind. The photograph provides a strong editorial illustration of rough sleeping, temporary shelter and visible homelessness within one of Britain's largest and wealthiest city centres. It is suitable for coverage of homelessness, rough sleeping, housing crisis, temporary accommodation, poverty, cost-of-living pressures, social exclusion, public space, Manchester housing policy, local government, support services and urban inequality. The tents and prominent civic setting show how housing insecurity can become highly visible in regenerated commercial districts, raising questions about welfare provision, affordable housing, mental health support, outreach services and the use of public spaces. The vivid tent colours make the human impact difficult to overlook against the formal stone and glass surroundings.
Lincoln Square, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,front,office,Liverpool Road,North West,England,UK,upper,Barton St,Manchester,M3 4NN,M3,Campfield Studios Manchester,Campfield Market Hall,Castlefield Manchester,Liverpool Road Manchester,Victorian market hall,industrial heritage building,repurposed industrial building,historic market hall exterior,Manchester city centre,former science and industry building,iron and glass architecture,heritage regeneration Manchester,Castlefield conservation area,Victorian engineering,nineteenth century architecture,historic Manchester buildings,adaptive reuse architecture,cultural venue Manchester,events venue exterior,regeneration project,urban renewal,heritage facade,listed building Manchester,streetscape Manchester,Andy Burnham,mayor
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3CPAXFH - This photograph shows the exterior of Campfield Studios, located on Liverpool Road in the Castlefield district of Manchester city centre. The building is the former Campfield Market Hall, a substantial Victorian iron-and-glass structure dating from the late nineteenth century, designed to support Manchester's role as a global centre of industry, trade, and transport during the industrial revolution.
The hall stands immediately adjacent to the Liverpool Road railway corridor, home to the world's first passenger railway station and later the core site of the Science and Industry Museum. Its architecture reflects classic Victorian engineering, with decorative iron columns, glazed sections, and a symmetrical facade that was originally intended to accommodate covered markets and storage linked to canal and rail traffic in the surrounding area.
After decades of industrial decline and underuse, the building has been carefully restored and repurposed as Campfield Studios, a modern cultural and events venue. The retained historic frontage, signage, and structural details illustrate Manchester's approach to heritage-led regeneration, where former industrial and science buildings are adapted for contemporary uses while preserving their architectural character.
Taken in daylight with light cloud cover, the image captures the building as part of the evolving Manchester streetscape, highlighting both its Victorian origins and its modern identity. Campfield Studios now forms an important part of Castlefield's wider regeneration, sitting alongside museums, canals, offices, and residential developments, and symbolising the city's transition from industrial powerhouse to a centre for culture, leisure, and creative industries.
Campfield Studios, Liverpool Road, Castlefield, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK , M3 4JR
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,redeveloped,entrance,offices,front,office,North West,England,UK,interior,event,ukulele,upper,Barton St,Manchester,M3 4NN,M3,Campfield Studios Manchester,Campfield Market Hall,Castlefield Manchester,Manchester city centre,industrial heritage building,Victorian market hall,former science and industry building,repurposed industrial building,indoor event space,cultural venue Manchester,live music event,community gathering,public hall interior,Manchester regeneration,crowd of people,festival atmosphere,bar area,food stalls,live band performance
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3CPAXHJ - This image shows the interior of Campfield Studios, located on Liverpool Road in the Castlefield area of Manchester city centre. The building forms part of the historic Campfield Market Hall complex, a substantial Victorian iron-and-glass structure originally developed in the late nineteenth century to support Manchester's booming industrial economy. The wider site sits alongside the world-famous Liverpool Road railway buildings, closely linked to the early development of the Science and Industry Museum and Manchester's role as the birthplace of the industrial revolution.
Originally designed as a covered market and storage space serving the surrounding canals, railways, and warehouses, the hall later fell into decline as industrial uses moved on. In recent years it has been sensitively regenerated and reborn as Campfield Studios, a flexible cultural and events venue that blends historic industrial architecture with modern hospitality and performance spaces.
The photograph captures the hall in active use, filled with people attending a live music and social event. Temporary bars, food stalls, and performance equipment sit beneath the exposed iron columns and high roof structure, highlighting the adaptive reuse of the space. The mix of seated and standing visitors reflects the building's modern role as a community hub for markets, concerts, exhibitions, and social gatherings, while the original Victorian engineering remains clearly visible.
Taken during warmer months, with light flooding in through large windows and open entrances, the scene illustrates Manchester's ongoing regeneration of its industrial heritage. Campfield Studios stands as a strong example of how historic science and industry buildings in northern England have been successfully repurposed for contemporary urban life, culture, and leisure, while retaining a strong sense of place and historical continuity.
Campfield Studios, Liverpool Road, Castlefield, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK Postcode
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,redeveloped,entrance,offices,front,office,North West,England,UK,interior,event,ukulele,upper,Barton St,Manchester,M3 4NN,M3,Campfield Studios Manchester,Campfield Market Hall,Castlefield Manchester,Manchester city centre,industrial heritage building,Victorian market hall,former science and industry building,repurposed industrial building,indoor event space,cultural venue Manchester,live music event,community gathering,public hall interior,Manchester regeneration,crowd of people,festival atmosphere,bar area,food stalls,live band performance,buildings
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3CPAXHR - This image shows the interior of Campfield Studios, located on Liverpool Road in the Castlefield area of Manchester city centre. The building forms part of the historic Campfield Market Hall complex, a substantial Victorian iron-and-glass structure originally developed in the late nineteenth century to support Manchester's booming industrial economy. The wider site sits alongside the world-famous Liverpool Road railway buildings, closely linked to the early development of the Science and Industry Museum and Manchester's role as the birthplace of the industrial revolution.
Originally designed as a covered market and storage space serving the surrounding canals, railways, and warehouses, the hall later fell into decline as industrial uses moved on. In recent years it has been sensitively regenerated and reborn as Campfield Studios, a flexible cultural and events venue that blends historic industrial architecture with modern hospitality and performance spaces.
The photograph captures the hall in active use, filled with people attending a live music and social event. Temporary bars, food stalls, and performance equipment sit beneath the exposed iron columns and high roof structure, highlighting the adaptive reuse of the space. The mix of seated and standing visitors reflects the building's modern role as a community hub for markets, concerts, exhibitions, and social gatherings, while the original Victorian engineering remains clearly visible.
Taken during warmer months, with light flooding in through large windows and open entrances, the scene illustrates Manchester's ongoing regeneration of its industrial heritage. Campfield Studios stands as a strong example of how historic science and industry buildings in northern England have been successfully repurposed for contemporary urban life, culture, and leisure, while retaining a strong sense of place and historical continuity.
Campfield Studios, Liverpool Road, Castlefield, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK Postcode
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Keywords: Gotonysmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,This & That Cafe,hot,Manchester,rice,three curries,restaurant,curry house,N4Q,NQ4,3 Soap Street,Northern Quarter,city,centre,M4,M4 1EW,cheap,eats,affordable,lunchtime,homemade,halal,vegetarian,family-run,culture,rice n three,lunch,authentic,Pakistani,South,Asian,student,office,institution,business,established 1984,Shudehill,sign
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3E3P83Y - A hanging sign for This & That Indian Cafe is shown on Soap Street in Manchester's Northern Quarter, advertising rice and three curries and displaying the café's long-standing telephone number. The simple illuminated sign is a recognisable detail of one of Manchester's best-known curry cafés, tucked away off the busier streets of the city centre. This & That describes itself as a family-run business established in 1984 and located at 3 Soap Street, M4 1EW, offering homemade curries prepared with fresh whole spices. The café is strongly associated with Manchester's rice and three stock-photo/gotonysmith-Tradition.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>tradition, a quick, affordable plate of rice served with three curries, historically linked to workers, students, shoppers and office staff looking for filling Indian and Pakistani-style food in the Northern Quarter. The image is commercially useful for stories about Manchester food culture, cheap eats, independent restaurants, hidden gems, curry cafés, halal food, vegetarian options, lunchtime trade, local hospitality and the survival of long-running city-centre eateries. The sign also has value for features on the changing Northern Quarter, where former warehouses, small food businesses, bars, music venues and creative industries have helped shape a distinctive urban identity. The close-up composition, brick buildings, external metal staircase and angled sign give the photograph a gritty back-street feel that suits coverage of authentic local food rather than polished chain restaurant branding. It can also illustrate wider themes around migrant food culture, family-run businesses, affordable dining, Manchester tourism, street-level signage, restaurant heritage and how modest cafés can become part of a city's social memory. As a documentary stock image, it records a small but culturally important Manchester food landmark, where curry, lunch culture, value, tradition and Northern Quarter character meet on Soap Street.
