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Friday, 5th December 2003
Architecture, then and nowWHEN Mancunians were accorded the title “citizens” their city would have been virtually unrecognisable to the modern observer.
Few of the great palazzo-style textile warehouses that stamp Manchester as a Victorian city had been built, the town hall was a Georgian building in King Street and what became Piccadilly Gardens was dominated by the Royal Infirmary, complete with ornamental fountains installed for the visit of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1851.
The Cathedral – still then St Mary’s Collegiate Church - St Ann’s, Chetham’s, the Atheneum, Portico Library and Art Gallery are still standing, but the sinister bulk of the Workhouse and New Bailey Prison have long disappeared.
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