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City
Police Headquarters
This building, presenting a grand
Portland stone front to Southmill Street, was built in
the 1930s as the headquarters of the city police.
An article on the Greater Manchester Police website,
dated August 1, 2014, explains that when the police
moved into this building it was, " ... state of
the art at the time" however, "Bootle
Street police station is not fit for modern policing
and over the past few years the building has been
slowly decommissioned as police moved to the new
divisional headquarters in Newton Heath. It is
expected that Bootle Street will close permanently
when the last staff leave in the autumn."
In August of 2014 the Manchester Evening News announced that Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs had formed a partnership that had plans to redevelop a block of land between Albert Square and Deansgate that included the former police station. The project involved the construction of offices, bars, restaurants and a four or five-star hotel  Behind this Portland stone block the rest of the building is made of pale bricks. There is an interior courtyard with access from Bootle Street.   The image below was
taken in the courtyard in the 1960s. The
policeman is admiring the Triumph sports cars.
 (The image above is shown with the permission of the Greater Manchester Police Museum and Archive. If you follow this link you can see more of the historic photographs in their Flickr Photostream.) The Pevsner guide indicates that the
building was opened in 1937 which is three years after
the foundation stone was laid.
 The sign on the building
indicates that this is "A Division Headquarters".
 The images below were
taken on the Bootle Street side of the building.
The blue light is next to the entrance of the Bootle
Street Police Station.
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