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Bailey Between New Bailey Street and Irwell
Street and close to the River Irwell is an area of land
that has an interesting history. In the 18th
Century it was home to the New Bailey Prison.
After the demolition of the prison, the site became a
railway goods yard, and then in the 1980s, after the
goods yard was removed, a collection of neo-Georgian
buildings were erected called Ralli Court. In 2014
Ralli Court was swept away as part of the redevelopment
of this part of Salford.
The first new building added to the
site was the New Bailey Car Park.
  Here it is during construction.
   In this image you can see the excavation of the site prior to redevelopment. The foundations exposed are those of the former New Bailey Prison.   At the other end of the site, where Ralli Court used to stand, is an office building named One New Bailey.     Here it is under construction in
November of 2015 when I took the images below.
    ************************** - A brief history of the site - In 1787 the New Bailey Prison was
constructed on this land. (You can read much
more about the New Bailey Prison in the "Gone Forever"
section of this web site) The prison closed
circa 1869 after a new prison was built in
Strangeways.
   Excavation conducted prior to the
latest development of the site exposed the remains of
the old prison.
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In the aerial photograph below, shown with the permission of English Heritage, you can see that in 1953 the site (indicated by the red line) was a railway goods yard.  ******************* In the 1980 three linked blocks
of Georgian style office buildings were erected on
the New Bailey Street end of the site. Among
the occupants of the complex was Ralli Solicitors.
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