Chorlton on Medlock: D Division
Great Jackson Street/ Park Place, Hulme
Chorlton on Medlock: D Division
Great Jackson Street/ Park Place, Hulme
June 21st 1839 WC resolved to pay half of the rent for the Hulme Constables Office and Lock-ups together with the residence accommodation for the Lock-up keeper
Jan 6th 1840 Included in list of Sir Charles Shaw as a Station House.
1841 Slater’s Hulme Commissioners of Police Church wardens and Overseers 89 Gt Jackson Street Hulme
Dec 2nd 1842 To secure the rooms at the Town Offices at Jackson Lane Hulme as a police station.
May 4th 1843 Now operational.
Feb 22nd 1848 HM Inspector’s report for Sec of State Home Dept into improvements requested to Lock-up accommodations – Cells dank and not warmed nor ventilated. To be wholly discontinued until a new and better Police Station provided. Any person brought to the station who cannot be transferred to Cavendish Street to be detained in the office.
March 13th 1856 To erect additional cells for an additional rental of £12p.a.
Jan 13th 1856 Current cells considered damp and unsafe for placing prisoners for any time and most moved to Chorlton Town Hall. Survey for 3 new cells.
March 15th 1860 Gas Street Vans to be placed in the yard to afford increased facilities for the stoppage of the escape of gas.
April 5th 1860 Hulme Committee enquiring of the W.C regarding the new Town Hall [on City Road] and the amount of accommodation required by the Police and the amount they are prepared to pay in rent. [not an offer that was taken up]
August 9th 1860 Rent and for coal and gas £20.11.5d
April 17th 1862 Hulme Committee sell to W.C extra land where old weigh machine was for £1600
Oct 8th 1863 Approved plans for new police and fire station on Gt. Jackson St and Mr Thompson tender accepted of £930
June 16th 1864 Works commences
May 16th 1867 Require painting and cleaning.
Oct 17th 1867 Following the death of Sgt Brett in the ‘Fenian Outrage’ the LUSC ordered to make arrangements to secure the stations by:-
Plating the doors in iron, wrought iron bars to windows, raise the south walls 5’.
29 Sept 1869 HMIC Inspection reveals: 5 cells, no rooms for lodging accommodation.
Nov 11th 1875 Repairs £84
July 3rd 1890 New entrance gates and oven, with Goulden Street £45.
May 20th 1886 Valuation of LUSC properties in accordance with the resolution of the Committee Standing Order of the Council. £4908
Sept 5th 1889 Survey of Stations owned outright for insurance purposes £925
July 23rd 1891 Twinquennial valuation of properties owned by the W.C only: £4,771
6th July 1893 Lock -Up Sub- Committee report on their visit to Cavendish St and Park Place lock up to examine the closets and lavatory. Also to the Bridgewater St PS where a large number of officers and constables parade for duty. Urinal accommodation should be provided for them.
2nd Aug 1894 Extensive overhaul and closure A report on the drainage indicated the drains were very defective and should be removed as w.c sewage had percolated into the ground causing smells. Suggestion that whilst the floors were up; new cell benches with iron supports, detached from the walls are fitted, a new w.c with a separate flushing cistern, a new hot water system of heating rather than hot air, new concrete floors to the cell corridors with channels and drains to facilitate cleaning, a new w.c in yard to replace the privy, a new w.c in the cell corridor. The station would have to temporarily close as the building was in an unsanitary condition. £70 for the drains and £200 for the additional works.
11th Oct 1894 Tenders supplied and £280 accepted by Mr Riley.
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.
21st May 1896 Quinquennial Valuation and Inventory of Furniture of properties of the WC.
£4,771.0.0. £14.16.13
18th Feb 1897 Consideration by the Sec of State of the permanent removal of troops from Manchester, without the consideration of the Lord Mayor. Namely the removal from Salford Barracks is now under discussion but it is not intended to make a change to the Hulme Barracks.
19th May 1898 LUSC: Painting to the yard and repairing with pitching.
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
8th Aug 1898 An extensive report as to the construction of the socketed pipes 6” diameter and the defective drainage to cost £60.
1899 Caminada’s report stated that a new station between City Road and Chester Road could be used for both A & D Div officers or just Park Place with the closure of Bridgewater St.
14th Sept 1899 The public clock at Park Place, kept in order by Mr J Wright watchmaker at 167 Gt Jackson Street, should now be handed over to the Organ Bells and Clocks Committee for the same attention as to the other public clocks.
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: £4,786 and Fire Brigade quarters £897.
