Methodist Women's Night Shelter

This building, the former Methodist Women's Night Shelter, fronts on to Great Ancoats Street, Manchester. Pevsner says it was opened in 1899 with a coffee tavern on the ground floor, whilst the rest was "a night shelter, a home for women needing further care and attention and a home for domestic servants, offered as an alternative to the moral perils of the lodging house."

This blip is its side wall, in George Leigh Street, today reflecting bright sunlight from its neighbour, the former Daily Express Building. From 1939 until the 1980s, the paper was printed here. The presses in the triple height press hall were, it is said, an impressive sight, particularly when lit up at night.