Aigburth Police Force The Plan To Establish One In 1842

[ChrisGeorge]

The same system of "Watch, Scavengers and Lamps" must have existed in Aigburth prior to 1842?

Hi Daz

You are probably correct.

Of course before Sir Robert Peel established the Metropolitan Police force there were the Bow Street Runners that kept order in the city of London. That system of policing was established in 1749 by the novelist Henry Fielding. I imagine other jurisdictions around the British Isles had their own similar forms of early policing.



Chris

[Quentin_Sharples]

I don't think a history of the police in Liverpool exists.

The fire service has been covered recently, and the early fire stations were attached to police stations.

I don't know anything about police stations in Aigburth, apart from knowing Lark Lane police station was built in 1885 (thanks to the datestone).

Bridewells (police cells/stations) are shown on early maps, and the nearest one to Lark Lane was in Essex Street (1863 Newland's map).
The 1863 map doesn't include Garston, but there was a police station in St Mary's Road, Garston in the 1860s (the building survives).
Heald Street police station replaced this.