Former Police Station - Bridgewater Street and Barton Street in Castlefield



This apartment complex on the corner of Bridgewater Street and Barton Street, in Castlefield, was once a police station for Manchester's A Division. 



The map above is shown with the permission of Eric Rowland of Artus Family Website.

Below is an image of the police station shown here with the permission of the Greater Manchester Museum and Archive.  If you visit their Flickr Photostream you can see more historic images.



It was built in 1898-99 and if you follow the links below you can see it under construction and then 68 years later when it was still in use as a police station.

Police Station Under Construction 1898 Police Station Under Construction 1898
Police Station Under Construction 1899 Police Station 1966

The red arrow in the aerial photograph below, dated 1953, points out the police station.



As you will have gathered from the old photographs, the police station has been somewhat truncated to accommodate the conversion into a residential complex.  However some of the original features remain including the Manchester Council Crest with the motto "Concilio et Labore" which roughly translates as "Wisdom and Effort".