Lancashire Prisons

Lancashire Prisons

HMP Liverpool
HMP Preston
Kirkdale Prison
Liverpool Borough Gaol

Prisons in Lancashire

HMP Walton, 68 Hornby Road, Liverpool
This prison was built in 1854, but many improvements made since that date.
Well known for prisoner Peter Allen, who with John Wally at Strangeways were the last men to be hanged in 1964.

Kirkdale Prison
At the county sessions in Preston, it has been resolved, that towards the carrying into effect resolutions of the Courts of Annual Session 1866, authorising the General Finance Committee of the county to borrow £35,000 for altering, enlarging, and repairing the county prisons at Preston and Kirkdale, to approve of the mortgage of the rates for these purposes for the sum of £8,000.
Source: The Builder 1868 Vol XXVI 19th September 1868 p693
Submitted by Alan Longbottom

HMP Appleton Thorn, Warrington, Lancashire
This prison based on the dormitory and huts design, and able to accommodate 311 prisoners.

Wigan - police station and cells
At the next quarter-sessions of the peace for the county, the following resolution is to be moved. That a plot of land containing 340 square yards or
thereabouts, situated at Ince in the division of Wigan, be taken on lease for the term of 999 years, at a yearly rent of £5-13s-4d. and that a police station and strong-rooms for the temporary confinement of prisoners be erected thereon;
and that for this purpose a sum not exceeding £890, be granted out of the police-rates of the division of Wigan.
Source: The Builder 1868 Vol XXVI 2nd May 1868 p.325
Submitted by Alan Longbottom

HMP Manchester, Southall Street, Manchester
Otherwise known as "Strangeways" built in 1869.

Pendleton Town Hall, Salford
The new Town Hall for Pendleton is now completed, and arrangements will shortly be made for the formal opening of it. It has been erected from the designs of Mr. Alfred Darbyshire, architect. The first stone was laid on the 22nd of
November 1865....
The contract was let to Cochrane & Co of Manchester for £9,245; the total cost, however, by improvements and additions, will exceed £10,000 exclusive of fittings and furniture.
On the ground floor are the offices for the transaction of the district business, such as for the overseers, and collectors, surveyor, and two large
committee-rooms. The police department contains a dwelling for the inspector, police-office,charge-room, parade-room, and three cells..
Source: The Builder 1868 Vol XXVI 952 pp 25th January 1868 p.059
Submitted by Alan Longbottom

Preston House of Correction
A range of 150 cells for male prisoners and a new hospital were recently erected at the Preston House of Correction, and a range of 72 other cells for females has been just completed from plans of Mr. Hughes of Preston, architect, the contractor being Mr. Bickerstaff of Preston, and the clerk of the works Mr. Chappell.
The contract for the last mentioned cells has been completed for a sum less than the amount of the accepted tender, some alterations in the work having been made during its progress which has led to larger deductions than extras. The original
contract was £6,017, and the bills paid amount to £6,005.
Source: The Builder 1869 Vol XXVII 28th August 1869 p.695
Submitted by Alan Longbottom.

HMP, Castle Hill, Lancaster [1913]
George Joseph Arnold, Governor
Arthur Stanley Barling, Medical Officer
Rev. Stanley John Hersee, Chaplain
John Tunstall Sanderson, Clerk to visiting Justices.

Rawtenstall New Police Court
A new police court is now in course of erection in this place; the plan comprises a court-room, with retiring rooms for the magistrates and solicitors; three cells for prisoners, with open yard; police-office, house for the sergeant, and rooms for policemen on duty.
The cells are heated with hot-water, the air from the outside passes over the warm pipes into the cells, and escapes by a ventilator in the roof. The outside of the building is faced with stone. The buildings have been designed by Messrs
Maxwell and Tuke, architects, and are expected to be ready for occupation by next Midsummer.
Source: The Builder 1869 Vol XXVII 11th December 1869 p.993
Submitted by Alan Longbottom.