Smithfield Buildings
Former Victorian department store block converted into award-winning loft flats above independent shops.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Smithfield Buildings in Manchester's Northern Quarter starts with a record sleeve on the ground floor and reaches back to Affleck and Brown, the Victorian drapery that grew to fill this whole block and earned a grand nickname. It follows the women who bought dress cloth and furs here on credit, the post-war years when shoppers drifted off Oldham Street, and a couple who opened a market across the road in the nineteen eighties. Best heard on the Church Street side, facing Tib Street.
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