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    • Domestication
    • Rationalisation 1898
    • Civic Pride and Cleansing the City
  • Police Estate
    • Introduction: Police Estate
    • Manchester's first expansion 1838/9
    • Sir Charles Shaw and the Watch Committee 1839-1845
    • Operational Replacements from 1846
    • Strategic Requirements 1860 - 1885
    • Manchester's Second Expansion 1885
    • Manchester's Third Expansion 1890
    • Rationalisation of the Police Estate 1898
  • Police Personnel
    • Introduction: Police Personnel
    • A Policeman's Lot 1872.
    • A Policeman's Lot 1885-1901
    • Police Matrons
    • Jerome Caminada
  • Police Stations [38] & Maps
    • 1838/9 Map 1 [11 PS] >
      • Manchester Town Hall Police Office King Street.
      • Deansgate Police Station and lock-up Knott Mill
      • Ridgefield Station House off John Dalton Street – City
      • Swan St Police Lock-up - New Cross
      • Oldham Road Police Station - New Cross
      • Kirby St - Ancoats
      • Cavendish St Town Hall - Chorlton on Medlock.
      • Great Jackson St (Park Place) Town Hall Hulme.
      • Hanover St jct Edward St Smithfield Market
      • London Rd/ Brook St, - Piccadilly.
      • Allum St, Ancoats
    • 1839-1845 Map 2 [2 PS] >
      • Fairfield Street Police Station - Ardwick
      • Moss Lane Station House - Hulme
    • 1846-1859 Map Fig 3 [4 PS] >
      • Harpurhey Village
      • Cheetham Hill PS Temple
      • Grove St/ Bury New Rd Broughton
      • Livesey Street PS. New Cross
    • 1860-1884 Map Fig 4 [6 PS] >
      • Albert Street PS - City
      • Goulden St PS - Collyhurst
      • New Town Hall Lever St
      • Willert St PS Collyhurst
      • Fairfield St (East) Ardwick
      • Newton St PS - City
    • 1885-1889 Map 5 [4 PS] >
      • Brook St P.S. Bradford
      • Monmouth St P.S. Rusholme
      • Cannel Street P.S. Ancoats
      • Derby St P.S. Stangeways
    • 1890-1897 Map 6,7,8 [9 PS] >
      • 1890 Map 7 [7 PS] >
        • Moston Lane P.S. Harpurhey
        • Clarendon Rd P.S. Crumpsall
        • Newton Health P.S. Oldham Road
        • Openshaw P.S. Ashton Old Road
        • South St P.S. - Longsight
        • Lowe St P.S. Miles Platting
        • Belle Vue St P.S. Gorton
      • 1891-1897 Map 8 [2] >
        • Bridgewater St P.S. (Southside) 1892/7
        • Bridgewater St P.S. (Northside) 1897
    • 1898-1903 Maps 9, 10 [2 PS] >
      • Mill St P.S. Beswick
      • Whitworth St P.S. in London Road Fire Station
  • Statistics
    • Table 1 Manchester Police Stations and Buildings 1794 - 1906
    • Table 2 Expenditure Police Stations & Lock-up Houses 1852 – 1879
    • Table 3 Manchester Police Establishment and Offences 1858-1901
    • Table 4 Prisoners at Manchester Police Stations 1897 - 1898.
    • Table 5 Manchester Population, Rates, Police 1839-1901
    • Table 6 Manchester Crime and Census Statistics 1881 - 1901
    • Table 7 Manchester Rateable Values 1839 -1901.
    • Table 8 Report into Manchester Extension 1890
    • Table 9 Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham Police 1892
  • Bibliography
    • Bibliography
    • Primary Sources
    • Secondary Sources
    • Other Bibliographies
Victorian Police Stations
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By 1962 the Belle Vue British Legion were utilising the old station house at Belle Vue St. Note the extra front window exactly matching the original two either side, but replacing the old Lancashire County 'Police Station' inscription and the date.
By 2012  the street and premises remain as a social club. 
Picture
Manchester City Surveyors Plans 1900-1910 photocopy held at GMP Museum & Archive: Old Police Buildings.

Ardwick: C Division

Belle Vue Street, Gorton, 


June 5th 1890                C. C reports on the 24th Articles of the Provisional Order of the Local Government Board re the amalgamation and take over of the the police Stations; Blackley, Crumpsall, Gorton, Miles Platting, Longsight, Openshaw and Newton Health form the County.

Nov 27th 1890                Repairs to Lock-ups inspection:

Dec 31st 1890                 LUSC: only two cells at this station.

July 23rd 1891               Twinquennial valuation of properties owned by the W.C only: Not assessed.

Sept 8th 1892                 Painting £10.

19th Oct 1893                 H.M.Gov tax assessment of the Belle Vue St and South St PS. An appeal against the property tax by the Town Clerk.

26th July 1894               The cells are infested with bugs and the prisoners complain of them. All steps including paraffin oil, carbolic acid, painting and new beds have been tried to no avail.

6th Sept 1894                 Plans for additional cells and alterations to include 205 yards of superficial land and also additional vacant land behind the station be acquired on reasonable terms.

17th Oct 1895                 Poor rate assessment appeals; Cavendish St £216.15.0, Belle Vue St £13.10.0, South Street £10.5.0, Goulden St £184.8.0, Park Place £10.0.0, as premises used for the residence of a police officer and his family such parts are rateable. At that time Cavendish St not occupied and an Inspector and his family were at Belle Vue St and a Constable and his family at South St.

20th Feb 1895                 Visit of the LUSC – requires painting and beautifying and remove offensive smells. Repair to flag staff and lightening conductor.

27th Feb 1896                 City surveyor’s plans for additional cells and alterations to erect a mortuary and pound behind the station to be approved and adopted.

26th March 1896            Revision of drainage to place the building on a sanitary condition- not to exceed £100

21st May 1896                  LUSC report: painting £49

21st May 1896                 Quinquennial Valuation  and Inventory of Furniture of properties of the WC.
                                            £896.0.0                                           £27.16.1.

19th May 1898                 LUSC: £60 estimate for small painting jobs by men in the premises

19th May 1898                 City Surveyor to be instructed to obtain an estimate of the cost of fixing of glass fanlights instead of perforated iron ones at the various police stations. [believed this is to the cell doors such as Fairfield St PS] Tender £126

27th Sept 1898                 Chief Constable Peacock’s report re police stations: [see separate personnel page]
                                             Closure of following stations except for prisoners in emergency – Newton St, Fairfield St, Lowe St, Brook St, Ashton Old Road, Belle Vue Street. To build new stations at Mill St Bradford.

1901                                     Caminada’s report details station as unnecessary with the building of ‘a sub-station in the most thickly populated part between Hyde Road and Stockport Road’.

1st March 1900                 A new bath required at the station. £33 Mr Ercon

29th March 1900              LUSC: The substitution of a self acting w.c in lieu of those provided in the cells of the various police stations.

15th May 1901                   Quinquennial Valuations: £924.

Dec 11th 1930                     Sold by the Town Clerk.

2012                                       Street and premises remain as a social club. Note: original front door lintel remains seen from Belle Vue St.

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