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Manchester Gas Works -
Albert Street
As the map segment
below shows, the Manchester Gas Works, Reserve
Station No 1, used to occupy a site between Albert
Street and Lower King Street. The gas works is
long gone as is Albert Street which today is called
St. Mary's Parsonage.
 Here it is again on a map dated 1885.  By the time the map
below was drawn, circa 1888, the gas works was
gone and the site had been converted into a
police station.
 The parade of
Peelers, shown above, is forming up in the parade
ground in the Albert Street Police Station.
The image dates from the 1850s.
(The image above is shown with the permission of the
Greater Manchester Police Museum and Archive.
If you click on
this link you can see more historic images from
their Flickr
Photostream)
A plaque
commemorates the old gas works.
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