St Michael's Works, The Black Barn
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Demolished at the turn of the century (the beginning of
'The Noughties'),
these somewhat rickety buildings at the top of Bond Street, opposite
the
side of County Hall carried the two sets of lettering shown:
'ST. MICHAEL'S WORKS' and
'The BLACK BARN'
The rear of St Michael's (which fronts Upper Brook Street) Church Hall
is
in the background of the right-hand photograph above (central in the
picture
below), with both buildings in the foreground.
The site in Bond Street, now cleared and converted to -
you guessed it -
a car park.
If we'd been building this site twenty or more years ago, we could have
included the long-abandoned The Mitre pub a few yards up on the corner
with
St Helens Street (now occupied by Mitre House), an unpreposessing
building
which bore its name on the wall until demolition.
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