manchester tourist guide history
Wednesday, 30th July 2003
Manchester PalazzosBy the 1840s the Renaissance Palace had been adopted. The simple yet grand design gave plenty of light but didn't waste undue space on decoration. The salesrooms with cotton samples were on the upper floors, the first floor provided the counting house and the administration whilst the lower basement contained the steam engines and boilers. Cotton goods left from the iron gateway on the rear or side. This picture shows one of the elegant Princess Street buildings by Clegg and Knowles, 1869. As C.R. Reilly (1924) described: '[the] warehouses represent the essentials of [Manchester's] trade, the very reason for her existence. They are too near to her heart, for any light treatment. Hence their simplicity, strength, and sincerity, and consequently their real beauty.'
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