Cottonopolis was a 19th-century nickname for Manchester, as it was a metropolis and the centre of the cotton industry.The Manchester warehouse which we lately visited, was a building fit for the Town Hall of any respectable municipality; a stately, spacious, and tasteful edifice; rich and substantial as its respectable proprietors, the well-known firm of Banneret and Co. There are nearly a hundred such buildings in Manchester; –not so large, perhaps, for this is the largest; but all in their degree worthy of Cottonopolis.
Manchester's Royal Exchange
Cotton mills in Ancoats
Asia House, one of Manchester's packing warehouses
38 and 42 Mosley Street, designed by Edward Walters was built in 1880 for the Manchester and Salford Bank.
Manchester ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The city borders the boroughs of Trafford, Stockport, Tameside, Oldham, Rochdale, Bury and Salford.
Image: Manchester Town Hall from Lloyd St
Image: Manchester Cathedral (4)
Image: High Rise Living at Deansgate Square, geograph 7187627 by David Dixon
Image: Bridgewater Canal, Castlefield Basin (geograph 6966336)
