Extensions, Victoria Station, Victoria Station Approach, Manchester (atrib)

Widely and ERRONEOUSLY attributed to William Dawes. Dawes died on 16 February 1897, four years before work commenced and over a decade before the new frontage to Victoria Station was completed.

At the beginning of the twentieth century work began on a major rebuilding and extension to the Manchester terminus of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, the designs for which were produced by the Engineer’s office of the railway company.  Responsibility for the design of the front offices building booking hall, etc of Victoria Station must reasonably be attributed to the company architect, Henry Shelmerdine, who also designed the frontage of Exchange Station, Tithebarn Street, the Company’s Liverpool terminus, two decades before.