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just been scouring on of my old street maps from the late 1960's and it says Pol Sta at Duke St/Nelson St/Berry St.
must admit I walked past there today and don't recall seeing anything , can anyone shed any light please?
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There was a police station in Duke St. the front door was up a few steps, I remember seeing a cop propelling someone up them with his feet hardly touching. Where have the real cops gone?
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Proud Scouser, with a dabbling of Welsh and Irish.
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Quincy, It was on the south side of Duke St, top half. Can't remember exactly where Chris48 might know or Phillip.
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You're not thinking of the Bridewell in Campbell Street, just off Duke Street?
I'm sure you know that that closed comparitively early.
I'm not an expert on police stations, but do have a good collection of old maps, and I can't see one in Duke Street, but I've no maps of that area from the 1950s or 1960s.
There was a fire station right next to the last surviving back-to-back houses in Duke Street, and the Duke Street/Berry Street area was a cooperage for yonks.
I remember it from the 70's Phillip.
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the map is around 1967/68
Proud Scouser, with a dabbling of Welsh and Irish.
bore yourself silly at my Flickr page...anorak central!
Re Cuffs: I've just checked a pic from Jan 2007, and some of the brickwork was painted red. So in one year it's been painted twice. I guess the cream colour wasn't popular.
http://www.narpo-merseyside.org.uk/framephotos.htm
I had a little look at the NARPO website and found under Miscellaneous Photographs, a small pic of the one in Aigburth Vale. It is the building to the right of the small building that is there today. Here's an excerpt:
Aigburth Vale Police Station. Described in the 1905 Chief Constables Annual report as:
'A make-shift station for part of Garston sub-district.
Duke Street: This Police Station also gets a mention on the NARPO website.
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Those two doors are still there today. The NARPO website describes them: This is all that is left of the old Seel Street Transport Section garage.
The website also mentions another Duke Street building which was between Cornwallis Street/Kent Street. There is a Sapporo restaurant there today (or it's where the flats are today, just before). I'll check as thinking about it, the restaurant is around where the old corporation yard, used for storing old street-lamps, used to be.
Last edited by marky; 03-09-2008 at 09:15 AM.
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