On stumbling across St Ann's Church from the alley

Now what I like about this picture is that it is unusual.

Most images of St Ann’s Church are taken from the square, bit for some reason the photographer has caught the building from St Ann’s Alley which is that narrow thoroughfare running off from Cross Street down the side of Mr Thomas’s Chop House.

And the result is to frame the church on either side of two buildings and I rather think draws in.

To our right the area in the summer is now an outdoor area for the chop house, but until recently it was just an open space.

Now the date in the catalogue in 1905 but the other cards in the series all date from the 1950s and so I rather think this image will be the same.

Picture; St Ann’s Church, from the series, Manchester Lilywhite, issued by Tuck & Sons, courtesy of TuckDB http://tuckdb.org/history