Woollam Place - Potato Wharf



In a block bound by Potato Wharf, the railway viaduct, Woollam Place and Liverpool Road is a residential development of low-rise apartments arranged around a courtyard.  The Lycos website says this about it, "One of the Manchester's first city centre developments, Woollam Place and Potato Wharf were constructed before Castlefield became fashionable.....Set just off Liverpool Road this large collection of traditional style apartments have good-sized rooms, sash windows and large private grounds. It's one of the few remaining gated developments in town."





This site has a long history of residential use.  As you can see, terraced housing ran along Woollam Place and Medlock Street extending below the railway viaduct.




Here it is again in 1851 on the Adshead Map (shown here with the permission of Chetham's Library).  The Navigation Inn was still at the end of the Medlock Street terrace.



By the time the aerial photograph below was taken in 1953, most of the houses were still there.