Extension to Head Office Building Hunt’s Bank Manchester

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY – The Directors are prepared to receive Tenders for the EXTENSION of the HEAD OFFICE BUILDINGS, Hunt’s Bank, Manchester. Plans may be seen and bills of quantities and forms of tender obtained on application to the architect, Mr William Dawes, 2 Cooper Street, Manchester, on or after Monday next, the 24th instant. Tenders to be addressed to the Directors and endorsed “Tenders for the extension of the head office buildings, Hunts Bank,” to be in the hands of the undersigned not later than ten o’clock on the morning of 8th April 1884. The Directors do not bind themselves to accept the lowest or any tender. J H Stafford, Secretary, Manchester 21 March 1884. [Manchester Guardian 22 March 1884 page10]

Reference    Manchester Guardian 22 March 1884 page10 – contracts
Reference    British Architect 4 April 1884 Page ix

NOTE - Before its demolition, the head office of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway stood on an island site opposite the station buildings. While it is clear that Dawes was responsible for this extension of 1884 he has been erroneously credited with the design of the existing main station buildings of 1903-1909. Given that William Dawes died in 1897 such an attribution would not appear credible.