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
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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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Lord Bingham of Cornhill
Born as Thomas Henry Bingham on 13 October 1933, his birth was registered in the Marylebone registration district. Appointed to the High Court Bench (Queen's Bench Division) in 1980; a Lord Justic...
2 memorials
Corporal Harold John Strangward
Harold John Strangward was born on 30 January 1884 in Marylebone, London, the youngest of the six children of Robert Strangward (1840-1919) and Emily Strangward née Hawkins (1845-1905). His birth w...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Thomas Godfrey Baynes
Clerk to Bexley Urban District Council. Thomas Godfrey Baynes was born on 15 August 1865 in Milton, Kent. He was the second of the six children of Thomas Clarke Baynes (1836-1903) and Elizabeth Su...
1 memorial
Sir Thomas Plumer
Judge and politician. Called to the bar in 1778, he acted for the defence in a number of important cases. In Parliament, he sat in the pocket borough of Downton in Wiltshire, and was promoted to At...
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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