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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Alfred Robert Henry Saunders, BA
Acting co-churchwarden at St Saviour's Church, Ealing, 1909. Alfred Robert Henry Saunders was born on 12 March 1853, in Charterhouse, Middlesex (now Greater London, the seventh of the ten children...
1 memorial
Metropolitan Streets Act 1867
The Metropolitan Streets Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 134) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom applying to the City of London and all places and parishes then within the jurisdicti...
1 memorial
Richard Brandon
King Charles I's alleged executioner. Buried in St Mary Matfalon churchyard.
1 memorial
W. H. Church
Alderman in the Borough of Hammersmith in 1948. Our colleague Andrew Behan has researched this man: William Henry Church was born in 1876 in Knightsbridge, a son of Joseph Church and Mary Ann Chur...
1 memorial
Hackney parish watch house
A watch house was an early form of police station and prison. Criminals were held here temporarily.
1 memorial
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