Salford Quays near Salford has been established where the docks were contrstructed originally on the ship canal. This area has been redeveloped to provide state of the art business centre office space to rent and serviced office space to let. The area attracts compaines from Manchester City Centre as well as the outlying areas of Greater Manchester due to it's high quality business centre office space to rent. The area is connected to the metro link offering exceptional transport links into central Manchester as well as to the outlying areas of Bury, Rochdale, Bolton etc. This enhances the demand for serviced office space to let facilities in the Quays. Serviced office space to let and business centre office space to rent is helping to establish the Quays as an alternative business location to Manchester City Centre.
Some information we have gathered for you: Salford was one of the UK's first major industrial towns and gained status at the start of the industrial revolution. Cloth and silk were made there and the processes of dyeing, fulling and bleaching were carried out. The city became a maritime centre with vast docks constructed along the ship canal. Where locally-produced goods were shipped all over the world.
Vast areas of the city were re-developed in the 1960s and 1970s, with the traditional terraced housing giving way to concrete tower blocks and austere architecture. The docks declined during the same period.
In the last decade the planning mistakes of the 1960s began to be rectified and the city is beginning to benefit from government investment. However the many high-rise blocks that remain are a striking feature of the city.
Salford Quays
Photo tour of the area
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