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Unseen for years - photos of Manchester's lost department store Paulden's through the decades

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These fascinating images unearthed from our archive show a lost Manchester department store that was loved for decades. An iconic city centre fixture for generations, Paulden's marked an a landmark turning point in shopping and building design when it opened more than a century ago.

With roots dating back to the 1860s, it offered a new and luxurious shopping experience to the people of Manchester and was the first in the UK to be fitted with electric lighting, escalators, lifts and plate glass windows. Read More: Unseen for decades - the pictures that will take you back in time to Stockport in the 70s The radical-thinking store owners were also some of the first to look into setting up a delivery service - using cars.

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