1: Monotype Garage - used to repair company cars & commercial vehicles until about 1968 employing their own mechanic. Auto Fleet Services takes over the garage in 1979 to service and repair Monotypes fleet of company vehicles
2: Oil Storage Tanks - supplied fuel oil for the Monotype generators - Monotype generated its own electricity until 1982, it then went onto the national grid. The generators were then sold abroad
3: Matrix Building - second machine shop put up just after the second world war
4: Monotype Car Park - new Monotype International building erected on the car park in 1988 - now occupied by Cubic Transportation 2003
5: Dunraven Avenue - built to house managers and employees working for the Monotype Corporation in 1900. The houses were sold to a housing trust during the 1980's, then owners were allowed to buy
6: Gate House (east) - entrance from Honeycrock Lane. Also location of petrol pumps for fuelling company cars
7: Monotype Corporation main office block - added at a later date
8: Monotype Corporation Office block - This was the original office block - the building was extended at a later date (7) - this can be seen by the different coloured brickwork - you can see the original building in the photograph at the botton of the page
9: Power House - this held 2 large generators for generating power and heating for the whole Monotype site until 1982. The generators ran 24/7
10: Works Canteen - Monotype employees in the front and Monotype management in the back with oak paneled walls
11: Main Machine Shop
12: Monotype International Assembly Shop - assembly of the new technology "Lasercomp" as it came on stream around 1976. Monotype International office block is just to the left with the white roof, this is before they built their new headquarters on the Monotype car park
13: Carpentry Shop - supplying all the wood working needs for the whole site
14: Waste Material Store - all the waste products from the machine shops ended up here
15: Monotype Sports and Social Club - bowling green
16: Monotype Sports and Social Club - now known as Perrywood Sports and Social Club
17: Garages / Storage Buildings - including a fire tender, with uniforms and helmets. Garages for company cars
18: Honeycrock Lane - Salfords village housed many Monotype employees
19: Gate Hose (west) - entrance into Green Lane and Salfords railway station - next to the gate house was a barber shop for employees to get a hair cut during the working day
20: Computer Room - one of the last buildings to be erected to house the Monotype main frame computers for accounts/wages ect. The pond can be seen just behind - clay was extracted from here to make the bricks for the Monotype early buildings. The hole left behind became the present day pond
21: Plating Shop - plating and metal treating was carried out here

The photo above shows the early construction on the Main office block (8)

Aerial Photograph courtesy of Alan McDonald - IPA Systems, Perrywood Business Park

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