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.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
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...
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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...
Sophie Hannah Marguerite Hosking, MBE
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Sir Henry Rider Haggard
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Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins
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Lord Bingham of Cornhill
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RNH - Casualty Department
N7, Manor Gardens, Royal Northern Gardens
See the mosaic for more information about the Casualty Department.
Boudicca / Boadicea / Boudica
Queen of the Iceni. When the Romans arrived in AD 43 her husband, Prasutagus, was ruling the Iceni, the people in East Anglia. The Romans allowed him to continue his rule but when he died their a...
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