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.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
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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Bloody Assizes
A series of trials which started at Winchester in the aftermath of the Battle of Sedgemoor, which ended the Monmouth Rebellion. Further trials took place at Salisbury, Dorchester and Taunton, and i...
1 memorial
E. E. Woods
Alderman in the Borough of Hammersmith in 1948. Our colleague Andrew Behan has researched this man (and found the wonderful photo) : Edward Ernest Woods was born on 13 February 1896 in Chelsea, th...
1 memorial
Richard White
Mill Hill Acton provides: "Richard White was a celebrated lawyer. His practice, White and Blake (joined at various times by third partners Ainge, Houseman and Tylee), was at 14 Essex Street, off th...
1 memorial
Mathew Philip Crosse
Mathew Philip Crosse was born on 18 May 1914 in Wandsworth, London, the son of Samuel Crosse (b. circa 1854) and Alice Edith Crosse (b. 1885). His birth was registered as Matthew P. Cross in the 2n...
Person, Armed Forces, Emergency Services, Journalism / Publishing, Law
1 memorial
Sir Horace Perkins Hamilton, GCB
Horace Perkins Hamilton was born on 20 November 1880 at 34 Hardinge Road, Ashford, Kent, the only child of Horace Hamilton (1845-1917) and Elizabeth Hamilton née Kitching (1847-1911). His birth was...
1 memorial
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