Manchester's lost prisons would make Strangeways look like Pontins
manchestereveningnews.co.ukNo doubt, doing a stretch in Strangeways is no walk in the park. But life in prisons that used to serve the city would make even the modern-day HMP Manchester seem like a holiday camp.
HMP Manchester, still known as Strangeways, is one the biggest and most high security category A prisons in the country. With a capacity for over 1,200 inmates, the north Manchester prison has been an imposing feature of the city for over 150-years.
Built in the Victorian era, executions used to take place at the prison before the abolition of capital punishment in the 1960s.
It was also rebuilt following a major riot in 1990. READ MORE: Brilliant photos of Manchester's pubs as we remember them in the 1980s READ MORE: Fun City theme park once promised for Salford would have been massive The rapid increase in population in the Manchester and Salford during the Industrial Revolution saw the need for the new prison.
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