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...
Claudius George Algar was the elder child of Walter Algar (b.1830) and Mary A...
Law lecturer in the Polytechnic of Central London, killed, aged 29, in the Lo...
Solicitor. Born Norfolk. 1891 finds him living in Buckhurst Hill. 1901, Churc...
High Court Judge. Came from Lincolnshire. From Plymounth Law Review we lear...
