I collect police stations.*
And so, I was pleased when Andy Robertson sent over this one of the old Lancashire Constabulary police station on Hyde Road in Gorton.
I have added quite a few to the collection, including the one on Chorlton-cum-Hardy, and others in Patricroft, Failsworth and Levenshulme.
They all conform to a standard design with variations, and all have that distinctive stone cladding with the date when they were opened.
By contrast those put up in Manchester were more pedestrian, with brick walls and less adornments.
I don’t know exactly when it closed, but I am guessing it will be part of the rationalizing of Manchester force in the1950s and the 1960s. By 1969 it was occupied by Beswick Manufacturing Ltd, Children's wear mfrs, and between 2008 and 2012 by Granite Kitchens, and was then converted into residential use.
Location; Gorton
Picture; Police Station Hyde Road, 2020, from the collection of Andy Robertson
*Police Stations, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/search/label/Police%20Stations
I have added quite a few to the collection, including the one on Chorlton-cum-Hardy, and others in Patricroft, Failsworth and Levenshulme.
They all conform to a standard design with variations, and all have that distinctive stone cladding with the date when they were opened.
By contrast those put up in Manchester were more pedestrian, with brick walls and less adornments.
I don’t know exactly when it closed, but I am guessing it will be part of the rationalizing of Manchester force in the1950s and the 1960s. By 1969 it was occupied by Beswick Manufacturing Ltd, Children's wear mfrs, and between 2008 and 2012 by Granite Kitchens, and was then converted into residential use.
Location; Gorton
Picture; Police Station Hyde Road, 2020, from the collection of Andy Robertson
*Police Stations, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/search/label/Police%20Stations
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