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Deansgate junction with Knowsley Street and Oxford Street
Go north into Knowsley Street
![[Into Knowsley Street]](knon.gif)
This will take you into the Market Hall and up to St. George's Road and the
craft Centre. The red coloured tower on the left down the street belongs to
the Victoria Hall, the dark, square tower in the distance is of the craft
centre.
Go south into Oxford Street
![[Into Oxford Street]](oxfsou.gif)
Leading past the steam engine into Victoria Square, you'll get a closer look
at the engine itself.
![[Exterior of department store]](whittak.gif)
This is Whitakers, an independent department store. The whole building
belongs to the store, and it has a basement too. It sells fashions and
housewares. The buff coloured part of the building on the right used to be a
public hall, built in 1912 called the Aspin Hall. Whitakers have a web site at
http://www.whitakers.org.uk/
Go west to end of Deansgate
![[view west to end of Deansgate]](dgjknw.gif)
To Moor Lane, past Bolton Little Theatre. You can just see the spire of St.
Paul's church which is on Moor Lane, to the right of the building on the
left of this picture. If you turned right, down Central Street was the
Antiques centre,
which has now moved to Great Moor
Street.
Go east along Deansgate
![[looking east]](dgjkne.gif)
Which will take you past Market Street and to the junction with Mealhouse Lane
and Bridge Street. You can go onto Bridge Street, into the Market Hall, or
further down towards Churchgate.
![[red brick building in narrow street]](centralst.gif)
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Central Street view north July 2000
Down here was the antiques centre,
until it relocated to Great Moor Street.
![[sandstone large building]](whitak2.gif)
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Whitakers Department Store Howell Croft North December 2002
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