An occasional series describing a Manchester landmark in one sentence.
It was built in 1932 for Rylands and Sons as a wholesale textile warehouse and acquired by Pauldens in 1957 and converted into a departmental store, changing its name to Debenhams in 1973.
Location; Market Street, Manchester
Picture; the Rylands Building, 2016, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
It was built in 1932 for Rylands and Sons as a wholesale textile warehouse and acquired by Pauldens in 1957 and converted into a departmental store, changing its name to Debenhams in 1973.
Location; Market Street, Manchester
Picture; the Rylands Building, 2016, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
The original excavations feature in a work by L.S.Lowry "Excavations" of 1932, I understand.
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