Possibly the first recorded co-operation between Uniform and C.I.D. Departments.
Read more The "F" Division (St. Albans) area car, call sign Foxtrot 3 in 1964 with details of the officers who could drive it
Read more New Constables at Hatfield with their Sergeant (PC 346 William Stilton back row 2nd from right).
Read more Newspaper Report of the Granting of a Pension to P.c. Wilsmore from Ware and a Gratuity to the widow of Insp Draper in May 1913
Read more What was it like to be a Constable in Bishop's Stortford in the middle of the First World War? The first volume of the Bishop's Stortford Archive has been prepared for digitisation (The logbook of Pc Elberton from July 1915 to April 1916)
Read more Constable Herbert Richard Giggins died of influenza.
Read more Village Constable shoots a prisoner for resisting confinement in village lockup.
Read more Constable 139 Alban Henry Freeman born c. 1889 Wheathampstead. Appointed 10/08/1914. Enlisted 10/12/1915 but placed on Section B Army Reserve and returned to Police duties. Mobilised 01/02/1917 Gunner 205985, Royal Horse Artillery who died (possibly from complications from contracting Rubella as there was an outbreak at Woolwich) on 07/03/1917. Remembered with Honour Wheathampstead (St. Helen) Churchyard.
Read more Early Life. Albert William Bolton was born on the 20th February 1883 in Paddington, Middlesex and Baptised on the 10th April. His father, who was also named Albert Bolton, married his mother Emma Went at St James Church, Bermondsey on 7th August 1879. They had 5 children, Ethel Emily born 1881, Albert William, Alice Emma born 1889, ...
Read more Early Life. Alfred Hayes was born on the 2nd October 1886 in St Pancras and Baptised on the 19th December 1886 at Holy Trinity, Marylebone Road, Westminster. His father, John Hayes, married his mother Ann Davies, a widow, in the last quarter of 1883 at Swansea. She had previously been married to a Thomas Anderson and had ...
Read more Arthur Anderson was appointed as a Constable in Hertfordshire on 24th September 1912, serving twenty five years and retiring as a Constable on 24th September 1937. Married to Louisa, Arthur died on 16th February 1959.
Read more Early Life. Arthur Albert Anderson was born on the 5th May 1887 in Leytonstone, Essex. His father, Henry Anderson a plasterer, married his mother Mary Ann Turner on the 7th November 1881 at Marylebone. They had ten children of whom six tragically died as infants before the 1911 census. The children were Esther born 1882 at Edmonton, Nellie ...
Read more Early Life. Arthur Brackett was born on 24th December 1887 at Canterbury and baptised on 15th April 1902 at Bishop Ryder, Birmingham. His father was William Alfred Brackett and he married Martha Lewin on 2nd March 1879 at St. Andrews Church, Kensington. William was recorded as being a Soldier living at Woolwich. Martha already had a daughter, ...
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Read more PC Charles Hagger gets there in the end: his promotion to sergeant is confirmed
Read more The Authorised Establishment Verses The Demand For More Soldiers
Read more A photograph of Group 4 at Bishops Stortford being briefed in 1975
Read more Constables Burch and Silcock killed in a traffic incident in April 1960.
Read more Details of John Halsey's police career from 1959 - 1990. Also some pictures of amongst other things Police Vehicles.
Read more This photo was in an album my grandmother had. She grew up in Bishop’s Stortford but I don’t remember her ever telling me who this man was. Can anyone provide any information, maybe based on the uniform / collar number ?
Read more On 9th May 1895, Ware's Superintendent Wymer was promoted to Deputy Chief Constable and replaced by Superintendent William Wood. As a mark of their appreciation for his kindness and support, Wymer's officers gathered at the police station to wish him a fond farewell.
Read more P.C. Roddis was accused of perjury.
Read more Early Life. Charles Thomas Bathurst Hodgskin was born on the 10th August 1881 at East Dulwich, Surrey. His father, Richard Hodgskin, was a carpenter and builder. He married his first wife, Cordelia Clark in 1850 and they had five sons. Sadly only one, Richard Alfred John, survived beyond infancy. Cordelia died aged 42 in 1869. Richard then married ...
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