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unusual facts about Royal visits to Manchester and Salford during the reign of Queen Victoria


Royal visits to Manchester and Salford during the reign of Queen Victoria

The Queen rode past the stately warehouses, like that of Messrs. Watt on Portland Street, the newly built Manchester Town Hall (1877), with the Albert Memorial, in Albert Square, Manchester's tribute to her late husband and finally the emerging commercial buildings epitomised in Lewis's Department store, all of which shaped the Manchester still visible to today’s citizens and visitors.



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