Barton Arcade
Victorian cast-iron and glass shopping arcade with domed roofs and galleried balconies.
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This guide to Barton Arcade in Manchester begins in eighteen seventy-one, with a Salford contractor's men digging down beneath Deansgate, and turns on a roof that was not made in the city at all. It follows Walter MacFarlane's Saracen Foundry in Glasgow, the glasshouse experiment that inspired the design, and the lion heads and iron foliage still on the galleries. Best heard standing in the middle of the arcade, under the glass.
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