Police Collection (page 16)

Woman police officer Beatrice Wills, London
Portrait photo of Beatrice Wills (nee Wakefield), an early woman police officer. She joined the force in January 1919, and is seen here wearing the Stanley Uniform, introduced in that year

Two early women police officers with dog, WW1
Two early women police officers (on the left is Lilian Maud Newell, who joined the force at the start of the First World War), standing on a lawn with a small dog. Date: 1910s

Vine Street Police Station, Westminster, London. Date: circa 1910

Rochester Row Police Station, Westminster, SW London. Date: circa 1905

Harrow Road Police Station, West London. Date: circa 1910

Scene in the High Street, Exeter, Devon
Scene in the High Street of Exeter, Devon, on a sunny day, with buses, cars and pedestrians. Date: circa 1960s

Liverpool General transport Strike 1911
Most of the summer of 1911, dockers, railway workers and sailors, as well as people from other trades went on strike, paralysing Liverpools commerce. Transforming trade unionism and Merseyside

Queue de Luxe, illustration by William Heath Robinson
Queue de Luxe (Luxury Queue), with upper class people waiting for a bus, illustration by William Heath Robinson. Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J. C

William Heath Robinson interrogated in France, WW1
An autobiographical sketch by William Heath Robinson, published in his memoirs, My Line of Life, illustrating an incident at St. Nazaire when he visited the American Army in France

Provincial Police Orphanage, Redhill - Dormitory
Provincial Police Orphanage, Redhill, Surrey. Dormitory with beds and lockers

Suffragette Grace Roe Arrest 1914. Grace Watney Rose (1885-1979) was arrested in May 1914 when police raided the W.S.P.Us headquarters Lincolns Inn House

Suffragette Deputation Black Friday 1910. Leaflet no. 75, issued by the W.S.P.U entitled, Plain Facts About the Suffragette Deputations shows suffragette Ada Wright (C1862-1939)

Peers entering Westminster Abbey for Coronation
Peers in their robes, entering Westminster Abbey to take their places for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953

Inmates of Belmont Workhouse, Sutton, on their way to prison
Inmates of Belmont Workhouse, Sutton, being escorted to prison after rioting and fighting with police. Date: 1910

Union Workhouse and polices station at Caxton, Cambridgeshir
The Caxton and Arrington Union workhouse (left) alongside a local police station on the Old North Road, Caxton, Cambridgeshire. Date: circa 1930

Sir Charles Tegart (1881 - 1946) Colonial police officer and anti-terrorism and security specialist. Tegarts career began in Calcutta during British rule where he rose the position of Commissioner of

Oman - Northern Frontier Policeman Date: circa 1950

150th Anniversary of the Bow Street Runners
PC Carol Price chats to PC Dave Edwards with his horse, and PC Stephen Cass. Carol Price was the last policewoman ever to wear this uniform on the streets of London

Indian police force - Punjab
Indian police - Punjab - (from left, in marching order) A sergeant, a Constable, a Native Officer and another Sergeant. Date: 1905

Police Station at Cherat - NWFP. Cherat is a hill station, immediately above the village Chapri and Saleh Khana in the Nowshera District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan

The Transit of Venus - Comic Postcard
A comic postcard depiting a rotund woman (a very classical frame!) being transported home from the pub by two stretcher-bearing Bobbies

Traffic Policeman at Heyls Corner, Hamilton, Bermuda. Date: circa 1963

Combined Civil Defence exercise, WW2
Civil defence rescue workers carrying a casualty from the exercise site. A policewoman and a nurse are with the rescue team

Craven Park Harlesden police station. London

Jack Johnson, boxer, going to court, London
The American heavyweight boxer Arthur John Johnson, better known as Jack Johnson (1878-1946), nicknamed the Galveston Giant, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion between 1908 and 1915

Prince of Wales Hospital Carnival, Tottenham, London
Watched by mounted police, three spectacularly dressed collectors pose for their photo during the annual Prince of Wales Hospital Carnival in the Tottenham area of North London

DI Jill McTeague, Arts & Antiques Squad, with necklace
DI Jill McTeague of the Arts & Antiques Squad of the Metropolitan Police, holding a stolen necklace which has been recovered

Metropolitan Police officers in the station canteen
A group of Metropolitan Police officers relaxing in the canteen at West End Central police station during a tea break. Included in the photograph are PCs Ian Fletcher, John Foxley, Arthur Webb

Met Police Commissioner, Operation Bumblebee
The Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Paul Condon (now Baron Condon, b 1947), giving a talk about Operation Bumblebee, a campaign for burglary prevention launched in 1993. Date: circa 1993

Communist demonstration in Vienna, Austria
The security forces try to prevent a group of communist demonstrators advancing in the direction of Kolingasse and Horlgasse in the Schottenkreuzung area, Vienna, Austria. Date: 15 June 1919

The Australian bushranger, Frank Gardiner arrested at Apis Creek, Queensland. 1863

Metropolitan Police photographer at work
A Metropolitan Police photographer at work, focusing his attention on a car engine

Metropolitan Police headphones and radio

Police at a Tonypandy colliery, Glamorgan, South Wales
Numerous policemen (nicknamed Devonshires) on duty at a colliery engine house in the Tonypandy area of Glamorgan, South Wales, during the riots of 1910

Metropolitan Police Helicopters
A pair of Metropolitan Police Helicopters. In the foreground is one of the first three Metropolitan Police Bell 222 air support helicopters (G-METC)

The Old Gaol, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire
Buckinghams castle-like town prison was erected in 1748. It was closed following the nationalisation of the prison system in 1877

Met Police officer at Piccadilly Circus, London
A Metropolitan Police officer on duty at Piccadilly Circus in Central London, speaking on his walkie talkie radio. There are neon advertisements for Coca Cola, Cinzano, Skol, Volkswagen

Met Police cadets on parade
A group of Metropolitan Police cadets on parade, with a brass band playing in the background

Patients playing bar billiards, Medical Centre, Hendon
Scene at the Metropolitan Police Medical Centre, Hendon, north west London, showing three patients, two in dressing gown and pyjamas, one in shirt and trousers, playing bar billiards in a rest room

Traffic accident in Brandon Grove, Ilford
A night time traffic accident in Brandon Grove, Ilford, Essex. The bollard in the middle of the road says Keep Left, but this car kept a little too far to the left

Police in the Blitz
A Metropolitan Police officer dressed for the London Blitz during World War II

Police Uniforms 1969
Police officers wearing experimental uniforms from 1969 - Not general issue. Metropolitan Police Date: 1969

Police Officer Uniform
Police officer in uniform. Metropolitan Police

Thames Police Station
The police station for the Thames River Police, London, with a Patrol Boat moored beside it

MATCHMAKERS DEMO / 1871
THE MATCHMAKERS PROCESSION This demonstration in London against working conditions led to reforms, but also to charges of police brutality

Bashful model and six policemen
The Bashful Model. It takes six policemen to restrain a suspect long enough for him to be photographed

Police Officer & Stray
Police officer walking stray dog to lost and found home in London Metropolitan Police

Russia / 1918 / Cheka Prison
Prisoners held by the Cheka, a secret police force established in December 1917 to investigate counter- revolutionary crimes

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