Sujet

Watts Warehouse, 47 Portland Street, Manchester, 1942. Creator: George Bernard Wood.

Légende

Watts Warehouse, 47 Portland Street, Manchester, 1942. A detailed view of Watts Warehouse, now the Britannia Hotel, showing three bays of the basement to second floor. Formerly a general warehouse built between 1851 and 1865 by Travis and Mangnall, the building has since become a hotel. It has five storeys with a basement and roof pavilions, 23 bays to the east and west, and seven bays to the south. The south facade has rustication up to the second floor, with round-headed ground floor windows with voussoirs and keystones. The first floor has four pane sash windows with balustraded balconies and decorated pediments. The second floor windows are supported by three slim columns. In the image the basement windows have been bricked up and the upper floors have blackout fabric. The building was bought in 1979 to be renovated into a hotel.

Date

1942

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Notre référence

HRM21B16_165

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

72,2Mo (7,0Mo) / 36,2cm x 50,0cm / 4270 x 5908 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors building England architecture industry country window warehouse warehouses British English county windows industrial hotel war location Victorian century lancashire Britain wartime concept B&W 1940s warfare Forties World War II World War two 19th century WWII blackout black & white black and white B W world war 2 20th century air raid Blitz nineteenth century aerial warfare Air Raid Precautions decade Home Front Portland Street Second World War WW2 outside street photograph Listed Building 2nd World War ARP Britannia Hotel Grade II Historic England h?tel 19th-century George Bernard Wood Wood George Bernard Watts Warehouse