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City
Police
Headquarters
The Manchester Police
Headquarters presents a grand Portland stone front to Southmill
Street.
 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 above
the Bootle Street Police Station.
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