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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Albert Woodfox
Albert Woodfox was an American known as one of the Angola Three (Robert King, Herman Wallace and Woodfox) former prisoners who were held at Louisiana State Penitentiary in solitary confinement for ...
Person, Law, Race Issues, Tragedy, USA
1 memorial
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins
Anthony Hope Hawkins was born on 9 February 1863 at Clapton, Middlesex (now Greater London), the last of the three children of the Reverend Edwards Comerford Hawkins (1827-1906) and Jane Isabella H...
1 memorial
Granville Sharp
Anti-slavery campaigner. Born Durham. 1757 became Clerk in the Ordnance Office. Became involved with the anti-slavery campaign by a personal involvement with an injured slave, Jonathan Strong, a...
1 memorial
King's Bench Prison
Established in medieval times as a place to hold prisoners of the King's Bench court, primarily debtors. It was originally sited in Angel Place, off Borough High Street, just north of what is now J...
1 memorial
Arthur Cohen
Lawyer. Born in Wyndham Place, Bryanston Square, son of Benjamin Cohen and nephew of Moses Montefiore. Studied maths and became the first practising Jew to graduate from Cambridge. Admitted to Inne...
2 memorials
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