The street and buildings that stand today were all built as part of the rebuilding since the 1996 IRA bombing of the city centre. The block of buildings to the west are on the site of the former Victoria Street and Victoria Buildings which were aligned differently.
Cathedral Street is an older street to the east of Manchester Cathedral and further to the north.
Footnotes
^Occupying one building: Selfridges is in the northern division and Marks and Spencer the southern
Sources
Hartwell, Clare (2001) Manchester. (Pevsner Architectural Guides.) New Haven: Yale U. P. ISBN0-300-09666-6