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- Area:
- Northern Quarter
- Category:
- Best-kept secrets
- Phone:
- 0161 856 3287
- Address:
- Greater Manchester Police Museum, 57A Newton Street
M1 1ES
- Open Times:
- Open 10.30am-3.30pm Tue or by appointment; last admission 3pm.
- Travel:
- Metrolink Piccadilly Gardens/ City Centre buses/Piccadilly rail
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Greater Manchester Police Museum
57A Newton Street
An easily overlooked curiosity tucked into an unfashionable corner of town, this converted former police station – far larger than it looks from the outside, in the appropriate manner of Dr Who’s TARDIS police box – contains early CSI: Miami-style case histories, the original prison cells, haunting Victorian mugshots and cases of grimly inventive confiscated weaponry, all overseen and explained by retired police officers.
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