Title

Whitworth Street/Princess Street, Manchester

Caption

Whitworth Street/Princess Street, Manchester, c2000s(?). This aerial photograph shows the cotton warehouse district of Manchester, most of which date from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Manchester at this time was the focus of the Lancashire cotton industry and traded cotton both nationally and internationally. Many of these buildings were constructed not by independent merchants but by cloth manufactures with mills elsewhere.

Date

2000

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Reference

HRM19B37_246

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

49,8Mb (2,4Mb) / 13,9in x 13,9in / 4169 x 4174 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior outdoors road building buildings England architecture street industry country warehouse British English color colour lane industrial avenue location Victorian century Britain car park outside cotton 21st century aerial view Manchester textile industry bird's eye view 19th century aerial photography 20th century nineteenth century English Heritage 2000s Greater Manchester Princess Street TGN photograph Unknown Whitworth Street photograph