Before an effective police force was established each local council or vestry organised their own watchmen. The watch house was where they would hold prisoners before they appeared in court. Like the cells in police stations we have today.
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Old Watch House - E17
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Old Watch House - E17
Here stood the Old Watch House or Cage, erected in 1765, removed in 1912. B...
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George Jeffreys
Judge. First Baron Jeffreys, known as the 'Hanging Judge'. Born atActon Park, near Wrexham in Denbighshire. He became Lord Chief Justice in 1683 and Lord Chancellor in 1685. Most famously, he pres...
1 memorial
Lieutenant Commander James Dawbarn Young, R.N.V.R.
Qualified as surveyor and then as a lawyer. Public spirited and worked with the Claremont Central Mission (we think this was a nationwide religious charitable organisation working with young peopl...
War dead, WW1
3 memorials
Tottenham Outrage
One winter Saturday morning two armed Russian/Latvian anarchists, Paul Hefeld and Jacob Lepidus, attempted to seize the wages cash (瞿80) being delivered to the Schnurmann Rubber Factory in Chesnut...
3 memorials
George Goldney-Cary, B.A.
Barrister. 1893 co-churchwarden of St Mary's Willesden Green. 1894 lived in Stonebridge Park and was involved in the development of Wallwood, Leytonstone. He was born on 28 February 1840 in Pimlic...
1 memorial
Dulwich Village stocks
Sadly, our image does not show the Dulwich stocks, but some in Kent.
1 memorial
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