46 Marshall Street – New Cross

In 1807 there is no Marshall Street, by 1813 there is.

Where it remains until this very day.

Manchester Historical Maps

This building has always intrigued me, its sits amongst what was formerly the heart of Manchester’s Rag Trade. It is an area of signs and lost industry, the comings and goings having been and gone.

It formed part of my Manchester Type Travel.

The surrounding buildings are gradually being refurbished or replaced, but somehow 46 Marshall Street is bucking the trend, though at some point someone somewhere will find over £750,000.

Gradually its wooden framed windows become the poked out eyes of its soul.

Light fittings hang limp and unlit, as the interior decor deteriorates.

The restless rust inhabits the lower metallic fenestration.

Block work blocks the blocked up entrances.

The ampersand can be traced back to the 1st century AD and the old Roman cursive, in which the letters E and T occasionally were written together to form a ligature.

Wikipedia

Portwood 2025

A chaotic situation is always deliberately produced. Ask yourself who or what sort of creature could benefit from such a situation. 

William S Burroughs – The Place of Dead Roads

We have been here before tracing the history of Portwood, also, once upon a time finding a lost photo album. returning in 2021 to take a look around.

To the west of the site the tower blocks of Lancashire Hill two twenty two storey blocks containing one hundred and ninety eight dwellings.

View of Pendlebury Towers and Stonemill Terrace, original Commissioning Authority: Stockport County Borough Council

1987

Tower Block UK

Below the flats of Lancashire Hill the River Tame, which meets with the River Goyt to from the River Mersey.

To the south the Manchester Outer Ring RoadM60.

The boundary completed by Tesco Extra and a Porsche Dealership.

We can see the remains of the road system of this former industrial site, now colonised by brambles and greenery, the imposition of earth mounds and fly tipping.

The slow accretion of detritus and undergrowth.