Victoria Arches
Another report from this Manchester classic, shouts to @Bigjobs for sorting it all out and giving me a hand on the way out. Visited with @Moose (formerly TunnelMon) along with @NickUk
The Victoria Arches are a series of bricked-up arches built in an embankment of the River Irwell in Manchester. They served as business premises, landing stages for steam packet riverboats and as Second World War air-raid shelters. They were accessed from wooden staircases that descended from Victoria Street. Regular flooding resulted in the closure of the steam-packet services in the early 20th century, and the arches were later used for general storage. Following the outbreak of the Second World War they were converted into air raid shelters. They are now bricked up and inaccessible, the staircases having been removed in the latter part of the 20th century.
Turns out one of my mate's dads worked on this place back when the scaff was up, he had a fair few stories to share!
Another report from this Manchester classic, shouts to @Bigjobs for sorting it all out and giving me a hand on the way out. Visited with @Moose (formerly TunnelMon) along with @NickUk
The Victoria Arches are a series of bricked-up arches built in an embankment of the River Irwell in Manchester. They served as business premises, landing stages for steam packet riverboats and as Second World War air-raid shelters. They were accessed from wooden staircases that descended from Victoria Street. Regular flooding resulted in the closure of the steam-packet services in the early 20th century, and the arches were later used for general storage. Following the outbreak of the Second World War they were converted into air raid shelters. They are now bricked up and inaccessible, the staircases having been removed in the latter part of the 20th century.
Turns out one of my mate's dads worked on this place back when the scaff was up, he had a fair few stories to share!
