#long millgate

This detailed 1888 plan of Manchester

Scenes between Market Street and Victoria Station, following the route earmarked for the first Metrolink city crossing. We proceed along High Street, Nicholas Croft, across Shudehill to Balloon Street then across Corporation Street and Long Millgate. Groundwork has already begun, moving utilites and creating storage compounds for materials. Many Georgian and early Victorian buildings were soon to disappear, along with streets such as Cannon Street, Snow Hill and Bradshaw Street. We end with the concourse at Victoria, where a train departs for Bury from what was then platform 5. 

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1875

1969

The map from 1849 shows the Bay Horse’s location

Same spot on google maps

1895