The lost block of flats next to Strangeways where prisoners 'shouted and threw notes' to residents from cell windows
manchestereveningnews.co.ukWhile you can choose your friends you don't often have the same luxury when it comes to who moves in to live next door. Many of us will have had the experience of putting up with dodgy neighbours, but now many can say they spent their childhoods living next to some of Britain's most notorious murderers, rapists and gangsters?
One person who can make that claim is 63-year old Sharon Davies. Between the ages of six and 14, she lived with her parents and older brother in a now demolished block of flats right next to Strangeways, Manchester's category A+B men's prison.
The three blocks of flats were called Lancaster, York and Cornwall buildings. Known commonly as the 'dwellings', they were built right at the end of the 19th century and situated around Higgins and Knowsley Street off Cheetham Hill Road.
The buildings' architect was Henry Shelmerdine, who designed office buildings and tenements throughout Greater Manchester and North West, as well as the extensions to Manchester's Victoria Station.
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