Pictures have been revealed of the decaying insides of an iconic building which once dominated the skyline of Manchester.
The seven-storey Toast Rack, formerly known as the Hollings Building, was built in Fallowfield in Manchester in 1960.
It was first used as the Domestic Trades College and became part of Manchester Polytechnic, before being used by the Manchester Metropolitan University until the closure of its Hollings Campus in 2013.
Since then it has stood empty and decaying but was recently visited by urban explorer Lost Places & Forgotten Faces who snapped incredible pictures of the inside, reported the Manchester Evening News.
Some images showed weeds growing through the floor of the abandoned building.
On the outside graffiti has been scrawled over its walls.
Another picture showed a carpet which was rolled up and left behind when the last people left the building.
The walls around a stairwell look chipped and damaged and could use a hoover.
Anyone walking around the upper floors will have to take care as large parts of the floor is missing, although large signs have been erected to warn people.
Matthew Holmes, The Derelict Explorer, previously told the MEN: ““For me it’s the history of it, it’s the building itself that’s important.
“So if I can highlight and show the building off in the best manner I can, then more people can reminisce.
“It can connect to more people and I think, especially in a time when so many people have memory loss and Alzheimer's and problems like that, if I can just bring back a memory to one of those individuals then I’ve done my job really.
“It was a bit of a weird one really, because normally I’d go for pre-Second World War, you know going backwards from the 1940s in terms of the building age and architecture and design.
“But there was just something about the Toast Rack that stood out. It was a very unique design, I’ve never seen anything like it before.”
Earlier this month images revealed the ruins of an abandoned psychiatric hospital which was the scene of a shocking massacre during World War II and suffered a scandal involving inhumane techniques to treat patients.
The infamous hospital was involved in a gory massacre during World War II which saw the brutal death of a group of more than 70 soldiers.
The ill-fated soldiers were of the fascist Socialist Republic of Italy, who had been held in a nearby stadium used as a prison camp.
