James Lucas was a wealthy, eccentric, Victorian land-owner who developed a paranoid fear of his relatives and barricaded himself inside the family mansion. He remained there in a state of siege for 25 years.
Read more Sergeant 4885 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment served in India, Drill Instructor Sergeant 9th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment
Read more Trooper 2nd Life Guards, Acting Bombardier Royal Garrison Artillery
Read more Lance Corporal P/2346 Military Mounted Police
Read more Martin Szaj served for 30 years from 1963 and on this occasion he talked us through his hard schedule and we also hear an anecdote from his days of rural surveillance….
Read more Trooper 3748 1st Life Guards, Gunner 200599 Royal Garrison Artillery
Read more Gunner 99378 Royal Horse Artillery Anti-Aircraft Lance Bombardier 191687 Royal Garrison Artillery Anti-Aircraft
Read more Killed in Action in Italy having been previously wounded whilst serving in North Africa.
Read more Two photos of Police Cadets (circa 1956) at the annual event held at Pendley Manor, Tring. (Owned at the time by the well known Show Jumping commentator Dorian Williams). One photo is part of a parade inspection by the Lord Lieutenant of the County. I am on the left next to Denis Smoker. Tony Kiff is in ...
Read more Details of some of the Officers of Hertfordshire Constabulary who joined the services in the First World War
Read more The story of the Mounted from its reinstatement after the First World War to its disbanding in 1928
Read more Many readers will recall the 1984 Coal Strike but will not have realised that the Hertford County Constabulary were called upon 70 years earlier.
Read more A police patrol car driver was cleared of a charge of driving without due care and attention.
Read more Reproduction of Jedd's classic image "Nine Pints of the Law" by members of Royston Police Station in 1990 to mark the retirement of Sgt John Halsey.
Read more Framed photograph of Royston Police titled "None for the Road" Old Royston Police Station October 1990
Read more Accidently killed whilst on active service when the Army truck he was driving collided with a train on a level crossing.
Read more Having served as Private 3044 in the Grenadier Guardsman he joined the St. Albans City Police in 1898. He was recalled to the Colours on 13th November 1899 for the Boer War, serving as a Sergeant Drill Instructor in the Bedfordshire Regiment. He re-joined the Police and retired as a Constable.
Read more Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History Tuesday 1st May 1860 Herts Guardian, Agricultural Journal, and General Advertiser ST. ALBANS TOWN COUNCIL. On Saturday morning special meeting of the council was held. The business was to receive and determine upon a report of the watch committee to providing more cells, an engine-house, and residence for the police, and ...
Read more Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History 26/11/1924 Commendation. At Great Berkhamsted petty sessions on 26 November 1924, the chairman Spencer Holland Esq, commended Constable Arthur Samuel Brown, 316 “D” Division , as action whilst in plain clothes, and on the sick list, in affecting the rest of Edward Cornwall CRO, on a charge of larceny. (General ...
Read more Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History 9/10/1967 On the 9th October 1967, the Alcotest Breath test was introduced. 101 Tests were administered before the end of the year, 26 of which were positive. Five persons were prosecuted for refusing to take the test. The average alcohol of those found positive was 163mg/100ml in blood (legal limit ...
Read more Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History 16/10/1988 At 1 a.m. on 16 October 1988, a Special Constable and a Constable, were on patrol in the parade Watford. Both officers heard a gunshot and saw a man lying injured on the ground. The Special Constable ran in the direction where the shot had come from and his ...
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