Primary Sources
Manuscripts
Finance and General Purpose Committee Minutes 1840 -1842 (Greater Manchester County Records Office with Manchester Archive M/9/30/2/4).
Manchester Women’s Christian Temperance Association and Police Courts Mission, Executive minutes Volume 1 1880. Greater Manchester County Records Office with Manchester Archive. M286/1.
Manchester Watch Committee Minutes from 1839 – 1903 Vol.1-31 Greater Manchester County Records Office with Manchester Archive. M/9/30/1-31).
The National Archives Census Records 1841- 1901 (www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/census-records.htm).
Sir Charles Shaw ‘Returns relating to the establishment of a Police Force in Manchester 1840’. Greater Manchester Police Museum and Archives/Law Section/Incorporation Reports.
Printed Sources
Caminada, J. Twenty five years of detective life, (Manchester: Heywood 1899). Clarkson, Charles T & Richardson, J. H. Police!, (London: Field & Tuer,1889).
Engels, The Conditions of the Working Class in England, (London. Lawrence & Wishart, 1892).
Local Government Provisional Order (No 16). 1890 A bill to confirm a provisional order of the Local Government Board relating to the City of Manchester. (http://parlpapers.chadwyck.co.uk).
Manchester Extension Act 1885: The London Gazette 14 August 1885. Manchester Historical Maps (http://manchester.publicprofiler.org).
Manchester Local Image Collection (http://images.manchester.gov.uk).
Manchester Town Hall : Reproduction of the 1877 opening brochure from the original William Morris Press Ltd. (Manchester: City of Manchester Press 1977).
Parliamentary elections (redistribution) Bill (No 134). 1884-85 A bill for the redistribution of seats at parliamentary elections, and for other purposes relative thereto. (http://parlipapers.chadwyck.co.uk).
Peacock, Sir Robert. (1900) Police officer’s duties, (Manchester: Blacklock & Co, 1900).
Peacock, Sir Robert. (1908) Police Instruction Book, (Manchester: Heywood, 1908) - Greater Manchester Police Museum and Archives/Police Reports.
Pigot’s & Slater’s Commercial Directories of Lancashire, 1822, 1834, 1840,1841,1850,1863,1879 &1895 (http://www.historicaldirectories.org)
Police Expenditure. Return to an address of the Honourable House of Commons dated 14 March 1881. (http://parlipapers.chadwyck.co.uk.).
Scholes Manchester and Salford Directory of 1794, (www.historicaldirectories.org).
Wheeler, James. ‘Manchester: its political social and commercial history’, (London: Whittaker, 1836).
Newspapers
London Gazette 1885 & 1890 on line, 5 Nov 2012.
Manchester Evening News 1868-1919.
Manchester Times 1835-45.
Manchester Courier 1827- 1916.
Manchester Guardian – online, 15 Sept 2012.
The Observer – online, 15 Sept 2012.
The Times - online, 15 Sept 2012.
Maps
Adshead’s Ward Map of Manchester 1851 (Published by Joseph Adshead, 45 George Street, Manchester) (Digital Archives CD Edition).
Goad Maps: Insurance Plan of the City of Manchester 1886-1936. (Digital Archives CD Edition).
Lancashire Map XCVI, Sheet 14, 1893, (Greater Manchester County Records Office with Manchester Archive. M/9/60/1/6).
Ordnance Survey Maps (The Godfrey Edition) Lancashire Sheet 104 15 inch Series 1889-1932.
Ordnance Survey Maps (The Godfrey Edition) Manchester Large Scale 36 inch Series 1848-9.
Ordnance Survey Maps Town Plan of Manchester & Salford Scale 60 inch Series 1848-9, (Digital Archives CD Edition).