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.
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Watch House in Hampstead
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Parish Lock-up
Parish Lock-up About 1730, this lock-up was built into the garden wall of Ca...
Other Subjects
Sir Alexander Russell Downer, KBE
High Commissioner for Australia 1964-72. Known as Alick and not to be confused with his son, Alexander John Gosse Downer (b.1951) who was also High Commissioner from 2014 to 2018. Our Picture Sou...
Person, Armed Forces, Law, Politics & Administration, Australia
1 memorial
Learie Constantine
Cricketer and politician. Born Learie Nicholas Constantine at Petit Valley, Diego Martin, near Maraval, Trinidad. As a cricketer, he toured England with the West Indies team in the 1920s and was ev...
Person, Law, Politics & Administration, Sport / Games, Caribbean Islands
2 memorials
Professor Anthony Mellows, OBE, GCSTJ, TD
Anthony Roger Mellows was an English solicitor, academic and British Army officer. Lord Prior of the Order of St John, 2008 - 2014. 1969 he received the Territorial Decoration (TD) awarded for long...
2 memorials
Edward Arthur Last-Smith
Edward Arthur Last Smith was born on 22 March 1884 in Torquay, Devon, the second of the five children of Edward Last Smith (1856-1937) and Emily Phyllis Smith née Dixon (1863-1936). His father was ...
1 memorial
Major Brett Cloutman, VC
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Brett Mackay Cloutman VC MC KC was a British Army officer. Son of A. B. Cloutman. Educated at Berkhamsted School, Bishop's Stortford College and London University where he wa...
War served, WW1
1 memorial
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