Developers hope guide to 20th-century buildings will soon be available in other cities
“As a prewar building it must have blown people’s minds,” says Jack Hale, admiring the glassy magnificence of the Express building in Manchester. “In the same period you were still getting stone, classical buildings and then this appears.”
His colleague Eddy Rhead agrees. “It must have been like a space-ship landing. To the average Mancunian it would have been out of this world.”