This & That Indian Cafe sign on Soap Street in Manchester's Northern Quarter, home of rice and three
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Keywords: Gotonysmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,255A9770,Manchester,Debenhams,Group,office,building,former,retail,heritage
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3E3P8AD - . Former Debenhams Group office building in Manchester. Photographed on 28 June 2025. The recorded location is Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK. For the story of built environment, it is useful to note that architecture records the priorities of the period in which a structure was designed: materials, ornament, scale and planning reveal technology, status and intended use
Later alterations, extensions and new tenants add further layers, so a single façade can embody several phases of local past. For present-day built environment, 2026 is significant because current planning debates place growing emphasis on housing delivery, retrofit, accessibility and the reuse of brownfield sites
Architectural photographs therefore connect design past with present-day questions about regeneration, sustainability and urban density. Closely connected keywords include architectural detail, historic building, facade, streetscape, urban design, adaptive reuse, heritage building, construction, property, townscape, cityscape, architectural history, building conservation, 255A9770, retail, and heritage. The historical setting for facade is that architecture records the priorities of the period in which a structure was designed: materials, ornament, scale and planning reveal technology, status and intended use
Later alterations, extensions and new tenants add further layers, so a single façade can embody several phases of local history. Seen through adaptive reuse, the earlier context is that buildings are often the most durable evidence of former institutions and businesses
Brickwork, stonework, windows, entrances and signs can survive changes of ownership or use, allowing photography to document architectural style as well as the evolution of a street or district. Its wider context brings together architectural detail, historic building and facade. A further layer of meaning comes from historic building, facade and streetscape.
Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R59WPW - Onward is one of the largest registered providers of social housing based solely in the North West of England, with 35,000 homes across Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Merseyside and Lancashire. Its a not-for-profit organisation regulated by the Regulator of Social Housing.
Onwards purpose is to make a positive difference in the communities we serve by providing homes that people love, in places they are proud of and by working with partners to go beyond housing and invent new ways to do more. They do this by:
Building, managing and maintaining homes for people who are unable to access housing on the open market.
Delivering homes and services that make a real difference to the people living in our neighbourhoods.
Offering customers support and assistance, helping people to overcome the challenges.
Providing specialist housing including sheltered and housing with care, enabling our customers to live independent lives in the community.
Working with partners, voluntary groups and government agencies to provide more homes for people from all backgrounds, meeting the increasing need for housing throughout the North West.
Enterprise Way, Accrington, England, BB5 0FR
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Keywords: Manchester,city,centre,Greater,England,UK,tower,offices,office,block,building,solar,panel,clad,service,skyscraper,on,Co-operative Insurance Society (CIS) by architects Gordon Tait and G.,architect,architects,Co-operative Wholesale Society,CWS,coop,M60,M60 0AL,history,historic,architecture,town,cities,towers,impressive,skyline,cityscape,sky line,towering,PV,panels
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTD30P - The CIS Tower is an office skyscraper on Miller Street in Manchester, England. Designed for the Co-operative Insurance Society (CIS) by architects Gordon Tait and G. S. Hay, the building was completed in 1962 and rises to 118 m (387 feet) in height. As of 2022, the Grade II listed building is Manchester's 10th-tallest building and the second-tallest office building in the United Kingdom outside London after City Tower. The tower remained as built for over 40 years, until maintenance issues on the service tower required an extensive renovation, which included covering its façade in photovoltaic panels.
The tower is situated on Miller Street, which forms the Manchester Inner Ring Road, and stands adjacent to New Century House, a high-rise office building also designed by Gordon Tait and G. S. Hay and constructed concurrently for the CIS's parent company, the Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS)
The office tower building rises above a five-storey podium block. Each of the podium floors is 75 m × 55 m (246 ft × 180 ft), providing 4,125 m2 (44,400 sq ft) floor space per storey. Each office floor in the tower is 18 m × 44 m (59 ft × 144 ft), creating 727 m2 (7,830 sq ft) floor space per storey. The tower element consists of the steel-framed main office building and a windowless reinforced concrete service tower. The service tower rises higher than the main office block and houses lifts and stairwells.
The building has a symmetrical plan, with the main tower rising up from the north-eastern end of the podium block and projecting at the front over the first two floors and the main entrance. The service tower is attached to the centre of the main tower's south-west side, forming a squat T-shape. In total, the building has 388,000 sq ft (36,000 m2) of floor area, with clear open spaces on the office floors.
Miller St, Manchester, England, UK, M60 0AL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JC615M - Pets at Home is a British pet supplies retailer selling pet products including food, toys, bedding, medication, accessories and pets. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
The first store was opened in Chester in 1991, by Anthony Preston.
In December 1999, Pets at Home acquired Petsmart UK,bringing a chain of 140 stores under Pets at Home branding.
Pets at Home was sold to Bridgepoint Capital for £230 million in July 2004.
In November 2007, the 200th store, Barnstaple, opened. On 27 January 2010, Pets at Home was sold by Bridgepoint Capital, to United States-based investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) for around £955 million.
The 17 September 2012 episode of BBC consumer affairs television programme Watchdog included a report on animal and fish welfare conditions at Pets at Home. The programme had visited eight stores, as part of an investigation which included Mike Jessop, former president of the Small Animal Veterinary Association. The programme discovered evidence of mistreatment of small animals, dead fish being left to rot and be eaten in tanks, and sick small animals up for sale. That month, Pets at Home issued a full response to the claims made in the broadcast. The BBC trust published a clarification on 7 June 2016 that the website included a version of the item made before Pets at Home's points in reply to criticisms were incorporated. In response to the complaint the programme-makers acknowledged that this represented a serious breach of the BBC's editorial standards and replaced the item with a version which reflected Pets at Home's points.
In March 2014, the company was the subject of an initial public offering.
In January 2018, KKR sold its remaining 12.3% stake in Pets at Home
Unit 2, Latchford House, Thelwall Ln, Latchford East, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 1LW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JC40XX - Station House is a substantial postwar office building on Stamford New Road in the centre of Altrincham, Trafford, Greater Manchester. Although its strong horizontal lines and extensive bands of tinted glazing may suggest an early 1980s development, the landmark building dates from approximately 1966 and reached its sixtieth year in 2026. This view shows its large red-brick elevations, pale concrete or rendered structural bands, green glazed windows and adjoining wings beneath a partly cloudy sky.
Owned and operated by Bruntwood, Station House occupies a prominent position directly opposite Altrincham Interchange, providing immediate access to Manchester Metrolink, national rail services and local bus routes. Its location beside the transport hub has helped establish the building as one of the town's longest-standing commercial and business addresses. The offices are also within walking distance of Altrincham's shops, cafés, restaurants, market and other town-centre facilities.
The multi-storey complex was designed around broad office floorplates and long rows of windows intended to provide natural light across its internal workspace. Its scale, repetitive fenestration and functional materials reflect the confident modern commercial architecture used for many British office developments during the 1960s.
Station House has subsequently undergone phased investment and refurbishment rather than demolition. Bruntwood has modernised office floors, serviced suites, reception and communal areas, toilets, bicycle storage and other workplace facilities. Further renovation of the first and sixth floors was completed as the building approached its sixtieth anniversary. The refurbished development now provides leased offices, flexible workspace, coworking facilities and meeting rooms while retaining the recognisable structure and external form of the original mid-century building.
