12th March 1912

Red Monarch Butterfly Cross Stitch Pattern - now available here http://etsy.me/2fIDQkn

May 1965

This detailed 1886 plan of Manchester is one of a series of twenty-two sheets in an atlas originally produced to aid insurance companies in assessing fire risks. The building footprints, their use (commercial, residential, educational, etc.), the number of floors and the height of the building, as well as construction materials (and thus risk of burning) and special fire hazards (chemicals, kilns, ovens) were documented in order to estimate premiums. Names of individual businesses, property lines, and addresses were also often recorded. Together these maps provide a rich historical shapshot of the commercial activity and urban landscape of towns and cities at the time. 

looking north towards Royal Exchange

1935

11th October 1911

1905