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English: The imposing five-storey building built of Portland Stone in 1928 on the corner of Oldham Street and Piccadilly was once the flagship Woolworth's store in Manchester SJ8498 : Woolworth's, Manchester. At the time it was the largest Woolworth's store in Europe.
On May 8th, 1979 a deadly fire started around 1pm. A damaged electrical wire in the vicinity of piled furniture started a blaze that resulted in 9 shoppers and one staff member being killed. So significant was the fire that it resulted in the routine installation of sprinkler systems, which Woolworth's didn't have, in large retail stores. It also led to changes in the material used in soft furnishings to reduce the hazards created when the stuffing was exposed to fire. For many years it has been an amusement arcade but there are plans to evict Nobles and develop the building into an hotel and shops. |
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| Author | Gerald England |
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This image was taken from the Geograph project collection. See this photograph's page on the Geograph website for the photographer's contact details. The copyright on this image is owned by Gerald England and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
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