Whitworth Street

53°28′30″N 2°14′20″W / 53.475°N 2.239°W / 53.475; -2.239

Whitworth Street, Manchester city centre, in 2010
Whitworth Street near junction with Oxford Street in 2008

Whitworth Street is a street in Manchester, England. It runs between London Road (A6) and Oxford Street (A34). West of Oxford Street it becomes Whitworth Street West, which then goes as far as Deansgate (A56). It was opened in 1899 and is lined with many large and grand warehouses.[1] It is named after the engineer Joseph Whitworth, whose works once stood along the route.[2] Whitworth Street West runs alongside the viaduct connecting Oxford Road and Deansgate railway stations: beyond Albion Street the Rochdale Canal is on the northern side. On the Albion Street corner is the building once occupied by the Haçienda nightclub at nos. 11–13, as well as the Twisted Wheel Club at no. 6 , while further west on the opposite side is the Ritz.

Opposite the Sackville Street Building is Sackville Gardens, a public park established in 1900.

  1. ^ Warehouses Whitworth Street, School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering Manchester University, archived from the original on 11 March 2012, retrieved 1 October 2012
  2. ^ Bradshaw, L. D. (1985). Origins of Street Names in the City of Manchester. Radcliffe: Neil Richardson. ISBN 0-907511-87-2.