The photograph also records the changing built environment around Altrincham
Station House Bruntwood office block, Stamford New Rd, Altrincham, Trafford, Greater Manchester, Eng
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BCTGRG - Stockport is a large, major town in Greater Manchester, England, 7 miles (11 km) south-east of Manchester city centre, where the River Goyt and Tame merge to create the River Mersey, and the largest in the metropolitan borough of the same name.
Historically, most of the town was in Cheshire, but the area to the north of the Mersey was in Lancashire. Stockport in the 16th century was a small town entirely on the south bank of the Mersey, and known for the cultivation of hemp and manufacture of rope. In the 18th century the town had one of the first mechanised silk factories in the British Isles. However, Stockport's predominant industries of the 19th century were the cotton and allied industries. Stockport was also at the centre of the country's hatting industry, which by 1884 was exporting more than six million hats a year
the last hat works in Stockport closed in 1997.
Dominating the western approaches to the town is the Stockport Viaduct. Built in 1840, the viaduct's 27 brick arches carry the mainline railways from Manchester to Birmingham and London over the River Mersey. This structure featured as the background in many paintings by L. S. Lowry.
Fred Perry House, Edward St, Stockport, England, UK, SK1 3UR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BCTGY9 - William Robinson purchased the Unicorn Inn from Samuel Hole on 29 September 1838. His eldest son George brewed the first Robinsons Ale there in 1849.
In 1859, Frederic Robinson took over from George and bought a warehouse to the rear of the inn to expand brewing capacity. As a result, Robinsons ale became available at pubs around the Stockport area. To control the quality of ale sold, Frederic began to purchase public houses. From 1878 until his death in 1890, Frederic established twelve pubs which exclusively served his ale. This was the beginning of what was to become an estate of over 300 pubs across the North West of England and North Wales.
The Unicorn Brewery still rests on the foundations of the public house on Lower Hillgate in Stockport.
The brewery continues to be run by the fifth and sixth generations of the Robinson family. The company took over Hartley's Brewery in Ulverston in 1982, closing it and transferring the brewing of Hartley's beers to Stockport in 1991. Robinsons have acquired a number of other breweries over the years, including John Heginbotham, Stalybridge (1915)
T. Schofield & Son, Ashton under Lyne (1926)
Kays Atlas Brewery, Ardwick (1929) and Bell & Co, Stockport (1949).
The brewery owns many historic pubs, including the New Hall Inn in Bowness on Windermere.
Lower Hillgate, Stockport,Greater Manchester, Cheshire, England, UK, SK1 1JJ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BCTGYD - William Robinson purchased the Unicorn Inn from Samuel Hole on 29 September 1838. His eldest son George brewed the first Robinsons Ale there in 1849.
In 1859, Frederic Robinson took over from George and bought a warehouse to the rear of the inn to expand brewing capacity. As a result, Robinsons ale became available at pubs around the Stockport area. To control the quality of ale sold, Frederic began to purchase public houses. From 1878 until his death in 1890, Frederic established twelve pubs which exclusively served his ale. This was the beginning of what was to become an estate of over 300 pubs across the North West of England and North Wales.
The Unicorn Brewery still rests on the foundations of the public house on Lower Hillgate in Stockport.
The brewery continues to be run by the fifth and sixth generations of the Robinson family. The company took over Hartley's Brewery in Ulverston in 1982, closing it and transferring the brewing of Hartley's beers to Stockport in 1991. Robinsons have acquired a number of other breweries over the years, including John Heginbotham, Stalybridge (1915)
T. Schofield & Son, Ashton under Lyne (1926)
Kays Atlas Brewery, Ardwick (1929) and Bell & Co, Stockport (1949).
The brewery owns many historic pubs, including the New Hall Inn in Bowness on Windermere.
Lower Hillgate, Stockport,Greater Manchester, Cheshire, England, UK, SK1 1JJ
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Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUk,GoTonySmith,Manchester,Cheshire,England,UK,town,office,north west England,SK1,Robinson,Offices,beer,bitter,CAMRA,real ale,cask,ale,Unicorn,red brick,Brewery offices,casking,kegging,bottling,bottling services,Victorian,architecture,industry,industrial,Lower Hillgate,F.Robinson Ltd,North West Brewery,Apsley Street,Apsley St,pubs,pub,pub estate,packaging centre
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BCTGYK - William Robinson purchased the Unicorn Inn from Samuel Hole on 29 September 1838. His eldest son George brewed the first Robinsons Ale there in 1849.
In 1859, Frederic Robinson took over from George and bought a warehouse to the rear of the inn to expand brewing capacity. As a result, Robinsons ale became available at pubs around the Stockport area. To control the quality of ale sold, Frederic began to purchase public houses. From 1878 until his death in 1890, Frederic established twelve pubs which exclusively served his ale. This was the beginning of what was to become an estate of over 300 pubs across the North West of England and North Wales.
The Unicorn Brewery still rests on the foundations of the public house on Lower Hillgate in Stockport.
The brewery continues to be run by the fifth and sixth generations of the Robinson family. The company took over Hartley's Brewery in Ulverston in 1982, closing it and transferring the brewing of Hartley's beers to Stockport in 1991. Robinsons have acquired a number of other breweries over the years, including John Heginbotham, Stalybridge (1915)
T. Schofield & Son, Ashton under Lyne (1926)
Kays Atlas Brewery, Ardwick (1929) and Bell & Co, Stockport (1949).
The brewery owns many historic pubs, including the New Hall Inn in Bowness on Windermere.
Lower Hillgate, Stockport,Greater Manchester, Cheshire, England, UK, SK1 1JJ
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Keywords: HotpixUK,@HotpixUk,GoTonySmith,Manchester,Cheshire,England,UK,town,office,north west England,SK1,Robinson,Offices,beer,bitter,CAMRA,real ale,cask,ale,Unicorn,red brick,Brewery offices,casking,kegging,bottling,bottling services,Victorian,architecture,industry,industrial,Lower Hillgate,F.Robinson Ltd,North West Brewery,Apsley Street,Apsley St,pubs,pub,pub estate,packaging centre,Campaign for Real Ale
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BCTH2D - William Robinson purchased the Unicorn Inn from Samuel Hole on 29 September 1838. His eldest son George brewed the first Robinsons Ale there in 1849.
In 1859, Frederic Robinson took over from George and bought a warehouse to the rear of the inn to expand brewing capacity. As a result, Robinsons ale became available at pubs around the Stockport area. To control the quality of ale sold, Frederic began to purchase public houses. From 1878 until his death in 1890, Frederic established twelve pubs which exclusively served his ale. This was the beginning of what was to become an estate of over 300 pubs across the North West of England and North Wales.
The Unicorn Brewery still rests on the foundations of the public house on Lower Hillgate in Stockport.
The brewery continues to be run by the fifth and sixth generations of the Robinson family. The company took over Hartley's Brewery in Ulverston in 1982, closing it and transferring the brewing of Hartley's beers to Stockport in 1991. Robinsons have acquired a number of other breweries over the years, including John Heginbotham, Stalybridge (1915)
T. Schofield & Son, Ashton under Lyne (1926)
Kays Atlas Brewery, Ardwick (1929) and Bell & Co, Stockport (1949).
The brewery owns many historic pubs, including the New Hall Inn in Bowness on Windermere.
Lower Hillgate, Stockport,Greater Manchester, Cheshire, England, UK, SK1 1JJ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RPGEEK - Deansgate is a main road (part of the A56) through Manchester city centre, England. It runs roughly north“south in a near straight route through the western part of the city centre and is the longest road in the city centre at over one mile long.
Deansgate is one of the city's oldest thoroughfares. In Roman times its route passed close to the Roman fort of Mamucium and led from the River Medlock where there was a ford and the road to Deva (Chester). Along its length were several civilian buildings and a mansio in the vicinity of the Hilton Hotel. Part of it was called Aldport Lane from Saxon times. (Aldport was the Saxon name for Castlefield.) Until the 1730s the area was rural but became built up after the development of a quay on the river.
