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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Marcus Grantham
Member of Middle Temple. Father of Adrianne Uziell-Hamilton. Andrew Behan has established, from the 1939 England and Wales register compiled on the outbreak of WW2, that there was a Marcus Grantha...
1 memorial
Watch House in Hampstead
A watch house was an early form of local police station. Soon after the formation of the Hampstead police force in 1829, prisoners were kept in the Watch House at the top of Holly Walk.
1 memorial
R. J. Buckingham
Mayor of Hammersmith 1946 - 49. Our colleague Andrew Behan has researched this man: Reginald James Buckingham was born on 8 April 1887 in Exeter, Devon. He was the second child and only son of Fre...
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
Borough Compter
Courthouse and prison. The building was part of St Margaret's Church, which was closed during the reformation. It burned down in 1676 and was rebuilt in 1685. The functions moved to a new building ...
1 memorial
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Kingston Spiritualist Church - Foundation Stone 4 - Conan Doyle
KT1, Villiers Road, 40
This is the first reference to the 'angel world' that we've recorded.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Fawcett frieze - 51, Strachey
SW1, Parliament Square
Most statues have plinths, which often carry the identity of the statue but little more. The plinth for this Millicent Fawcett statue is ...
1 subject commemorated
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Sir Francis Beaufort
Admiral and hydrographer (map making for sailors). Developed the Beaufort Scale (for winds) in 1805. Born Co. Meath, Ireland. He kept journals, written in code, and these reveal that, as a widower ...
1 memorial
Well Hall Pleasaunce
SE9, Well Hall Road
Jenny Agutter who played Roberta 'Bobbie' Waterbury in the 1970 film of The Railway Children, took part in the unveiling of the plaque.
10 subjects commemorated,
4 creators
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