Manchester, Town Hall 1889
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This was how the Town Hall in Albert Square looked twelve years after its official opening in 1877. The area at the front of the town hall had been cleared in about 1862 to make space for a memorial to 'Albert the Good', the beloved husband of Queen Victoria. It was a densely built-up area. Albert Square adjoined the Town Yard, land that the corporation owned, and which was already being viewed as a site for a new Town Hall. Princess Street, to the left, was originally called Prince's Street, after Queen Victoria's sons.
An extract from Manchester Photographic Memories.
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