Facing onto Oxford Street and bounded on one side by Bridgewater Street and on the other by the Rochdale Canal, the Tootal Building was designed by Joseph Gibbons Sankey in 1898. Angular towers topped by lanterns stand at the corners of this red brick and terracotta structure. Along the Oxford Street side giant Corinthian columns divide the bays. On the canal side a similar pattern continues this time with pilasters.

This was the home of the famous Tootal Tie. Inside is a War Memorial for the employees who died in the Great War that was designed by James Henry Sellers, one of the architects who designed the Lee Building extension to the Tootal Building.

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The following images, shown here by permission of English Heritage, were taken in the building around 1900.

The clerks' office above.

The pattern shop where the workers made templates from drawings on paper for use in textile production

The packing room - as you can see some of the crates are bound for the 14th Hussars in Cape Town, South Africa during the Boer War.