Stables and Cart Shed, Hardman Street, Failsworth

Overhead stables for eighteen horses, and a cart-shed below, in Hardman Street, Failsworth, and adjoining the existing stables, were brought into use on November 28th, 1908, when the horses and lorries engaged in the coal department vacated the temporary wooden stables behind the Newton Heath premises for their new quarters. This extension was sanctioned on November 21st, 1907. The plans for the buildings were prepared by Mr. A. H. Walsingham, and the work was carried out by the building department under the direction of Mr. Cleasby, the foreman, with the assistance of sub-contractors. The cost was over £2,000. [Failsworth Co-operative Society Jubilee History page 328]

Reference           Failsworth Industrial Society Limited: Jubilee History, 1859-1909 by Ogden, J. H page 238 and illustration