Quote Originally Posted by Waterways View Post
It is pretty clear it was office accommodation. The chimney stacks give it away.

Below: Dukes Dock.The building can be seen here, and looks used. Albert Dock to the left - 1964.




The superb delta potico Brindley warehouses, from the 1700s, were systematically demolished in the 1970s. Brindley designed the Bridgewater canal and many of the locks and bridges too.

Many Philistines were pressing for Hartley's Albert Dock masterpiece to be dynamited into the dock, for the building of the Polytechnic and its car-park.

They got their way on the Brindley warehouses adjacent. Thank God we had the likes of Quentin Hughes and Tony Moscardini who could see what was obvious to all but those in power.

Below: Albert Dock is behind the camera. This Dukes Dock warehouse was demolished in 1964.


Nice photos Waterways. It's ironic that the same design of warehouses at the Manchester end of the Bridgewater canal have survived as has the earlier Mersey and Irwell navigation warehouse. Both have now been renovated and look superb