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
Here stood the Old Watch House or “Cage”, erected in 1765, removed in 1912. B...
Edward Arthur Last Smith was born on 22 March 1884 in Torquay, Devon, the sec...
A watch house was an early form of local police station. Soon after the forma...
