Royal Exchange Buildings, 104-108 Grey Street

  • Description

    "Previously Waterstones Bookshop and now an H&M store. It was built in an Italianate style in 1904 for Mawson, Swan and Morgan, stationers, booksellers and art dealers. The shop had its own private street lighting, still in place on Grey Street. Joseph Swan, one of the partners, was inventor of the carbon filament incandescent light bulb [[1679617]]" Photo by Andrew Curtis, 2010.
  • Owner

    Andrew Curtis
  • Source

    Geograph (Geograph)
  • License

    What does this mean? Creative Commons License
  • Further information

    Link: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1681046
    Resource type: Image
    Added by: Simon Cotterill
    Last modified: 2 years, 3 months ago
    Viewed: 257 times
    Picture Taken: 2010-01-24
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