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Manchester's original civic administration (a commission of police) was housed in the Police Office on King Street from 1772; it was near the junction with Deansgate and Police Street is so called because of it. It was replaced by the first Town Hall, to accommodate the growing local government and
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is King Street West on a different alignment. By the 1970s, there was a clear demarcation between the eastern section of mainly financial and office buildings and the narrower section to the west a mostly upmarket shopping street (later pedestrianised). Subsequently, the eastern section had the
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Many notable buildings survive and are preserved in a conservation area. On King Street there are 11 buildings listed Grade II, two listed Grade II* and one Grade I; on King Street West is one at Grade II and on South King Street nearby three more at Grade II.
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35-37 King Street; a Georgian house built in 1736, it became Loyd Entwisle's bank in 1788 and under various names continued until it was incorporated into the National Westminster Bank; in the 1990s it was closed as a bank and converted into a
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end when the Jacobite party in the town created James's Square and to the west of it a fine street. Beyond what is now Cross Street it was much narrower and one 18th-century building remains (a former District Bank). Further west beyond
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King Street (along with Bridge Street) is considered Manchester's most upmarket shopping area; it has included the Manchester branches of
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offices built at no. 55 and some years later further changes increasingly brought more upmarket retail. In 2008, the grand
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its civic assembly rooms. The Town Hall, also located on King Street at the corner of Cross Street, was designed by
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industry but it has become progressively dominated by upmarket retail instead of large banks.
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The part west of Cross Street was already a shopping street in the early 20th century.
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74 King Street - Northern Rock Building Society by Heathcote and Rawle, (1896)
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84–86 King Street - Former Manchester and Salford Savings Bank by
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in 1912, when the current building was erected on the site (
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Origins of Street Names in the City Centre of Manchester
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style and Goodwin was strongly influenced by his patron
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76-80 King Street - Prudential Assurance Offices by
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Former Bank of England Building


53 King Street
Manchester city centre
north-west
banking
Spring Gardens
Deansgate
National Westminster Bank
Midland Bank
Edwin Lutyens
HSBC Bank
Francis Goodwin
David Bellhouse
Grecian
John Soane
textile industry
public library
Heaton Park
53 King Street
Lloyds TSB
Alfred Waterhouse
Manchester Reform Club
Edward Salomons
82 King Street
Bank of England

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