Victoria Hotel
Francis Frith 07/10/1822 - 25/02/1898
Summary
The Victoria Hotel is on the left: it is a large Victorian commercial-gothic building, surmounted by a round tower. Before it stands a statue of Oliver Cromwell, facing away from us. To the right of the image is a view down Deansgate, one of the principal streets of Manchester: it is not crowded; only a single horse-drawn tram is visible in the distance. Other buildings in the nineteenth-century Manchester-Venetian vein line Deansgate opposite the hotel. The Victoria Hotel, later called Victoria Buildings, was bombed by the Luftwaffe in 1940 and subsequently demolished.
Object Name
Victoria Hotel
Creators Name
Date Created
1850-1898
Dimensions
support: 19.2cm x 29.3cm
accession number
1909.926/8
Collection Group
fine art
photograph
British
local history
old Manchester collection
Place of creation
Manchester
Support
paper
Medium
sepia toned silver gelatin print
Credit
Gift of Old Manchester Committee, 1909
Legal
© Manchester Art Gallery
