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MarieM

Copied and pasted from Wikidedia

'The buildings were subsequently dismantled and moved 300 metres northwards to their present location, close to Manchester Cathedral in 1999.[8] The Old Wellington Inn and Sinclair's were rebuilt at 90 degrees to each other and joined together by a stone extension to form two sides of the new Shambles Square'.

As I understand it every element of the structure was given a unique reference and then each building was de-constructed, piece by piece.

Once moved the pieces were put back in the opposite order to which they were removed i.e. the last pieces to be taken down became the first pieces to go back.

As graney says - talented workers