The Manchester Police Museum

[poliphilo]

The Manchester Police Museum is housed in the old Newton Street Police Station. it is a very old-fashioned museum, curated by retired policemen who think policing has gone to the dogs since the 1970s. It has a cell block, a tiny magistrate's court  and a powerful atmosphere of stoicism, tears and strongly sugared tea. The resident ghost is known as "Sniffer". 

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[ron-broxted.livejournal.com]

Surprised you weren't nicked for taking photographs.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I did ask permission first. ;)

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

It's too bad they did not preserve old police stations as museums here in Boston. Instead the buildings have been converted into high priced condominiums. Also, the old Suffolk County Charles Street Jail is now the very posh Liberty Hotel.
Imagine! Anything for a dollar!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

How strange to turn a jail into a hotel.

We haven't kept many old police stations. As far as I know there's just this and maybe one other in the city.

[ron-broxted.livejournal.com]

Roscommon jail is a hotel, it has a ghost too.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'd be more surprised to learn that an old jail wasn't haunted

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

I shouldn't say this, but...

I do like Victorian prison architecture!!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I did a tour of Strangeways once. It's like a cathedral.

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

The Victorians probably thought that the underlying principles of both buildings were similar!!

Foucault's work on prison architecture is interesting...