The road is named after the lost River Dene, which may have flowed along the Hanging Ditch connecting the River Irk to the River Irwell, at the street's northern end. (Gate derives from the Norse gata, meaning way).
By the late 19th century Deansgate was an area of varied uses: its northern end had shopping and substantial office buildings while further south were slums and a working class area around St John's Church (St John Street remaining upper middle class). The Wood Street Mission began to address the social problems in 1869 and its work continues in a very different form. From Peter Street southwards the eastern side was dominated by the viaducts of the Great Northern and Manchester South Junction Railways, while the Rochdale Canal crossed below Deansgate to connect with the other waterways beyond. In the late 20th century Deansgate was home to the head office of the Manchester Evening News newspaper, now replaced by part of the Spinningfields development.
Deansgate, Manchester, England, UK, M3 4LQ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RPGEFB - M Nairn & Co Ltd were the firm of Michael Nairn, specialising in floor-cloths, power looms and linoleum.
And according to that excellent site Grace's Guide to British Industrial History at the 1862 Exhibition in London and the 1867 Paris Exhibition Nairns Floorcloth came into its own and won the prizes.
In 1870 Nairn and Co built a six-storey factory in Kirkcaldy and by 1877 with the introduction of linoleum, Kirkcaldy soon became the largest producer of the new floorcovering in the world.
In the 1920s the family joined forces with a supplier in Erie, Pennsylvania, which manufactured a three-foot wide simulated wood grain product used to border area rugs and linoleum.
This product was known as Congoleum, because the asphalt materials used to make it came from the Belgian Congo in Africa.
The new company called itself Congoleum-Nairn.
Congoleum-Nairn continued to sell Congoleum Gold Seal Rugs and Nairn linoleum through the late 1930's, until its researchers started experimenting with a new material called vinyl.
However, further research into developing vinyl flooring was interrupted when World War II began.
Following the war, the company continued to grow in the rapidly expanding housing market of that period.
2008 Forbo-Nairn is now the UK's only linoleum manufacturer. Forbo-Nairn have their own website.
Canal St, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, M1 3HN
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RPGEK9 - . A close documentary record depicts a moment within 17 Oak St, Manchester, UK, M4 5JD, in a view made during 2019. The supplied image information identifies Fish & Poultry, F.Hodgkinson Sales office, Manchester Craft Village, Oak Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester, Lancashire, UK, M4 5JD. Other closely connected aspects of the subject are everyday Britain, changing Britain, local identity, place and memory, social context, modern history, community life, public realm, documentary photography, documentary record, place-based history, and cultural landscape. In the mid-2020s, regional identity is increasingly discussed through shifts in local identity and the passage of time, with attention turning to stronger archival comparison. The date and location give the photograph archival strength: future views of 17 Oak St, Manchester, UK, M4 5JD may show different businesses, branding, services, architecture, traffic patterns or redevelopment, allowing clear before-and-after comparison. The view also records themes involving visual record, regional identity, everyday infrastructure, local character, contemporary social history, urban and rural change. The scene is further associated with Manchester City Centre, Fish and Poultry, Fresh Fish, Hodgkinson Fresh Fish. Its context additionally embraces social landscape, and community environment. Current debate around regional identity often combines shifts in local identity, the passage of time and the practical challenge of a clearer record of local change. The combination preserved here provides evidence of movement through the area, planning and redevelopment, historic fabric, everyday services, and social change at this precise location. As the location changes, the frame remains a reference for architecture and streetscape, public access, ownership or occupation, transport patterns, and neighbourhood identity within the surrounding area.
17 Oak St, Manchester, UK, M4 5JD
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RPGEMY - . A detailed visual record documents the character of 35-39 Withy Grove, Manchester, NW England, United Kingdom ,M4 2BJ, in a photograph originating in 2019. The source caption identifies Withy Grove Stores, Office Equipment,Shude Hill, Manchester City Centre, Lancashire, North West England, UK, M4 2BJ. The wider setting includes independent retail, local trading, retail decline and renewal, consumer retail, heritage asset, chain-store economy, architectural heritage, period property, architectural detail, shopfront economy, adaptive reuse, and bricks-and-mortar retail. For present-day editorial use, physical shops can also illustrate debates about brand consolidation and shifts in leisure spending, particularly where these affect mixed-use town centres. Modern coverage of period streetscapes frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of redevelopment pressure, planning control and heritage-led regeneration. Documentary value is strengthened by the precise setting at 35-39 Withy Grove, Manchester, NW England, United Kingdom ,M4 2BJ, where even ordinary details of frontage, equipment, signs, traffic or public activity may disappear as the area evolves. The surrounding context also touches on architectural character, historic townscape, historic fabric, shopping district, heritage streetscape, urban conservation. Associated details include shop, red, Victorian, Shudehill. The scene also carries the language of traditional building, conservation architecture, commercial streetscape, historic environment, built heritage, town-centre trading, retail property, townscape identity, period architecture, and city-centre economy. In the mid-2020s, high-street retail is increasingly discussed through shifts in leisure spending and online shopping, with attention turning to heritage-led regeneration. The view of 35-39 Withy Grove, Manchester, NW England, United Kingdom ,M4 2BJ also preserves another layer of local identity and period change.
35-39 Withy Grove, Manchester, NW England, United Kingdom ,M4 2BJ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RPGEP9 - . An editorial view depicts the visible identity of Exchange Square, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1BD, as photographed in 2019. The location is represented through Manchester Arndale Shopping Centre, Exchange Square entrance / High St, Manchester City Centre, North West England, UK, M3 1BD. The scene also brings together commercial streetscape, townscape identity, heritage asset, historic built environment, conservation architecture, shopping district, historic fabric, local trading, built heritage, commercial frontage, urban fabric, and heritage streetscape. Current debate around consumer spending often combines operating costs, hybrid working and the practical challenge of stronger local footfall. In the mid-2020s, traditional structures is increasingly discussed through energy retrofit and planning control, with attention turning to preserving local character. Documentary value is strengthened by the precise setting at Exchange Square, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1BD, where even ordinary details of frontage, equipment, signs, traffic or public activity may disappear as the area evolves. The broader context includes architectural detail, local landmark, period architecture, shopfront economy, traditional building, city-centre economy. The record also refers to Arndale Centre, Manchester Arndale Centre, shops, retail, traditional shopping centre, building. Other relevant facets include consumer retail, storefront culture, retail vacancy, independent retail, urban conservation, period property, bricks-and-mortar retail, retail decline and renewal, architectural character, and urban commerce. The wider contemporary story of commercial property now includes shifts in leisure spending alongside hybrid working, while policy and investment increasingly consider adaptable commercial space. The frame further records details of public use as a historical reference. The frame further records details of public use as a historical reference.
Exchange Square, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1BD
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Keywords: Manchester,City Centre,city,NQ,NQ4,Northern Quarter,North West,England,UK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,buildings,streets,Piccadilly,Station,Railway Station,Rail,Terminal,Manchester Piccadilly,Manchester Piccadilly Station,Network Rail,NetworkRail,Entrance,door,doorway,gate,London Road,North West England,M1 2QF,signs,historic sign,historic,Victorian,frontage,M1,office,offices
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RF7M0W - . An editorial view captures the character of the recorded location, in a photograph originating in 2019. The frame is associated with Shipping and Cartage historic sign on frontage of Piccadilly Railway station, London Road, Manchester, North West England, UK, M1 2QF. Further features of the subject include traditional building, rail modernisation, period architecture, heritage asset, integrated transport, road connectivity, transport planning, commuter transport, local transport, rail heritage, passenger railway, and conservation interest. Current debate around integrated public transport often combines reliability, ticketing reform and the practical challenge of renewed station districts. In the mid-2020s, place and memory is increasingly discussed through new technology and business turnover, with attention turning to before-and-after study. For present-day editorial use, traditional structures can also illustrate debates about redevelopment pressure and energy retrofit, particularly where these affect heritage-led regeneration. Documentary value is strengthened by the precise setting at the recorded location, where even ordinary details of frontage, equipment, signs, traffic or public activity may disappear as the area evolves, specifically in relation to Shipping and Cartage historic sign on frontage of Piccadilly Railway station. Beyond the immediate subject, the setting involves road safety, motorway travel, period property, architectural character, mass transit, train travel. The scene also carries the language of roadside environment, sustainable mobility, strategic road network, intercity travel, urban fabric, public transport network, urban mobility, rail transport, vehicle access, and rail corridor. That gives this view of the recorded location continuing value for local history, retrospective reporting and visual comparison, specifically in relation to Shipping and Cartage historic sign on frontage of Piccadilly Railway station.
