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Edward
Salomons
Edward Salomons was
born in 1828. He was a pupil of J. E. Gregan,
who designed the Mechanics Institute building on
Princess Street. Salomons set up his own
practice in Manchester in 1852. His first
commission was a warehouse that stood on the corner of
Fountain Street and Spring Gardens that John J.
Parkinson-Bailey described as, "It had a most
remarkable stone entrance, cut so hard and crisp
as to make it look almost like cast iron."
Unfortunately it was demolished to make way for
something less worthy. Here are some more of
Salomons' buildings in Manchester.
Trinity Court,
John Dalton Street, 1865
Only the facade
of Salomons' building remains as a front for a
complete redevelopment by Stephenson Bell in
1993.
   ********************** Warehouse, corner of Booth Street and Fountain Street - 1868 Clare
Hartwell's
"Manchester, Pevsner Architectural
Guide", attributes this building to
Clegg and Knowles and I have to say it
does look like their work. I
have added it here because John J.
Parkinson-Bailey, in "Manchester, An
Architectural History", says that it
is probably Edward Salomons'.
   ************************ Reform Club, King Street - 1870 - 1871 - Salomons' Masterpiece     ******************** Number 8 Booth Street - the former Manchester & Salford Trustee Savings Bank - 1872    *************** Synagogue, Chetham Hill Road - 1873 - 1874 - for the Sephardic Community   ****************** Massey Chambers, 6 Booth Street - 1879    Built for Thomas Jepson, solicitor. Notice the carved heads.   ************************* Gas Committee Showroom & Offices, Deansgate - 1880s   April 2009 ****************** Edward
Salomons
designed a house called The Gables
in Victoria Park near Hanover Crescent.
He lived in the house between 1885 and
1891. By the 1990s The Gables was
abandoned and rotting away. A campaign
to save it was mounted. In the end it
was incorporated into the Opal Gardens
university residence complex and a glimpse of
it can be seen below.
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