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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
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Brook st Police Cells 1904

Ardwick: C Division

Brook Street, Bradford 


Sept 24th 1885             LUSC to liaise with the County Surveyor and Justices the transfer to the Corporation the Police Stations in Bradford Harpurhey and Rusholme as provided by the M/cr City Extension Act 1885.

Station reported completely empty on takeover 30th September.

Oct 29th  1885              Valued at £900. At 4% interest payments.

Nov 5th 1885                 To beautify and repair £22

Dec 24th 1885               To improve with 4 cells. To set back the party wall £’ near to the Town Hall and to permit 3 cells Tender £426

1863 Slater’s                  Police Station: Robert Grimshaw Police Officer.

May 20th 1886              Valuation of LUSC properties in accordance with the resolution of the Committee Standing Order of the Council. £900

May 27th 1886              Repairs to heating apparatus £22

Oct 21st 1886                 Supt Hornsby reports that repairs are necessary to: yard in rough condition, new mortuary required, boarding off the bath to allow further use of the bathroom, partition screen for kitchen facing street, cupboard for constables, heating fails its purpose and heat for the cells escapes into the corridor. Agreed 3160 to repair.

July 21st 1887                Unreliable builder but work now made good.

Sept 5th 1889                 Survey of Stations owned outright for insurance purposes £1,000.

Nov 28th 1889                Lamp required for people to see from Ashton New Road.

July 23rd 1891               Twinquennial valuation of properties owned by the W.C only: £850.

June 15th 1893              Painting tender.

1895 Slater’s                  16 Brooke St  Bradford Town: Hall Public Reading Room, Police Station, Overseers office Registrar Births and Deaths

June 15th 1893             Painting tender.

1895 Slater’s                 16 Brook St  Bradford Town: Hall Public Reading Room, Police Station, Overseers office Registrar Births and Deaths

21st May 1896               Quinquennial Valuation  and Inventory of Furniture of properties of the WC.
                                          £781                                                 £58.0.9

19th Nov 1896               LUSC: Additional piping to the station required £8.17.6.

2nd Sept 1897               LUSC: Conversion of the bedrooms to a kitchen and the kitchen to a parade room. £20.

30th Sept 1897              LUSC: tender of £18 for a fireplace.

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.

1899                                 Caminada’s report details station as unnecessary with the building of Mill Street.

1st March 1900            LUSC: Regarding the Chief Constable’s report to Mr McCabe.
                                         ‘In response to making another report. If the Committee were to put their energies into putting Newton Street and the C Division stations into proper order they would have sufficient work on hand for the present’.
                                          The C. Cons further recommended –
                                          The Mill St PS should now be pushed forward closing Brook St and Openshaw PS the later being let to the Openshaw Board of Guardians. To have a new station near Cornwall St [the future West Gorton PS on Ashton Old Road].

15th May 1901              Quinquennial Valuations: £839.

22nd Oct 1903               Brook St PS and Ashton Old Road PS Openshaw disposed of.

2012                                  Street and premises demolished. Site behind Tony’s Chip shop on Grey Mare Lane opposite the home ground of the 2012 Premier League Champions Manchester City FC, Ashton New Road.




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