A watch house was an early form of local police station but we've heard it said that this particular watch-house did at one time shelter the guards charged with preventing grave-robbing in the St Sepulchre graveyard. This is the last City of London watch-house standing.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Watch-house in Giltspur Street
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Other Subjects
1 memorial
Lance Corporal Mills
Royal Engineer killed by an exploding bomb while assisting in the attempt to disarm it. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man:Â Lance Corporal Douglas Mills was born about 1...
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Robert John Baggott
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1. Robert John Baggott was born on 10 April 1873, the second of the four children of Robert Henry Lancaster Ba...
War served, WW1
1 memorial
Able Seaman Victor Edmund Bloye
Victor Edmund Bloye was born on 13 August 1920 in St Pancras, London, the youngest of the four children of Herbert Edmund Bloye (1886-1959) and Elsie Mary Bloye née Atherton (1892-1976). His birth ...
War dead, WW2
2 memorials
Colonel John Birch
Soldier and then member of parliament.
1 memorial
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