Tuesday 20 May 2014

Reddish Old Police Station


Built of red brick, the old Police Station on Gorton Road, Reddish has been converted into apartments.


Above the doorway, between the words POLICE and STATION, is a coat of arms relating to the Lancashire Constabulary.

The building presumably pre-dates 1901 when Reddish transferred from Lancashire to Cheshire.

Above the coat of arms is a hole which would originally have held the traditional police blue lamp.

A contribution to Ruby Tuesday and Our World Tuesday.

11 comments:

  1. Wonderful vintage building shots and love the inlaid coat of arms for OWT ~

    artmusedog and carol (A Creative Harbor)

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  2. Lovely brick work.

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  3. I really like that coat of arms.

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  4. I think I prefer the look of it as a police station rather than those apartments.

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  5. A lovely old building determined to weather time.

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  6. They don't do public building like that anymore. Shame really.

    Cheers - Stewart M - Melbourne

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  7. We have a lot of old red brick buildings in our part of the country but not many have been made into apartments.

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  8. What a nice old building !

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  9. My police officer grandfather was based her from 1904 until 1930.

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