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Keywords: Manchester City Centre,Manchester,City Centre,city,NQ,NQ4,Northern Quarter,North West,England,UK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,buildings,streets,EU,Polish,Workers,Immigrants,Portland St,Portland Street,Entrance,door,office,end of,EU Referendum,Polish immigrant,immigrants,immigrant,M1 3LD,M1,passports,visa,low wages,benefits,UK workers,passport control,immigration
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RF7M5A - . A close documentary record shows the social and built context of 51 Portland Street, Manchester, UK,M1 3LD, as recorded during 2019. The frame is associated with Consulate General office of the republic of Poland, 51 Portland Street, Manchester, UK,M1 3LD. Other aspects of the setting include social context, local identity, documentary photography, place-based history, regional identity, local character, visual record, urban and rural change, modern history, documentary record, place and memory, and community life. In the mid-2020s, community change is increasingly discussed through shifts in local identity and redevelopment, with attention turning to before-and-after study. The photograph fixes 51 Portland Street, Manchester, UK,M1 3LD at one identifiable stage in its history, providing a reference against which later refurbishment, closure, demolition, conversion, new ownership or altered public use can be assessed. The resulting scene connects with cultural landscape, everyday infrastructure, contemporary social history, everyday Britain, changing Britain, community environment. The scene is further associated with visas, passport, Eastern Europe, Freedom of Movement, Polish Workers, Polish Consulate. Further aspects present in the subject include public realm, and social landscape. Current debate around place and memory often combines redevelopment, altered public space and the practical challenge of a clearer record of local change. In historical comparison, the image can help trace local character, the appearance of the built environment, period design, changes of use, and public activity as part of the area's longer social history. The lasting documentary value lies in its record of commercial identity, signage and branding, community life, local continuity, and physical infrastructure without relying on a generic or reconstructed view. Details around 51 Portland Street, Manchester, UK,M1 3LD strengthen its value as a dated record of the place.
51 Portland Street, Manchester, UK,M1 3LD
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Keywords: Manchester,city,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,North West England,UK,England,Big,Issue,North,office,Tib,St,Street,Tib street,The Independent,paper,magazine,number,1056041,M4 1LR,M4,Editor Kevin Gopal,helping,social business,John Bird,Gordon Roddick,The Big Issue Foundation,Big Issue Foundation,sales,selling,vendor,vulnerably housed,marginalised,addressing issues,poverty,beg,Deprevation,Andy Burnham
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RFF69J - The Big Issue is a street newspaper founded by John Bird and Gordon Roddick in September 1991 and published in four continents. The Big Issue is one of the UK's leading social businesses and exists to offer homeless people, or individuals at risk of homelessness, the opportunity to earn a legitimate income, thereby helping them to reintegrate into mainstream society. It is the world's most widely circulated street newspaper
In 1995, The Big Issue Foundation was founded to offer additional support and advice to vendors around issues such as housing, health, personal finance and addiction.
In 2001, the magazine sold nearly 300,000 copies per week. Between 2007 and 2011, the circulation of The Big Issue declined from 167,000 to less than 125,000. Competition between vendors also increased at this time. In January 2012, the magazine was relaunched, with an increased focus on campaigning and political journalism. New columnists were added, including the Premier League footballer Joey Barton, Rachel Johnson, Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park and Samira Ahmed. The cover price was increased.
In 2016, The Big Issue celebrated surpassing 200 million magazine sales.
To become a vendor, one must be homeless or almost homeless, vulnerably housed or marginalised in some way. The Big Issue recognises, however, that for many people, being housed is only the first stage in getting off the streets
therefore, The Big Issue Foundation exists to support vendors in gaining control of their lives by tackling the various issues which lead to homelessness.
116 Tib St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1LR
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,North West England,manchester,NQ4,Northern Quarter,Manchester,City Centre,Company,Co,Ltd,Limited,Manchester City Centre,M4,Company Limited,green tiles,tiles,green,door,doorway,entrance,historic,factory,manufacturing,Greater Manchester County Records office,Greater Manchester,County Records office,GMC,Records,office,artdeco,tiled entrance,art-deco tiles,tile,Abandoned Factory,decline,recession
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RG98K5 - . This contextual photograph depicts the social and built context of Marshall St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 5FU, in a 2019 record. The scene is specifically associated with Marsden Harcombe Company Limited, Marshall St, Manchester, City Centre, North West England, UK, M4 5FU. The scene also brings together urban conservation, heritage streetscape, traditional building, built heritage, conservation architecture, local landmark, period architecture, conservation interest, townscape identity, historic townscape, period property, and urban fabric. Modern coverage of period streetscapes frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of maintenance cost, adaptive reuse and preserving local character. Small period details preserved at Marshall St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 5FU may become historically important as commercial occupants, public services, infrastructure and the built environment change, making the image useful for retrospective editorial coverage. The surrounding context also touches on architectural detail, architectural character, historic fabric, historic environment, heritage asset, historic built environment. Further recorded details include Manchester Northern quarter, Marshall Street, art-deco tiled entrance, art-deco. A more expansive reading adds , and architectural heritage. For present-day editorial use, heritage assets can also illustrate debates about maintenance cost and conservation of original fabric, particularly where these affect keeping older buildings useful. As the location changes, the frame remains a reference for changes of use, the appearance of the built environment, period design, local character, and public activity at this precise location. In historical comparison, the image can help trace physical infrastructure, signage and branding, local continuity, commercial identity, and community life within the surrounding area.
Marshall St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 5FU
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,North West England,Manchester,office,offices,M2 3HY,Charlotte Street,entrance,door,doorway,Thomas Harrison,Sadie Massey Award,Sadie Massey,literary prizes,literary prize,Greek Revival building,Greek Revival,loggia square window,loggia,1806,57,Mosley St,M2,founded,information,history,historic,the,Portico,independent,subscription library,designed,in the,Greek Revival style
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RG98MF - The Portico Library, The Portico or Portico Library and Gallery on Mosley Street, Manchester, is an independent subscription library designed in the Greek Revival style by Thomas Harrison of Chester and built between 1802 and 1806. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade II* listed building, having been designated on 25 February 1952, and has been described as the most refined little building in Manchester.
The library was established as a result of a meeting of Manchester businessmen in 1802 which resolved to found an institute uniting the advantages of a newsroom and a library. A visit by four of the men to the Athenaeum in Liverpool inspired them to achieve a similar institution in Manchester. Money was raised through 400 subscriptions from Manchester men and the library opened in 1806.
The library, mainly focused on 19th-century literature, was designed by Thomas Harrison, architect of Liverpool's Lyceum and built by one of the founders, David Bellhouse. Its first secretary, Peter Mark Roget, began his thesaurus here.
Today the ground floor is tenanted by The Bank, a public house that takes its name from the Bank of Athens that leased the property in 1921. The library occupies what became the first floor with its entrance on Charlotte Street.
