Building Name

Cold‑air Stores, Weaste Salford

Date
1899
District/Town
Weaste, Salford
County/Country
GMCA, England
Client
Colonial Consignment and Distributing Company Limited
Work
New Build
Contractor
William Southern and Sons

At Weaste, on the Manchester Ship Canal, new cold‑air stores, which have been erected by the Colonial Consignment and Distributing Company Limited, at a cost of £52,000, were opened on Friday. The stores provide 400,000 cubic feet. of refrigerated space. The machinery for refrigerating and for the generation of steam and electric light is duplicated in each instance, and there are two electric lifts. The new stores, which occupy an area of 3,000 square yards, have been built by Messrs Southern and Sons, from the designs of Mr Charles Heathcote, architect, of Manchester.

Reference           Building News 28 July 1899 Page 117