Portland Tower Beyond the Princess
Hotel and Telephone House on Portland Street in the
image above, you can see the Portland Tower, marked in
the photograph with a red dot.
 Originally the
building was called St. Andrew's House. It was
designed by Leach Rhodes Walker and built in 1962
for the Scottish Widows. It is comprised of a
21 storey tower over a 2 storey podium. Today
the building is part of the Bruntwood holding of
office space in the city.
  In 1888 the site was
occupied by a warehouse block as you can see in the
sketch map below.
 During the Manchester
Blitz the building was destroyed and the site was
cleared as you can see in this RAF aerial
photograph. The site is bounded by a red line.
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