Free Trade Hall, Peter Street
22-23 December 1940 · Manchester, Greater Manchester
View this record on the map →- Date
- 22-23 December 1940
- Record type
- Historic bombing site
- Location
- Manchester, Greater Manchester
- Position accuracy
- Confirmed site (fixed, well-known landmark)
What happened
Manchester's principal concert hall, built on the site of the Peterloo massacre at St Peter's Fields, was gutted during the Christmas Blitz and stood as an empty shell for years afterwards.
Casualty note
No casualty figure is recorded for this building. The 684 dead is a city-wide Christmas Blitz total.
Also worth knowing
A new auditorium was built behind the two surviving façade walls to a design by city architect L. C. Howitt, reopening in 1951.