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    • Manchester’s New Corporation and Watch Committee
    • Operational Needs
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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
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Manchester City Surveyors Plans 1900-1910 photocopy held at GMP Museum & Archive: Old Police Buildings.

Chorlton on Medlock: D Division


Monmouth Street, Rusholme 



March 15th 1860           County ‘Police Station Rusholme’ Gas Street Vans to be placed in the yard to afford increased facilities for the stoppage of the escape of gas.

1874-6                                 See Police Personnel - A Policeman's Lot for an account of duty at this station

July 27 1876                      Rusholme and its Streets: To the editor of the Manchester Guardian.
                                             Sir, In your paper I have frequently seen complaints about streets in various parts of Manchester not being in the best possible condition...I refer to the inhabitants of Rusholme in general and Monmouth Street in particular. For years there has been talk of widening and improving this end of the street and yet a new police station is being erected so close to the roadway that two carts will not be able to pass without a collision. This will make future widening , if not impossible, very costly...
                                             E.M. 25 July 1876

1879 Slater’s                    : before No 43 Police Station E. Pye, Sergeant : A photograph of this fine officer is listed on the excellent Rusholme and Victoria Park Archive website by Bruce Anderson http://rusholmearchive.org/website-introduction

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.

Oct 29th 1885                   Valued at £1350 at 4% interest

Nov 5th 1885                    To beautify and repair £48

Dec 24th 1885                  To improve with 4 cells. To pull down cell 1 for a corridor and provide 3 new cells to replace kitchen and yard.  New top of cell and corridor lights. Tender £348

May 20th 1886                 Valuation of LUSC properties in accordance with the resolution of the Committee Standing Order of the Council. £1348.

May 27th 1886                 Repairs to heating apparatus £20

July 21st 1887                   Unreliable builder but work now made good

Feb 9th 1888                     Boiler needs repair.

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

July 23rd 1891                  Twinquennial valuation of properties owned by the W.C only: £1,348

April 14th 1892                 Four WCs required at station £25.

1895 Slater’s                      : Monmouth St:  25
                                                                              Police Station: William Read Policeman
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21st May 1896                   Quinquennial Valuation  and Inventory of Furniture of properties of the W.C.
                                              £1,272.0.0                                        £68.19.3

19th May 1898                   LUSC: C.Cons to fix the rent for the house attached to Monmouth St PS. Erection of one stall stable and small pound for stray dogs etc and reconstruction of the ambulance shed in a new position. Reconstruction of the cell benches and w.c’s in the cells. Painting of the charge office reserve room men’s day room, bathroom, bedroom and exit. Tender £49

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.

1899                                      Caminada’s report stated, ‘Monmouth St could be closed at once’.

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: £1,341.

15th Aug 1901                    Supt. Bentley retires form service after 41 years having resided at Monmouth St PS free of rent and taxes of coal and fuel. Not to be penalised for this in the graduation of his pension.

2012                                       Building now demolished and street renamed Claremont Road.


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