Outside the police station on Beech Road circa 1925

Trying to make sense of an old photograph is not always easy.  

But that is all part of the fun.

Now the caption on this photograph of the police station on Beech Road has no date but the historian John Lloyd thought it might be around 1925.

I bet there will be someone out there who could help, and I minded to ask the Greater Manchester Police Museum.*

But in the meantime I am more intrigued by the names which appear on the original picture.

P.C Butler

Only four have been identified by J.McNicholls who owned the photograph and they are; on the extreme left, PCSingleton, followed by PCButler, and in the centre Frederick George Ross and R.Burgesss next to last on the right.

It’s not much to go, and nothing has come up yet on any of the four.

But I am hopeful.  After all there are the police records which might help, and there is always the remote possibility that someone will know of them.

* Greater Manchester Police Museum, 57A Newton Street, http://www.gmpmuseum.com/

Picture; from the Lloyd Collection