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.  Close Window |