The library, Harrison's only surviving building, was the first Greek Revival building in the city. Its interior was inspired by John Soane.[1] The library has a rectangular plan and is constructed in sandstone ashlar on a corner site at 57 Mosley Street. It has two storeys and a basement and roof space. Its facade on Mosley Street has a three-bay pedimented loggia with four Ionic columns set slightly forward and steps between the columns. Under the loggia are two entrance doors and three square windows at first floor level.
The Charlotte Street facade has an entrance into the loggia with a square window above and another on the first floor.
57 Mosley St, Manchester , North West England, UK, M2 3HY
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,North West England,Manchester,office,offices,Exhibition,2018,2019,M2,documentary photographers,documentary photographer,documentary,photographer,Martin,Parr,Print,prints,intro,introduction,M2 3JL,Love Cubes,game,Love Cubes Game,Martin Parr Love Cubes Game,Martin Parr Love,lovers,lane,cube,cubes,exhibition,exhibitions,Return To Manchester,Magnum Photos,Magnum
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RG98MN - Martin Parr (born 23 May 1952) is a British documentary photographer, photojournalist and photobook collector. He is known for his photographic projects that take an intimate, satirical and anthropological look at aspects of modern life, in particular documenting the social classes of England, and more broadly the wealth of the Western world.
Parr studied photography at Manchester Polytechnic from 1970 to 1972 with contemporaries Daniel Meadows and Brian Griffin.[12]:24 Parr and Meadows collaborated on various projects, including working at Butlin's as roving photographers. They were part of a new wave of documentary photographers, a loose British grouping, which, though it never gave itself a title have become variously known as 'the Young British Photographers', 'Independent Photographers' and the 'New British Photography
His major projects have been rural communities (1975“82), The Last Resort (1983“85), The Cost of Living (1987“89), Small World (1987“94) and Common Sense (1995“99).
Since 1994, Parr has been a member of Magnum Photos. He has had around 40 solo photobooks published, and has featured in around 80 exhibitions worldwide “ including the international touring exhibition ParrWorld, and a retrospective at the Barbican Arts Centre, London, in 2002.
The Martin Parr Foundation, founded in 2014, opened premises in his hometown of Bristol in 2017. It houses his own archive, his collection of British and Irish photography by other photographers, and a gallery.
Mosley St, Manchester, England, UK, M2 3JL
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,North West England,Manchester,office,offices,Exhibition,2018,2019,M2,Love Cubes,Martin Parr Love Cubes,Game,Love Cubes Game,documentary photographers,documentary photographer,documentary,photographer,Martin,Parr,Print,prints,love cubes,love cubes game,Martin Parr Love Cubes game,game,A game for one or more persons,photos,cube,cubes,box,exhibit,Twenty-seven cards in a box with a booklet,27 cards,Twentyseven cards,in a,booklet
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RG98MP - Martin Parr (born 23 May 1952) is a British documentary photographer, photojournalist and photobook collector. He is known for his photographic projects that take an intimate, satirical and anthropological look at aspects of modern life, in particular documenting the social classes of England, and more broadly the wealth of the Western world.
Parr studied photography at Manchester Polytechnic from 1970 to 1972 with contemporaries Daniel Meadows and Brian Griffin.[12]:24 Parr and Meadows collaborated on various projects, including working at Butlin's as roving photographers. They were part of a new wave of documentary photographers, a loose British grouping, which, though it never gave itself a title have become variously known as 'the Young British Photographers', 'Independent Photographers' and the 'New British Photography
His major projects have been rural communities (1975“82), The Last Resort (1983“85), The Cost of Living (1987“89), Small World (1987“94) and Common Sense (1995“99).
Since 1994, Parr has been a member of Magnum Photos. He has had around 40 solo photobooks published, and has featured in around 80 exhibitions worldwide “ including the international touring exhibition ParrWorld, and a retrospective at the Barbican Arts Centre, London, in 2002.
The Martin Parr Foundation, founded in 2014, opened premises in his hometown of Bristol in 2017. It houses his own archive, his collection of British and Irish photography by other photographers, and a gallery.
Mosley St, Manchester, UK, M2 3JL
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,North West England,Manchester,office,offices,Exhibition,2018,2019,M2,documentary photographers,documentary photographer,documentary,photographer,Martin,Parr,Print,prints,deckchair,deck chair,deck,chair,deckchair art,deckchair printing,exhibition,exhibitions,Return To Manchester,Magnum Photos,Magnum,sitting,setup,set up,item,exhibit
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RG98MY - Martin Parr (born 23 May 1952) is a British documentary photographer, photojournalist and photobook collector. He is known for his photographic projects that take an intimate, satirical and anthropological look at aspects of modern life, in particular documenting the social classes of England, and more broadly the wealth of the Western world.
Parr studied photography at Manchester Polytechnic from 1970 to 1972 with contemporaries Daniel Meadows and Brian Griffin.[12]:24 Parr and Meadows collaborated on various projects, including working at Butlin's as roving photographers. They were part of a new wave of documentary photographers, a loose British grouping, which, though it never gave itself a title have become variously known as 'the Young British Photographers', 'Independent Photographers' and the 'New British Photography
His major projects have been rural communities (1975“82), The Last Resort (1983“85), The Cost of Living (1987“89), Small World (1987“94) and Common Sense (1995“99).
Since 1994, Parr has been a member of Magnum Photos. He has had around 40 solo photobooks published, and has featured in around 80 exhibitions worldwide “ including the international touring exhibition ParrWorld, and a retrospective at the Barbican Arts Centre, London, in 2002.
The Martin Parr Foundation, founded in 2014, opened premises in his hometown of Bristol in 2017. It houses his own archive, his collection of British and Irish photography by other photographers, and a gallery.
Mosley St, Manchester, England, UK, M2 3JL
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,North West England,Manchester,City Centre,office,offices,Oxford rd,Office,Grade II listed,listed,listed building,Insurance,hotel,building,Victorian,Refuge Building,Principal Hotel,Refuge Friend in Deed Life Assurance and Sick Fund Friendly,central Manchester,M60 7HA,M60,Lancashire,Commerce,business,company,leisure,dining,rooms,hotels,Landmark,Landmark Hotel,insurance,Refuge Insurance,Clock Tower,Clock Tower Entrance gate,clocktower
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RG98Y8 - The Refuge Assurance Company Ltd. was a life insurance and pensions company based in England. It was founded by James Proctor and George Robins in Dukinfield, Cheshire in 1858. The company was originally known by the unwieldy name of the Refuge Friend in Deed Life Assurance and Sick Fund Friendly Society.
From 1895 until 1987, its head office was the magnificent Grade II* listed, Refuge Assurance Building on Oxford Street in central Manchester, now used as the Principal Hotel. In 1987, the company decided to move out of the city centre to new, purpose-built, offices in the grounds of Fulshaw Hall in Wilmslow, around 12 miles south of the old Refuge Building. In October 1996, the Refuge Assurance Company merged with United Friendly to form the United Assurance Group (UAG).
After disappointing performances following the merger, the United Assurance Group was first approached by Britannic Assurance in November 1999, and then by Royal London Mutual Insurance Society in February 2000. Following successful talks, Royal London took over UAG for £1.6 billion.
The Refuge Assurance Building, Manchester, on Oxford Road, was the company's head office between 1895 and 1987
Oxford St, Manchester, Lancashire, UK, M60 7HA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,office,Victorian,architecture,1902,sandstone,grey,granite,Northern Assurance,Buildings,9-21,Princess Street,Manchester,GB,Great Britain,M2 4DN,Waddington and Sons,architect,Waddington,York stone,and,Cornish,facade,history,historic,insurance,the,Albert Estate,Waddington and Dunkerley,Dunkerley,Dutch Gables,Flemish style,building
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K3XNA4 - Shops and offices in sandstone and some grey granite, and with slate roofs. The building has an irregular plan on a corner site, and has five storeys on the front, three on the side, and attics. The main front has three wide bays and a curved corner. The central round-headed doorway is in a round-headed arch, above is a feature with a balustraded parapet and ball finials, and at the top is a shaped gable flanked by octagonal turrets. The windows in the first and second floors are sashes, and in the upper floors they are mullioned and transomed. The curved corner rises to become a cylindrical turret that has a domed roof with a cupola and a finial
9-21 Princess Street, Manchester, England, UK, M2 4DN
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Keywords: GB,united,Kingdom,great,britain,leaves,leaf,entrance,plaque,famous,building,guardian,newspaper,offices,town,city,regional,windows,columns,Harris,Manchester,College,Oxford,cradle,of,Unitarianism,by,Arthur,Aikin,Brodribb,Lancashire,gotonysmith,the,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,history,historic,buildings,Guardian,office
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DJ7B9X - Warrington Academy, active as a teaching establishment from 1756 to 1782, was a prominent dissenting academy, that is, a school or college set up by those who dissented from the state church in England. It was located in Warrington (then part of Lancashire, now within Cheshire), effectively moved to Manchester where Manchester New College was its successor institution, and led in time to the formation of Harris Manchester College, Oxford.
