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Liverpool Road Cottages
 Liverpool Road now runs
through an area in which museums, leisure attractions
and modern housing predominate but it wasn't always so.
This was an area of commerce at the covergence of
railways, river and canals. Near the Deansgate end of
the road there is a terrace of houses which date back to
the 18th and 19th centuries. They have shops and cafés
at street level, but on their third storey you can see
the windows that were designed to allow as much light as
possible into what were attic workshops. These are very
similar to the weavers' cottages that you see in the
towns and villages around Rochdale. They represented an
intermediate step in the Industrial Revolution from
individual family manufacturing of raw material on farms
and the full blown factory production that was to
follow.
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