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.