Another little bit of our history soon to disappear? ............. Out on Pollard Street

Now this building may  now have vanished.  

It stands on Pollard Street just off Great Ancoats Street between what is left of Boond Street and Mundy Street.

I was first alerted to it by Angie who told me that
“it dates from 1889 and was the private dining rooms for Hetherington’s Vulcan Works on Pollard Street.

They made the machinery that went into the cotton mills. 

In 1930 it became W H Barnes & Son a shirt manufacturer it went on to be a printing shop signs etc before ending up as a sewing shop eventually being abandoned sometime in the late 90's.”

And it is one of those places I must have passed loads of times giving it only a second’s thought.

Today it stands out surrounded as it is by open land  and new blocks of flats away in the distance.

An application to demolish was made back in May 2013 and was granted.*

Pictures; the building today from the collection of Angie Thomas and back in 1967 beside the Auld Lang Syne Inn by H.L. Price, m10453, courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council, http://images.manchester.gov.uk/index.php?session=pass

*Manchester City Council Planning Application Documents, 31 Pollard Street, 101896/DEM/2013/N2 http://pa.manchester.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=externalDocuments&keyVal=MJHRFOBC06N00