Warrington Academy, 138 Bridge Street, WARRINGTON, WA1 2RU
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Keywords: CWS,Co-operative,retail,Society,Manchester,England,UK,Cooperative,wholesale,wholesale society,historic,history,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Buy Pictures of CWS,Buy Images Of CWS,gotonysmith,Hanover Building,office,Hanover,Building,English CWS,Scottish CWS,the,style,brick,M60,M60 0AL,Redfern,1936,W. A. Johnson and J. W. Cropper,1930s,Dutch brick modernism,Danzig Street,Mayes Street,Hanover Street
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DE9APY - Where Danzig Street meets Mayes Street and Hanover Street, the CWS (Cooperative Wholesale Society) has two office/warehouse Buildings.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>buildings. One is the Redfern Building, the other, one block away, is its twin. The style of both buildings is described as Dutch brick modernism.
Millar street, Manchester,England, UK, M60 0AL
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Keywords: 1,England,NW,North,West,GB,Great,Britain,UK,united,Kingdom,BCSC,Gold,Award,for,Sustainability,architect,glass,construction,cooperative,city,office,location,eco,Sustainability,Award,at,the,2012,North,West,Business,Insider,Property,Awards,coop,high-sustainable,landmark,HQ,gotonysmith,locations,With,sustainability,and,innovation,at,its,heart,the,objective,of,the,programme,has,been,to,construct,a,building,that,is,adaptable,and,flexible,in,its,operation,highly efficient in the consumption of resources,but,also,economically,viable,and,replicable.,1,Angel,Square,has,been,designed,to,deliver,a,50%,reduction,in,energy,consumption,compared,to,our,current,Manchester,complex,and,an,80%,reduction,in,carbon.,This,will,lead,to,a,reduction,in,operating,costs,headoffice,head,centre,energy-plus,energyplus,powered,pure,plant,oil,fed,Combined,Heat,and,Power,CHP,system,rapeseed,Co-operative's,farm,land,energy,grid,development,waste,energy,absorption,chiller,cool,BREEAM,Outstanding,M60,0AG,M600AG,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DE9B0B - A true eco office building in central Manchester.
With sustainability and innovation at its heart the objective of the programme has been to construct a building that is adaptable and flexible in its operation, highly efficient in the consumption of resources, but also economically viable and replicable. 1 Angel Square has been designed to deliver a 50% reduction in energy consumption compared to our current Manchester complex and an 80% reduction in carbon. This will lead to a reduction in operating costs of up to a third.
The building will be powered by a pure plant oil fed Combined Heat and Power (CHP) system and will utilise rapeseed oil which is grown on The Co-operative's own farm land. Excess energy can be supplied back to the grid and utilised by the wider NOMA development with waste energy being sent through an absorption chiller, used to cool the building.
1, Angel Square, Manchester , England, UK M60 0AG
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Keywords: 1,sq,England,NW,North,West,GB,Great,Britain,UK,united,Kingdom,BCSC,Gold,Award,for,architect,glass,construction,cooperative,city,office,location,eco,Sustainability,Award,at,the,2012,North,West,Business,Insider,Property,Awards,coop,high-sustainable,landmark,HQ,gotonysmith,locations,With,sustainability,and,innovation,at,its,heart,the,objective,of,the,programme,has,been,to,construct,a,building,that,is,adaptable,and,flexible,in,its,operation,highly efficient in the consumption of resources,but,also,economically,viable,and,replicable.,1,Angel,Square,has,been,designed,to,deliver,a,50%,reduction,in,energy,consumption,compared,to,our,current,Manchester,complex,and,an,80%,reduction,in,carbon.,This,will,lead,to,a,reduction,in,operating,costs,headoffice,head,centre,energy-plus,energyplus,powered,pure,plant,oil,fed,Combined,Heat,and,Power,CHP,system,rapeseed,Co-operative's,farm,land,energy,grid,development,waste,energy,absorption,chiller,cool,BREEAM,Outstanding,M60,0AG,M600AG,ready,for,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DE9B0R - A true eco office building in central Manchester.
With sustainability and innovation at its heart the objective of the programme has been to construct a building that is adaptable and flexible in its operation, highly efficient in the consumption of resources, but also economically viable and replicable. 1 Angel Square has been designed to deliver a 50% reduction in energy consumption compared to our current Manchester complex and an 80% reduction in carbon. This will lead to a reduction in operating costs of up to a third.
The building will be powered by a pure plant oil fed Combined Heat and Power (CHP) system and will utilise rapeseed oil which is grown on The Co-operative's own farm land. Excess energy can be supplied back to the grid and utilised by the wider NOMA development with waste energy being sent through an absorption chiller, used to cool the building.
1, Angel Square, Manchester , England, UK M60 0AG
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Keywords: 1,England,NW,North,West,GB,Great,Britain,UK,united,Kingdom,BCSC,Gold,Award,for,Sustainability,architect,glass,construction,cooperative,city,office,location,eco,Sustainability,Award,at,the,2012,North,West,Business,Insider,Property,Awards,coop,high-sustainable,landmark,HQ,gotonysmith,locations,With,sustainability,and,innovation,at,its,heart,the,objective,of,the,programme,has,been,to,construct,a,building,that,is,adaptable,and,flexible,in,its,operation,highly efficient in the consumption of resources,but,also,economically,viable,and,replicable.,1,Angel,Square,has,been,designed,to,deliver,a,50%,reduction,in,energy,consumption,compared,to,our,current,Manchester,complex,and,an,80%,reduction,in,carbon.,This,will,lead,to,a,reduction,in,operating,costs,headoffice,head,centre,energy-plus,energyplus,powered,pure,plant,oil,fed,Combined,Heat,and,Power,CHP,system,rapeseed,Co-operative's,farm,land,energy,grid,development,waste,energy,absorption,chiller,cool,BREEAM,Outstanding,M60,0AG,M600AG,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DE9B2C - A true eco office building in central Manchester.
With sustainability and innovation at its heart the objective of the programme has been to construct a building that is adaptable and flexible in its operation, highly efficient in the consumption of resources, but also economically viable and replicable. 1 Angel Square has been designed to deliver a 50% reduction in energy consumption compared to our current Manchester complex and an 80% reduction in carbon. This will lead to a reduction in operating costs of up to a third.
The building will be powered by a pure plant oil fed Combined Heat and Power (CHP) system and will utilise rapeseed oil which is grown on The Co-operative's own farm land. Excess energy can be supplied back to the grid and utilised by the wider NOMA development with waste energy being sent through an absorption chiller, used to cool the building.
