Market Building, London Road, Manchester

NEW MARKET IN LONDON ROAD - On Saturday next, April 26th, the new meat and fruit market will be used for the first time by sellers and buyers. The market is a neat stone building in the Venetian style, ornamented by the Manchester Arms, stone carvings of fruit etc and disfigured by enormous letters announcing who was mayor in 1862. The market has a frontage of 90 feet to London Road, where is the principal entrance. There are also two entrances from Birmingham-street and two from Swarbrick-street, by both of which street the market is bounded. The lower part of the front potion of the building is divided into shops, which are already let off to persons in different ways of business. The upper storey is used for offices, some of which have been taken by Messrs Carver and Company, carriers, and some by the Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company. The market itself is behind these shops and offices and covers a space of 90 feet by 70 feet. It is approached by a porch over the door of which is a pyramidal device showing the purposes to which the market is to be devoted. At the top there is an ornamental balustrade. The interior of the market consists of three bays supported by iron pillars and lighted by skylights. The ornamental ironwork of the doors, and the caps to the pilasters have a very pleasing effect. There is accommodation for 15 butchers stalls and 19 stalls for fruiterers, greengrocers and dealers in miscellaneous article. The avenues between the stalls are spacious and so disposed as to admit of a free and uninterrupted passage for the public, and a fair display of the goods of the dealers. A machine capable of weighing 20 tons is connected with the market. The work has been carried out under the superintendence of Mr J C Lynde, the city surveyor, the contractors being Mr Buxton for the mason's work; Mr Burnell for the joiner's work; and Mr Heywood of Derby for the ironwork: the clerk of the works was Mr S Taylor. [Manchester Courier 19 April 1862 Page 9 Column 1]

 Note:  Market Buildings London Road listed in 1879 directory but not in the 1883 directory. Assumed demolished to allow the expansion of London Road Station. Site appears to have been in the vicinity of Store Street