The Anchorage - Harbour City - Salford  The Anchorage sits at
the end of Dock 9. It 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.
    The Erie Basin is the
end of what was Dock 9 and on the site of today's
"Anchorage" there was once a huge grain elevator that
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 loaded
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.  |