Police Station

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Introduction
Issued in 1999, the model of the Sherlock Holmes Museum on Baker Street is sold there. Many private eyes start out as policemen but this ceramic has the reverse happening! Apart from a few Victorian Post Offices with the title of Police Station, this is the only known painting.

Hearing at Bow Street Magistrates Court in 1808. By its close in 2006 many famous accused people had passed through including Casanova, Oscar Wilde, the Kray twins and General Pinochet. 

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 Built in 1815, 239 Baker Street was a lodging house from 1860-1934, like the one Sherlock “lived in” at No 221B.

Hazle Ceramics
Police Station
Limited Painting of 80
on London Sherlock

Police History
Crimes were once reported to local constables. In 1749, as Magistrate of Westminster, the novelist Henry Fielding began the Bow Street Runners. In 1829 Robert Peel founded London’s Metropolitan Police. Countrywide forces formed during 1837-39. Poor working conditions gradually improved. Photography from the late 1800s, fingerprinting from 1901 and DNA testing in 2001 have created great advances.

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A mounted Metropolitan Police Service officer outside Buckingham Palace, London in 2005. 

 A once familiar blue lamp at Bow Street Police Station which closed in 1992. Built during the late 1800s, the Magistrates Court above, that occupied other houses in Bow Street, became part of this new station.