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  • Strategies
    • Manchester’s New Corporation and Watch Committee
    • Operational Needs
    • Architectural Design
    • 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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Manchester City: A Division

Bridgewater Street  [North] Knott Mill 

18th Feb 1897               Notice of the purchase of land from John Hamill and John Alcock Johnson of premises in Bridgewater Street for £4,057.17.6.

6th May 1897                LUSC: site for the PS and pound between Bridgewater St, Barton St, Worsley St Estimate £3,600 but requires the ejection of the tenants in houses currently in the site.

13th May 1897              Sale of building materials from cottages £80

2nd Sept 1897                LUSC: Tenders Messer’s Burgess and Galls. £3,455 [not the very cheapest]

30th Sept 1897               LUSC: Complaint received from Mr Warburton who tendered £3,280 thus a saving of £175 to the taxpayer and asking why with all the other public commissions he had performed he was not trusted.

19th May 1898               LUSC: Bridgewater St PS - removal of  half of the time of the Clerk of Works.
                                           Heating apparatus tender Samuel Sanders £44 [3rd cheapest].

29th Sept 1898               Now ready for occupation. Transfer of caretaker from Water St City Pound to Bridgewater St.

1st Dec 1898                    LUSC: Dog kennels require additional netting prior to additional bars.

25th Jan 1899                 Complaint of public nuisance re dogs’ barking at the City Pound at Bridgewater St by the landlord of dwellings on Barton St and Worsley St.

9th Feb 1899                   The investigation into the dog barking nuisance recommends the daily removal to the Dog’s Home Harpurhey to reduce fees and inconvenience and cost to the WC.

23rd Feb 1899                To place a glass roof over the Bridgewater St PS yard and slight alterations to the stables, and with accommodation provided at two stalls at Goulden St, this would provide sufficient accommodation for horses, vans and conveyances for all requirements.
                                           That the station be connected by telephone and opened for the reception of prisoners

6th April 1899               Alteration tenders required.
                                          'Pinfold' charges at the City Pound £50.
Pinfold is a word used from the previous century and means a keep for animals. Of note is that the 1849 OS map shows a pinfold at the rear of Cavendish Police Station or Town Hall.

21st April 1899              LUSC Enquiry into a ‘right of  light’ regarding adjoining premises.
                                          Tenders for the glass roof - £150 Burgess and Galt.

19th Oct 1899                Proposed windows to be ‘broken out’ on Barton St and Worsley St and the approved plans to protect the ancient lights over the opposite properties.

7th Dec 1899                 Alterations tender - £152 Mr H Bridge.

1899                                 Caminada’s report details sale of Knott Mill to the GNR and the erection of Bridgewater Street PS [North] for £4,000, ‘ for which not a single prisoner could be found for months after its completion in 1898’.

1st Feb 1900                   LUSC: New bath and a wc.

1st March 1900             Painting and repairs required.- Dean & Co £42.10

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: £8,555     

2012                            Premises have now been demolished and converted into offices and flats with only the thin front elevation façade remaining. 

See the link to the Our Manchester website for more photographs including the rear elevation. 
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