Bow Street
Showbiz: Prince Williams will be at the Baftas
...Academy Film Awards. Here is what guests can expect at one of the most glamorous bashes of the year: Bow Street in London's Covent Garden is being shut to traffic and transformed...
Bow Street Runners
...of Drury Lane by Julia Golding and Sovay by Celia Rees feature the Bow Street Runners in the story. Bow Street Runners appear in some of the Aubrey-Maturin series novels by Patrick...
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Bertha Clayden
...appointed Superintendent in charge of women police in 1930, Clayden remained as Woman Inspector at Bow Street. On 30 April 1934 she was promoted to Sub-Divisional Inspector, the first...
Bow Street Magistrates' Court
...early 1800s saw a dramatic increase in number and scope of the police based at Bow Street with the 1805 formation of the Bow Street Horse Patrole, which covered edge of London and was the...
1749 in Great Britain
...July - British settlement of Halifax , Nova Scotia is founded. Henry Fielding becomes magistrate at Bow Street, and first enlists the help of 'thief takers '. While in debtor's prison,...
Douglas Webb (police officer)
...Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). In 1952, Webb was promoted Chief Superintendent commanding Bow Street division . In 1953 he transferred to West End Central and in...
Patrick Colquhoun
...him to achieve what Henry and John Fielding failed for their Bow Street detectives. Unlike the stipendiary system at Bow Street, the river police were full-time, salaried officers...
Bow Street
...looking north. The former Bow Street Magistrates' Court building is centre left. Bow Street is a thoroughfare in Covent Garden, Westminster , London. It features as one of the streets...
Long reins of the law: Do we still need a Mounted Branch of the Metropolitan Police?
...might initially conclude, an intimidating force. It's a far cry from the branch's beginnings back in 1760, when Bow Street magistrate John Fielding first thought of mounted patrols to...
Abbey Road sign to go under 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer'
...London on its cover. Westminster Council is auctioning 42 other West End signs, including ones for Bow Street and Covent Garden. A new enamelled steel Abbey Road sign is about...
Pc Yvonne Fletcher: colleague's fury at decision not to extradite her killer from Libya
...should have been outside the Libyan embassy at all that day. The pair were community officers based at Bow Street police station, in Covent Garden, rarely venturing as far as the...
