Cold-Air Store, Mode Wheel, Salford

A large cold-air store for the Colonial Consignment Company, of London, is to be erected at Mode Wheel, on the Manchester Ship Canal, for the storage of Australian and New Zealand produce. The architect is Mr. Charles Heathcote, of Manchester. The total cost will be about £50,000. The contract for the foundations has been let to Mr. James Nuttall, of Manchester. [Building News 8 January 1897 page 78] 

Additional cold storage buildings were also built at Mode Wheel in 1897-8 by the Colonial Consignment and Distribution Co. Ltd, later taken over by the Union Cold Storage Co. Ltd, the powerful Vesty trust. After the end of the Plate Venture, the buildings were hardly used by Manchester Liners.

Reference    Manchester Guardian 14 November 1898 page 6vi
Reference    Building News 8 January 1897 page 78