Alternative Names Manchester New Bailey, Salford House of Correction
Prison Type Local Prison - House of Correction/Bridewell
Jurisdiction County
Date opened 1787
Date closed 1868
Location New Bailey Street, beside River Irwell Salford
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Lancashire
Alternative Names Manchester New Bailey, Salford House of Correction
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction County
Date opened 1787
Date closed 1868
Location New Bailey Street, beside River Irwell Salford
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 53.4819769 Long. -2.2561971
County Lancashire
Year 1818
Annual Committed - 2296
Daily Greatest number - 752
Year 1823
Annual Committed - 2729
Daily Census - 604
Year 1828
Annual Committed - 6145
Daily Census - 514
Year 1833
Annual Committed - 4328
Daily Census - 492
Year 1838
Annual Confined - 6244
Daily Census - 574
Year 1843
Annual Confined - 6528
Daily Census - 678
Year 1848
Annual Confined - 7270
Daily Daily average - 651
Year 1853
Annual Confined - 5038
Daily Daily average - 436
Year 1858
Annual Committed - 5344
Daily Daily average - 584
Year 1863
Annual Committed - 4901
Daily Greatest number - 676
Archive name: Lancashire Archives
Catalogue ref: QGR/4/9, 20, 24, 28, 30, 40
Collection: Lancashire Quarter Sessions
Description: Chaplain's reports
Dates: 1824-1846
Archive name: Manchester Archives & Local Studies
Catalogue ref: GB127.Tracts/P.457.11
Collection: None
Description: C. F. Bagshawe - the Chaplain's report of the New Bailey House of Correction, presented to the Magistrates of the Hundred of Salford
Dates: 1847
Archive name: Lancashire Archives
Catalogue ref: QGR/4/10
Collection: Lancashire Quarter Sessions
Description: Governor's reports
Dates: 1824
Archive name: Lancashire Archives
Catalogue ref: QGR/4/2, 8
Collection: Lancashire Quarter Sessions
Description: Governor's returns
Dates: 1823-1824
Archive name: Lancashire Archives
Catalogue ref: QGR/4/11, 21, 25, 29, 31
Collection: Lancashire Quarter Sessions
Description: Surgeon's reports
Dates: 1824-1831
Archive name: Lancashire Archives
Catalogue ref: QGR/4/1, 6, 16, 18, 22, 26, 32, 34, 36, 38
Collection: Lancashire Quarter Sessions
Description: General Reports
Dates: 1823-1840
Archive name: Lancashire Archives
Catalogue ref: QGR/4/13
Collection: Lancashire Quarter Sessions
Description: Amount of prisoners earnings and cost of provisions consumed
Dates: 1824
Archive name: Lancashire Archives
Catalogue ref: QGR/4/4
Collection: Lancashire Quarter Sessions
Description: Account of money received for work done by prisoners
Dates: 1823
Archive name: Lancashire Archives
Catalogue ref: QGR/4/41
Collection: Lancashire Quarter Sessions
Description: Report on Prison discipline and accommodation
Dates: 1852
Archive name: Manchester Archives & Local Studies
Catalogue ref: GB127.MISC/518
Collection: None
Description: Notes on the New Bailey Prison. Includes details of the removal of bodies of the Manchester Martyrs
Dates: 1887
Archive name: Lancashire Archives
Catalogue ref: QSP
Collection: Lancashire Quarter Sessions
Description: Series includes a vast amount of material on the administration of the county prisons, including: accounts and other financial records, Visiting Justices' reports; governors', surgeons', chaplains' and schoolmasters' reports; returns of prisoners; and staff appointments, salaries and dismissals. The catalogue contains detailed summaries at item level.
Dates: 1648-1908
Archive name: Lancashire Archives
Catalogue ref: QGR/4/3, 7, 14, 19, 23
Collection: Lancashire Quarter Sessions
Description: Reports of Visiting Justices
Dates: 1823-1829
Archive name: Manchester Archives & Local Studies
Catalogue ref: GB127.Broadsides/F1846.10.A and B
Collection: None
Description: Broadside, New Bailey Prison. Includes accounts, amount of prisoners' earnings, and cost of provision consumed in the New Bailey Prison (April to July Sessions).
Dates: 1846
Archive name: Bury Museum and Archives
Catalogue ref: GB126. Radcliffe LA(S4)24.7
Collection: None
Description: Chaplain's journal of the New Bailey Prison, Salford (1825)
Dates: 1825-1827
Archive name: Lancashire Archives
Catalogue ref: QGV/4/7
Collection: Lancashire Quarter Sessions
Description: Applications for the situation of Task master in the New Bailey
Dates: 1836
Archive name: Manchester Archives & Local Studies
Catalogue ref: GB127.M600/2/1-3
Collection: Records of Belle Vue Prison, New Bailey Prison and Strangeways Prison
Description: General Registers (male)
Dates: 1859-1869
Archive name: Manchester Archives & Local Studies
Catalogue ref: GB127.M600/2/4
Collection: Records of Belle Vue Prison, New Bailey Prison and Strangeways Prison
Description: Nominal Register, small debts (male and female)
Dates: 1863-1868
Archive name: Manchester Archives & Local Studies
Catalogue ref: GB127.M600/2/5
Collection: Records of Belle Vue Prison, New Bailey Prison and Strangeways Prison
Description: Register, male and female, misdemeanants
Dates: 1847-1872
Archive name: Manchester Archives & Local Studies
Catalogue ref: GB127.M600/2/6
Collection: Records of Belle Vue Prison, New Bailey Prison and Strangeways Prison
Description: Female Register
Dates: 1862-1867
Archive name: Manchester Archives & Local Studies
Catalogue ref: GB127.M600/4/1-1A
Collection: Records of Belle Vue Prison, New Bailey Prison and Strangeways Prison
Description: Felony Register - Bolton and Salford Sessions (Male) & Manchester Assizes [probably New Bailey Prison and Strangeways Prison]
Dates: 1863-1876
Archive name: Lancashire Archives
Catalogue ref: QGR/4/5
Collection: Lancashire Quarter Sessions
Description: List of prisoners under different avocations
Dates: 1823
Archive name: Devon Heritage Centre
Catalogue ref: 152M/C1817/OH31
Collection: Addington family, Viscounts Sidmouth
Description: Manchester - Address of W. D. Evans Esquire at the New Bayley Court-House, Salford. On discharging the prisoners who were apprehended on account of an illegal assembly at Manchester (10 March 1817) (printed).Â
Dates: 1817
Archive name: Lancashire Archives
Catalogue ref: QGR/4/12
Collection: Lancashire Quarter Sessions
Description: Statement of number of felons for trial
Dates: 1824
Archive name: Manchester Archives & Local Studies
Catalogue ref: GB127.M600/2/7-8
Collection: Records of Belle Vue Prison, New Bailey Prison and Strangeways Prison
Description: Female Description Books
Dates: 1859-1867
Archive name: Lancashire Archives
Catalogue ref: QGB/4/2-4
Collection: Lancashire Quarter Sessions
Description: Conveyancing, leases and agreements regarding prison land and buildings
Dates: 1832-1881
Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Kirklees
Catalogue ref: KC311/54/5
Collection: None
Description: Rolls and assessments, including enlarging House of Correction and repairing bridge in Salford. Ordered by Lancashire Quarter Sessions.
Dates: 1814-1815
Archive name: Manchester Archives & Local Studies
Catalogue ref: GB127 (images)
Collection: None
Description: Engravings and watercolours of the New Bailey Prison, including in 1804
Dates: 1829