Princess House and Montana House are two large apartment towers that sit side-by-side on Princess Street close to the point where the River Medlock passes under the street. 

In the 1920s a large warehouse/factory building occupied this site beside the Medlock.  The Kelly's Directory of Manchester & Salford for 1927 indicates that the occupant of 144 Princess Street was W. Langford & Co Ltd, manufacturers of frocks, Princess skirts and dress skirts.  When the map of the area was drawn for 1928 (my version below) the building was home to a shirt factory and a making-up and packing warehouse.   Montana House stands where there was once a fur glove factory and engineers had premises.

Click on the link below to see the site as it was in 1959.  144 Princess Street is the tall building just beyond the street light.

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