The single window frame is all that remains of the large three storey shoe factory of T C Mann & Sons, built in 1877 and destroyed by fire in January 1909. Manchester House a few yards away was built for T C Mann Junior.
The company moved to a new factory in Short Lane, see plaque 16.
Plaque 8
Mann’s Shoe Factory
WHISTON ROAD (adjacent to Armadale House)
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