More on the plans for Manchester in 1945

Not long ago I wrote about the ambitious plan to transform the city. The 1945 pan for Manchester a bold vision of where we live could be. It is fascinating document going into detail on every aspect of how the city worked. But above all it is the fine paintings of what the planners wanted to do.

So here are some more. The grounds around the cathedral were to be opened up, and something of this has happened.

Trinity Station was to be a brand new railway station.

But the plan included much that was what the city looked like in 1945, like the panorama of the city showing the bomb damage.


Pictures; from the 1945 Plan for Manchester, Manchester Corporation, 1945, Courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council