1, Angel Square, Manchester , England, UK M60 0AG
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Cotton,Manchester,industry,factory,mill,history,machines,cloth,manufacture,Lancashire,Victorian,ink,England,Uk,pots,school,office,offices,historic,heritage,moody,old,fashioned,old-fashioned,pen,pens,quill,quills,olden,times,dark,wood,wooden,strict
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BM3JNT - . An authentic period record of Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, retaining the practical visual detail that later redevelopment, rebranding or altered use can remove. The view specifically shows Victorian Inkpots, ink, pots, writing, England, UK. The wider scene also brings together documentary photography, social history, visual archive, historic workplace, factory equipment, changing streetscape, production machinery, community identity, local history, factory-floor equipment, place identity, engineering history, industrial artefact, and contemporary history. Today's wider story includes manufacturing history, adaptive reuse and the practical question of finding new uses for substantial older industrial buildings. For later comparison, the photograph preserves materials and construction at Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, details that may look very different after new construction. Other connected aspects are industrial archaeology, manufacturing infrastructure, regional identity, historical comparison, public realm, urban change, labour history, and everyday Britain. References to writing, Inkpots, and Victorian give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to the named subject. The period setting at Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. Another strand within the photograph is manufacturing history and keeping evidence of working practices that have disappeared without losing the local specificity of Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK. The scene retains a connection with reuse of mills and warehouses and finding new uses for substantial older industrial buildings in a form that can be compared with future views of Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK. The frame therefore remains a dated reference for Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK and the changing story of the subject shown.
Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Cotton,Manchester,industry,factory,mill,history,machines,cloth,Lancashire,factory system,Victorian,average weights,ledger,Cottonopolis,Book,average,weights,produced,output,office,in the office,operations,estimated,product,statistics,ruled,sustainable,work,ledgers,record,database,book,books,stamp,stamps,inked
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BM3JPD - . A location-based documentary photograph from Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, useful both for its immediate subject and for the smaller period details around it. The photograph is concerned with Book of weekly cloth production and average weights ledger, Victorian cotton mill, Manchester, Cottonopolis. The wider scene also brings together period detail, industrial material culture, industrial artefact, visual archive, historic workplace, social history, engineering history, labour history, local character, manufacturing infrastructure, manufacturing heritage, working-industry history, archival record, and social landscape. Today's wider story includes industrial conservation, reuse of mills and warehouses and the practical question of understanding the industries that shaped northern towns. Future viewers can use this scene from Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK to compare building condition and alterations with whatever follows after later redevelopment. The surrounding context includes regional identity, before-and-after reference, community identity, production machinery, everyday Britain, contemporary history, historical comparison, and built environment. The recorded references to cotton, Cottonopolis, ledger, Manchester, and cloth preserve clues that can help identify how the subject was presented or used at the time. Around Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, apparently routine features can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar street details disappear. The location additionally provides evidence for industrial conservation and understanding the industries that shaped northern towns within the real-world context of Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK. A further contemporary connection is adaptive reuse and finding new uses for substantial older industrial buildings within the specific setting of Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK.
Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3813000140 - 'Another sepia shot here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3828202662/
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Keywords: The CIS Tower building,headquarters,of,the,Cooperative,Insurance,Society,Manchester,England,UK,coop,co-op,Insure,insured,group,solar,panels,sustainable,facade,in,photovoltaic,panels,PV,green,office,block,gotonysmith,prestige,headquarters,showcase,Co-operative,movement,1962,steel,frame,podium,block,Grade,2,II,listed,building,architecture,Gordon,Tait,of,Burnett,Tait,&,Partners,discipline,and,consistency,towers,design,influenced,by,Skidmore,Owings,&,Merrills,Inland,Steel,Building,Chicago,architects,1958,Interiors,were,designed,by,Misha,Black,of,the,Design,Research,Unit,Solarcentury,permanent,green,energy,solution,Renovation,Within,six,months,of,construction,some,of,the,mosaic,tiles,on,the,service,tower,became,detached,owing,to,cement,failure,and,lack,of,expansion,joints,in,the,concrete.,Although,the,tower,was,granted,listed,building,status,in,1995,falling,tiles,were,an,ongoing,problem.,English,Heritage,had,to,be,consulted,alterations,could,change,the,buildings,appearance.,In,2004,CIS,consulted,Solarcentury,575.5kW,photovoltaic cells towerblock concrete,gotonysmith,Mancester,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CEY8WK - The CIS Tower is an office skyscraper on Miller Street in Manchester, England. It was completed in 1962 and rises to 387 feet (118 m) in height.
The Grade II listed building, which houses the Co-operative Banking Group, is Manchester's second-tallest building and the tallest office building outside London. The tower remained as built for over 40 years until maintenance issues on the service tower required an extensive renovation which included covering its facade in photovoltaic panels.
The tower's design was influenced by Skidmore Owings & Merrill's Inland Steel Building in Chicago after a visit by the architects in 1958. Interiors were designed by Misha Black of the Design Research Unit.
Renovation
Within six months of construction some of the mosaic tiles on the service tower became detached owing to cement failure and lack of expansion joints in the concrete. Although the tower was granted listed building status in 1995, falling tiles were an ongoing problem. English Heritage had to be consulted as alterations could change the building's appearance.
In 2004 CIS consulted Solarcentury with a view to replacing the deteriorating mosaic with 575.5kW of blue building-integrated photovoltaic (PV) cells which would provide a permanent green energy solution, generating approximately 180,000 kWh of electricity per year. The work was completed by Arup and at that time was the largest commercial solar façade in Europe.
The PV cells made by Sharp Electronics began feeding electricity to the National Grid in November 2005. The project, which cost £5.5 million, was partly funded by the Northwest Regional Development Agency which granted £885,000 and the Energy Savings Trust at the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) contributed £175,000.
The solar power project was chosen by the DTI as one of the 10 best green energy projects of 2005. Out of sight on the roof are 24 wind turbines generating 10% of the tower's electricity
CIS Tower, Miller Street, Manchester , Lancashire, England UK M60 0AL
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,IMG_4234,DWP,Eccles,Salford,unemployment,benefits,welfare,employment,work,claims,claimants,government,office,Manchester,Greater,social,security,youth,NEET,economy,jobs,labour,market,August,2026,public,adults,not,working,employed,in,education,or,schemes,scheme,course,courses
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3FAP8XH - . Department for Work and Pensions Jobcentre Plus signage at the employment and benefits office in Eccles, Salford, photographed in August 2026. Jobcentres provide face-to-face access to employment support and parts of the UK welfare system, including services used by people claiming Universal Credit and jobseekers looking for work. The close-up view of the familiar green Jobcentre Plus branding offers a clear editorial illustration for stories about unemployment, vacancies, welfare reform, benefit claims, work-search requirements, youth economic inactivity, labour-market conditions and the cost of living. In areas such as Eccles, local Jobcentre services also sit within wider discussions about town-centre change, public-service accessibility and the challenges faced by people who may not be able to rely entirely on digital channels. The photograph is suitable for reporting on DWP policy, Universal Credit, employment statistics, joblessness, NEET young people, skills, retraining and government support for people moving into work. It presents the public-facing identity of the service without identifying individual claimants or staff.
Eccles, Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK
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Keywords: The,Peninsula,Office,Block,Cheetham,Hill,road,England,UK,M4,4AA,at,night,M44AA,dusk,shot,nightshot,pano,panorama,wide,image,glass,fronted,building,car,night,trails,NQ,NQ4,nORTHERN,qUARTER,green,commercial,high,rise,high-rise,gotonysmith,near,opposite,the,Manchester,Arena,and,Manchester,Victoria,station,clad,in,glass,distinctive,elliptical,plan,Peninsula,Business,Services,laterooms.com,gotonysmith,Mancester,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HF4P - The Peninsula Building is a commercial high-rise building in Manchester, England. The building is part of Manchester's Green Quarter, a regeneration project north-west of Manchester city centre.
Peninsula lies on the fringe of the city centre, opposite the Manchester Arena and Manchester Victoria station. Construction of the building began in 2007 and it opened in 2009. The Peninsula has a distinctive elliptical plan, and is clad in a glass and granite rainscreen. The building has a BREEAM rating of 'very good' and has on-site parking for up to 200 cars.
The building is commercial, and is head office for Peninsula Business Services who occupy the first six floors, and LateRooms.com who occupy the top four floors, employing 300 people at the building
Cheetham Hill road, Manchester, England, UK M4 4AA
