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Part 4 : Heritage Mart
In order to stimulate demand for Salfords underused
Heritage buildings a new publication is conceived A sister magazine
to the used car catalogue Autotrader, Heritage Mart uses a similar
method to allow potential users to locate a suitable heritage
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Heritage Mart catalogues all the listed buildings in Salford, containing
a photo, a brief description of it's major attributes and current location.
The magazine also contains a brief history of the building moving trend
with examples from Salford and across the world. Building moving companies
also place adverts in Heritage Mart, so one you've chosen a building and
picked a new site, you can make some calls and get a quote.
It is prescient that Salford should be first to witness the resurgence of
building moving activity, because it was here that a famous early example
of building moving took place. Agecroft Hall, the former manor of Pendlebury,
was a fine example of a half-timbered Tudor house. In the 1920s, after several
years of dereliction, the Hall was sold at auction and bought by an American
couple Mr & Mrs Williams. They had the building carefully dismantled and
shipped out to their home town of Richmond, Virginia, where it stands to
this day.
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