2012 Building and street now demolished for Mancunian way
Great Jackson Street/ Park Place, Hulme
June 21st 1839 WC resolved to pay half of the rent for the Hulme Constables Office and Lock-ups together with the residence accommodation for the Lock-up keeper
Jan 6th 1840 Included in list of Sir Charles Shaw as a Station House.
1841 Slater’s Hulme Commissioners of Police Church wardens and Overseers 89 Gt Jackson Street Hulme
Dec 2nd 1842 To secure the rooms at the Town Offices at Jackson Lane Hulme as a police station.
May 4th 1843 Now operational.
Feb 22nd 1848 HM Inspector’s report for Sec of State Home Dept into improvements requested to Lock-up accommodations – Cells dank and not warmed nor ventilated. To be wholly discontinued until a new and better Police Station provided. Any person brought to the station who cannot be transferred to Cavendish Street to be detained in the office.
March 13th 1856 To erect additional cells for an additional rental of £12p.a.
Jan 13th 1856 Current cells considered damp and unsafe for placing prisoners for any time and most moved to Chorlton Town Hall. Survey for 3 new cells.
March 15th 1860 Gas Street Vans to be placed in the yard to afford increased facilities for the stoppage of the escape of gas.
April 5th 1860 Hulme Committee enquiring of the W.C regarding the new Town Hall [on City Road] and the amount of accommodation required by the Police and the amount they are prepared to pay in rent. [not an offer that was taken up]
August 9th 1860 Rent and for coal and gas £20.11.5d
April 17th 1862 Hulme Committee sell to W.C extra land where old weigh machine was for £1600
Oct 8th 1863 Approved plans for new police and fire station on Gt. Jackson St and Mr Thompson tender accepted of £930
June 16th 1864 Works commences
May 16th 1867 Require painting and cleaning.
Oct 17th 1867 Following the death of Sgt Brett in the ‘Fenian Outrage’ the LUSC ordered to make arrangements to secure the stations by:-
Plating the doors in iron, wrought iron bars to windows, raise the south walls 5’.
29 Sept 1869 HMIC Inspection reveals: 5 cells, no rooms for lodging accommodation.
Nov 11th 1875 Repairs £84
July 3rd 1890 New entrance gates and oven, with Goulden Street £45.
May 20th 1886 Valuation of LUSC properties in accordance with the resolution of the Committee Standing Order of the Council. £4908
Sept 5th 1889 Survey of Stations owned outright for insurance purposes £925
July 23rd 1891 Twinquennial valuation of properties owned by the W.C only: £4,771
6th July 1893 Lock -Up Sub- Committee report on their visit to Cavendish St and Park Place lock up to examine the closets and lavatory. Also to the Bridgewater St PS where a large number of officers and constables parade for duty. Urinal accommodation should be provided for them.
2nd Aug 1894 Extensive overhaul and closure A report on the drainage indicated the drains were very defective and should be removed as w.c sewage had percolated into the ground causing smells. Suggestion that whilst the floors were up; new cell benches with iron supports, detached from the walls are fitted, a new w.c with a separate flushing cistern, a new hot water system of heating rather than hot air, new concrete floors to the cell corridors with channels and drains to facilitate cleaning, a new w.c in yard to replace the privy, a new w.c in the cell corridor. The station would have to temporarily close as the building was in an unsanitary condition. £70 for the drains and £200 for the additional works.
11th Oct 1894 Tenders supplied and £280 accepted by Mr Riley.
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.
21st May 1896 Quinquennial Valuation and Inventory of Furniture of properties of the WC.
£4,771.0.0. £14.16.13
18th Feb 1897 Consideration by the Sec of State of the permanent removal of troops from Manchester, without the consideration of the Lord Mayor. Namely the removal from Salford Barracks is now under discussion but it is not intended to make a change to the Hulme Barracks.
19th May 1898 LUSC: Painting to the yard and repairing with pitching.
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
8th Aug 1898 An extensive report as to the construction of the socketed pipes 6” diameter and the defective drainage to cost £60.
1899 Caminada’s report stated that a new station between City Road and Chester Road could be used for both A & D Div officers or just Park Place with the closure of Bridgewater St.
14th Sept 1899 The public clock at Park Place, kept in order by Mr J Wright watchmaker at 167 Gt Jackson Street, should now be handed over to the Organ Bells and Clocks Committee for the same attention as to the other public clocks.
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: £4,786 and Fire Brigade quarters £897.
2012 Building and street now demolished for Mancunian way
