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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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The bay windows have been removed and the Sergeant's house has lost its City crest.
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Manchester City Surveyors Plans 1900-1910 photocopy held at GMP Museum & Archive: Old Police Buildings.

Cheetham: B Division 

Newton Health PS Oldham Road. 



June 5th 1890                C. C Wood 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.

March 1891                     Insurance valuation of £350.

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

1895 Slater’s                   Oldham Road: 627 Police Station

1895 Slater’s                   Oldham Road: 627 Police Station

21st May 1896                 Quinquennial Valuation  and Inventory of Furniture of properties of the WC.
                                            £1,929.0.0                                     £30.14.0

4th March 1897             Issue of the boundary wall: The original deed dated 4/8/1857 conveying the land to the Clerk of the Peace in Lancashire [stipulated] for a four yard passageway at the northern end of the plot half of which on the [police] plot. However, Mr Councillor T Milnes of No 675 Oldham Road has erected a number of new houses at 625 [next door] and he has carried the building of the closet across the nine foot boundary wall into the end of the station.

6th May 1897                  LUSC: Meeting with Councillor Milne over the boundary wall.

3rd March 1898             Ongoing negotiations: Mr hall owner of number 608 requests 1’6” of WC land to permit a 9 foot  passageway due to the size of his premises which were ‘inconveniently cribbed’. WC resolve to let the land to Mr Hall.

19th May 1898                LUSC: Resolve to allow two yards to the WC and one yard to Mr Hall not as a tenancy but as a covenant which Mr hall will pay for the concession to the Corporation.

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

21st July 1898                  Mr Hall to pay £25 to extend one yard into the passageway now to be three yards wide.

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: £1,960.

1906   Of note from the photographs and Museum records is that as early as the beginning of the 2othcntury the Sergeant's quarters had been sold off as the professionalising Manchester City Force found it was no longer requiring to supply housing for long service officers such as the Station Sergeant or Inspector as they bought or rented their own family homes. 

2012    Premises converted into the current Post Office.


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