Salford New Bailey Prison

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Overview

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

Prison Info

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

Prisoner Statistics

 

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

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.381
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.26
  • The Third Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1821), Appendix, p.38; Fourth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1822), Appendix, p.31; Fifth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1823), Appendix, p.47; Sixth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1824), Appendix, p.60; Seventh Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1827), Appendix, p.73; Eighth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1832), Appendix, p.22
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1824, XIX.359), p.138; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1825, XXIII.1), p.138; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826, XXIV.1), p.140; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826-27, XIX.365), p.132; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1828, XX.327), p.142; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1829, XIX.1), p.132; Reports and Schedules Pursuant To Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830, XXIV.1), p.127; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830-31, XII.1), p.123; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1831-32. XXXIII.197), p.127; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.1), p.134; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1834, XLVI.1), p.123; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1835, XLIV.225), p.125; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1836, XLII.1), p.80; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837, XLV.1), p.81; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837-8, XLIII.227), p.87; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXXVIII.17), p.82; Reports Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.1), p.92; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1841, XVIII.1), p.94; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXXII.1), p.95; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1843, XLIII.1), p.96; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXXIX.403), p.93; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXXVII.417), p.115; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXXIV.187), p.106; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847, XLVII.297), p.122; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847-48, LII.465), p.124
  • Abstract Return of Establishment and Expenditure of Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.241), p.26
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837, XXXII.499), p.70; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern, Third Report (Parl. Papers, 1837-38, XXXI.1), p.114; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXII.1), p.63; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1841 Session 2, V.1), p.75; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1843, XXV. & XXVI.249), p.42; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Tenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXIV.1), p.118; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Northern District, Thirteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXVI.361), p.23; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Northern District, Fourteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1849, XXVI.167), p.69; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fifteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXVIII.291), p.227; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Seventeenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1852-53, LII.1), p.34; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Eighteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1856, XXXIII.1), p.20; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Nineteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1856, XXXIII.385), p.33; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Twentieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1857, Session 1, VII.313), p.28; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Northern District, Twenty-third Report (Parl. Papers, 1857-58, XXIX.209), p.49; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Northern District, Twenty-fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1859, Session 1, XI.213), p.43; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Northern District, Twenty-fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1860, XXXV.381), p.32; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Northern District, Twenty-eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1863, XXIII.109), p.66; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Twenty-ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1864, XXVI.89), p.24; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirtieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1865, XXIII.257), p.42; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1866, XXXVII.233), p.45; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1867-68, XXXIV.1), p.32

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/448/archives_and_local_history/3808/court_prison_and_police_records/8

Management

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


Finance

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


Daily Business

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


Staff

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


Prisoners

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). 

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


Land & Buildings

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


Images

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