Pendleton Co-operative Industrial building, Broughton Road, Pendleton, Salford
Warehouses, Dale Street, Northern Quarter
The Stones of Manchester is a visual record of the built environment of Greater Manchester, an urban region of 493 square miles in the northwest of England.
The 3,500 photographs on this site are by Paul Dobraszczyk, an architectural writer based in Manchester. Focusing on a wide range of visual categories - from banks to viaducts - the site provides an innovative and detailed photographic record of both familiar and lesser known buildings, landmarks and visual textures of Greater Manchester.
All the photographs published on this site are available for purchase. Please contact me for further information.
St Oswald & St Edmund Arrowsmith Roman Catholic church, Liverpool Road, Ashton-in-Makerfield
The Monastery, Gorton Lane, Gorton
Gorse Mill, Gorse Street, Chadderton, Oldham
Gateway House, Piccadilly Station Approach
Reflections, Bridgewater Canal, Castlefield Basin
Inspection chamber, Medock culvert, Bradford
Warwick Street, Northern Quarter
Terrace, Rostron Road, Ramsbottom
Neeli Masjid, Exeter Street, Rochdale
Castlefield Basin
Odeon Sale, Washway Road, Sale, Trafford
Manchester Crown Courts, Crown Square
Painting created by pupils of Stanley Grove Primary School, Longsight
Tiles, The Raven Hotel, Market Street, Wigan
Strangeways prison, Southall Street, Strangeways
W. Toole Star Iron Works, Greenacres Road, Oldham
Mersey Culvert, Stockport
Stockport Market Hall, Market Place, Stockport
Sale Cemetery, Marsland Road, Sale, Trafford
John Owens Building, University of Manchester, Oxford Road
Stockport Town Hall, Wellington Road South, Stockport
Mayfield railway station, Fairfield Street
Offices, Ring Road, Ancoats
Rochdale Road tenements, Rochdale Road
Lloyd's House, Lloyd Street/Jackson's Row
M60 motorway bridge over the Manchester Ship Canal, Eccles
Mural, Wellington Mill, Pollard Street East, Ancoats
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