The Greater Manchester Police Museum is a former police station converted into a museum and archives detailing the history of policing in
Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county and combined authority area in North West England, with a population of 2.8 million; comprising ten metropolitan boroughs: Manchester, Salford, Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tam ...
, England. It was home to
Manchester City Police
The Manchester City Police (also known as the Metropolitan Manchester City Police and from 1842 to 1853 the Manchester Borough Police) was, from the early 19th century until 1968, the territorial police force of the city of Manchester, in northern ...
and then its successors
Manchester and Salford Police
Manchester and Salford Police was a police force in England from 1 June 1968 to 31 March 1974. It was created as a merger of the Manchester City Police and Salford City Police and covered the adjacent county boroughs of Manchester and Salford. ...
and
Greater Manchester Police
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement within the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester in North West England.
, Greater Manchester Police employed 6,866 police officers, 3,524 memb ...
from 1879 until 1979.
Upon its conversion to a museum in 1981 the interior was redesigned to reflect its past and now serves as a reminder of Victorian policing. The building was
Grade II listed in 1994 as ''Former Newton Street Police Station''.
Location
Located on Newton Street in Manchester's
Northern Quarter it is a short walk away from Piccadilly Gardens and Piccadilly railway station.
See also
*
Listed buildings in Manchester-M1
Manchester is a city in Northwest England. The M postcode area, M1 postcode area of the city includes part of the city centre, in particular the Northern Quarter (Manchester), Northern Quarter, the area known as Chinatown, Manchester, Chinatown, ...
References
External links
Official Website
{{Greater Manchester Police
Grade II listed museum buildings
Grade II listed buildings in Manchester
Museums in Manchester
Law enforcement museums in England