Hi Dazza



Excellent find. A very interesting account. I would suggest that this lawlessness occurred about the same time as the unemployment that occurred following the Napoleonic Wars that concluded with the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815 and the Treaty of Paris signed on 20 November 1815 following the defeat and second abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte. The unemployment in Liverpool at the time is the oft-stated reason for Joseph Wilkinson to begin his famous tunnels in Edge Hill -- though the Friends of Williamson's Tunnels website seems to indicate the definitive reason for the tunnels is uncertain.

In any case lawlessness in 1816 does not directly answer the question for the establishment of an Aigburth police force in 1842, although following Sir Robert Peel's establishment of the London Metropolitan police in 1829, various communities began forces of "Bobbies" or "Peelers" and by 1857 all cities in the UK were obliged to form their own police forces.

Chris