Affleck's Palace

Afflecks (formerly Affleck's Palace) is a building housing an indoor market located at the junction of Church Street/Tib Street and Dale Street with Oldham Street in the Northern Quarter of Manchester in England. Dozens of independent stalls, small shops and boutiques operate in the one building. The building was once occupied by a department store called Affleck and Brown, hence the name. Affleck and Brown was a long-established independent department store but was acquired by Debenhams in the early 1950s who owned it until 1973. It had a good reputation as a credit draper and was known for a good range of cloth for home dressmaking. Affleck's Palace first opened in 1981,the brain child of James and Elaine Walsh, the ethos being a safe...