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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W. H. Church
Alderman in the Borough of Hammersmith in 1948. Our colleague Andrew Behan has researched this man: William Henry Church was born in 1876 in Knightsbridge, a son of Joseph Church and Mary Ann Chur...
1 memorial
Cannon Hall
A Queen Anne mansion. The name probably refers to the whole estate at the time, not just the house. About 1730, when the house was used as a court, a lock-up was built into the garden wall. Gerald ...
1 memorial
Lieutenant Felix Ernest Jones, MC
Felix Ernest Jones was born on 27 May 1888, a son of William Jones (1855-1925) and Madeline Mary Jones née Weiss (1857-1914). His birth was registered in the Edmonton registration district, Middles...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Adrianne Uziell-Hamilton
Daughter of Marcus Grantham. Married 1952 Mario Uziell-Hamilton. Autodidact barrister and circuit judge. Left school aged 16 due in part to her parents' divorce. Mother of Fabian Hamilton, Labo...
1 memorial
Whitecross Debtors' Prison
This was on the southern most section of Whitecross Street, immediately north of St Giles Cripplegate, considerably further south than the plaque location. Designed by William Montague and built i...
1 memorial
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Sir Frank Brangwyn
W6, Queen Caroline Street, 51, Temple Lodge
Brangwyn leased this house 1900 - 1937/38.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Sir Ebenezer Howard
Founder of the garden city movement. Born 62 Fore Street. Travelled to America in 1871 where he tried farming and was in Chicago at the time that it was being rebuilt after a great fire. The new su...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Ernest Wilfred Hyde
Auxiliary Fire Serviceman killed in the air raid on Ricardo Street School.
War dead non-military, WW2
2 memorials
Walter Charles Hart
Auxiliary Fire Serviceman killed in the air raid on Ricardo Street School.
War dead non-military, WW2
2 memorials
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