A museum is opening within the cells of one among London’s first police stations.
ow Avenue Police Museum will inform the story, inside station cells and dealing rooms, of London’s first crime-fighters.
Guests can spend time in “the tank”, the massive cell the place these arrested for drunken behaviour had been positioned.
The police station and courthouse opened in Covent Backyard in 1881 and the station closed in 1992.
Bow Avenue Police Museum (Bow Avenue Police Museum/PA)
Individuals arrested by cops at Bow Avenue had been held in a single day and tried on the Magistrates’ Courtroom subsequent door.
It additionally handled extradition proceedings, terrorist offences and circumstances associated to the Official Secrets and techniques Act, earlier than shutting its doorways in 2006.
The nation’s latest unbiased museum will characteristic “tales of investigations, arrests and justice being served, from 18th century crime-fighting” onwards.
Opening subsequent yr, it can discover a string of well-known Bow Avenue circumstances, together with suffragette trials and the extradition case of former Chilean president Augusto Pinochet.
The museum opens subsequent yr (Cristian Barnett)
Those that discovered themselves earlier than Bow Avenue’s judges included the Kray twins and Oscar Wilde.
The museum will inform the story of the Bow Avenue Runners, the nation’s first organised pressure, and the Metropolitan Cops who walked the streets of Covent Backyard of their footsteps.
Curator Jen Kavanagh stated: “We have now labored particularly carefully with officers who served at Bow Avenue and, because of this, the museum is wealthy with recollections of life at a singular place in a particular a part of city.”
Bow Avenue Police Museum supervisor Vicki Pipe stated the venue will probably be “an ever-changing and welcoming place for discussions and debates concerning the historical past of policing”.
The museum will sit inside the new NoMad London Resort.
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