Grain Elevator Number 2 - Salford Map provided by The Probert Encyclopaedia At the end of Dock 9 in
the Manchester/Salford Docks a huge grain elevator stood
like a 168 foot high wall across the end of the dock.
 This was Grain
Elevator Number 2, built in 1915 by Henry Simon
Limited, which was capable of storing 40, 000 tons
of grain. As you can see the elevator was
served on the land side by an extensive railway
system. On the water side barges were laod for
trans-shipment up the Bridgewater Canal. The
aerial images below, from the 1940s, (shown with the
permission of English Heritage) show Elevator Number
2, indicated by an arrow.
  Elevator Number 2
was demolished in 1983 and that dramatic process
has been captured beautifully by
Chris Allen in his photograph shown below.  ***************** Today Dock 9 has been
subdivided into two "basins" and the Erie Basin forms
the upper end of the dock.
 Sitting along the end
of the Erie Basin, where the elevator stood, is the
Anchorage building.
 The Anchorage was the
first large office block built at the Salford Quays as a
collaboration between Salford Council and AMEC. It
was designed by the Percy Thomas Partnership and
completed in 1991. Among the original occupants
were BUPA, NatWest, Barclay's, Halliwell Landau and the
Inland Revenue.
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