I'd very much like to know when the blackened buildings were photo'd. Something more precise than "before the 60s"
Also (2015)
Also (2015)
D plates are from 1966, so after that.
In the first image there's a building being constructed next to Manchester Art Gallery, so I'll try to find out when that went up. EDIT eh, it's 75 Mosley Street but I have no idea when it was built.
But I'll observe that the Uni of Manchester buildings photos could have been from 1987 or 1990 -- being when I saw them myself, still near-black on the Oxford Road side.
I was initially going to say 1970 - but apparently 1967 saw both E and F registered cars. I never knew that.