Victoria Market Victoria Street (late Smithy Door) Manchester

THE NEW MARKET – The new market adjoining Victoria Street (late Smithy Door) is nearly completed and is to be opened on Saturday next, and not this day as stated in our last. It is a plain brick edifice, substantially built, and from the nature of the ground, of somewhat irregular shape, being nearly of the form of the letter L inverted with one arm extending westwards to Victoria Street and the other southwards to the Fish-market. Its extreme (inside) length from the Fish-Market towards Cateaton Street is about 115 feet and the length of the other arm is about 75 feet. The market will accommodated 46 butchers’ stalls (each seven or eight feet long and five feet wide), being eleven more than were contained in the Brown Street Market; and there will be a few butter stalls. The avenues between the stalls vary from five to seven feet in width. There are five entrances to the market; one directly from Victoria Street, and two others from the gateway leading out of that street, a fourth from an entry out of Old Millgate, and a fifth at the end of the south avenue, exactly opposite the north entrance to the Fish-market. The form of the market has been in some measure determined by the owner of the Fox Public House asking a price for that property which the Lord of the Manor refused to give. Adjoining this property, Sir Oswald Mosley has erected a building of four storeys, of which the three upper floors extend over the market, and which it is intended, when finished, to bet let for offices, etc.  Beneath the market are various excellent cellars, for butchers’ meat, fish, etc.; and adjoining these at the end nearest Cateaton Street is a large ice house, said to be one of the most capacious out of London, of great depth, and capable of storing, it is said, 1,000 tons of ice. The whole of the erections are from plans of Mr Goldsmith, architect; Mr John Cookson was the builder employed; and it is supposed the cost of erection will be from £4,000 to £5,000. [Manchester Guardian 14 November 1840 page 2]

VICTORIA MARKET, Manor of Manchester – Notice is hereby given that on Saturday the 21st day of November instant, the NEW MARKET HOUSE adjoining Victoria Street and the Fish Market in the said manor, intended to be called the “Victoria Market,” will be opened for the sale of Butchers’ Meat on the usual market days. By order of the Lord of the Manor. Manchester 10 November 1840. [Manchester Guardian 14 November 1840 page1]

Reference    Manchester Guardian 14 November 1840 page 2 – description
Reference    Manchester Guardian 14 November 1840 page1 – classified
Reference    Manchester Guardian 20 March 1841 page 1 – classified