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1838

MANCHESTER ART GALLERY

1914

PICCADILLY GARDENS

1930

ODEON

1932

Instructions by city council to prepare designs for the city centre ring road.

1939

Start of WWII

1940

THE BLITZ

1942

Planning work commences on the 1945 City of Manchester Plan.

1945

1945

City of Manchester 1945 Plan

Partial end of the WWII

City of Manchester Plan 1945 published.

Exhibition of 1945 Plan at City Art Gallery

1947

Town and Country Planning Act

1948

1948

CHINATOWN

Operations of Manchester’s last tram.

First programmed, stored memory, computer nicknamed ‘Baby’ – developed at The University of Manchester.

Railway nationalised.

194O's

LATE 1940's SKETCHES

1950

AERIAL VIEW OF PICCADILLY GARDENS

1951

Manchester Corporation submits their Development Plan under the terms of the 1947 Town and Country Planning Act.

1952

GUARDIAN PHONE EXCHANGE

1957

Harold Watkinson, Minister of Transport from 1955-59, announced the next major plan for the motorway network.

1959

TELEPHONE HOUSE

1960

London Road Station renamed Manchester Piccadilly when it reopened.

1961

Approval of Manchester Development Plan with conditions to revisit central components.

1962

PORTLAND TOWER

1963

Manchester first Chief Planner appointed, John Stanley Millar

1964-5

Report of the City Planning Officer

1964

Commercial Union Assurance BUILDING

1964

PINE STREET (FAULKNER HOUSE)

1965

PICCADILLY PLAZA

1965

CITY TOWER

1965

HOTEL PICCADILLY

1965

BERNARD HOUSE

1965

WILLIAM DEACON BANK

1965

woolwich house

1966

ST JAMES' HOUSE

1967

Manchester City Centre Map

1967

Manchester draft city centre plan produced and approved it included several CDA design actions, which would come to shape the city on the surface.

 Mancunian Way officially opened by pm Harold Wilson

1967

RUTHERFORD HOUSE

1968

Manchester City Centre Road

1971

BANK CHAMBERS

1971

ELISABETH HOUSE

1972

LOUIS KHAN VISIT

1972

MASTERPLAN

1972

CULTURAL PRECINCT

1972

OPERA HOUSE

1972

THEATRE

1972

MANCHESTER ART GALLERY EXTENSION

1972

No. 2 ST. PETER'S SQUARE

1972

No. 112 PORTLAND STREET

1972

NEW BASIL HOUSE

1973

EAGLE STAR

1988

Guardian underground Telephone Exchange closed.

2016

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