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  • John Silas Creassey
    John Silas Creassey
    ...Silas Creassey of Talbot Road, Rickmansworth died on the 21st July 1908 at Rickmansworth he was buried at Rickmansworth on the 25th July with the ceremony conducted by C.M.O. Parkinson (Vicar). Obituary. Published in the Watford Observer on Saturday 1st August 1908 under the heading Death: It is with regret that we announce the death of Mr. John S. Creassey of Talbot Road, Rickmansworth. The deceased had been in failing health for a considerable p...
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  • Gamekeepers brutally attacked - Rickmansworth
    Gamekeepers brutally attacked - Rickmansworth
    ...th bludgeons and stones on three of Lord Ebury’s gamekeepers at Moor Park, Rickmansworth. The keepers in question were watching some preserves at Sandy Lodge farm, not far from Moor Park, when the five poachers set upon them with bludgeons and stones. Benjamin Green was shockingly maltreated by blows on the head, and while down on the ground and covered with blood, the ruffians kicked him in the back and on the body, rendering him insensible. Upon...
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  • Theft of straw at Rickmansworth
    Theft of straw at Rickmansworth
    ...was indicted for stealing a quantity of straw belonging to Samuel King, at Rickmansworth, on October 25; also with receiving two sacks of stolen oats, the property of Colin Taylor, King & Co., at Bushey, on October 2. The straw case was taken first. A man named James Clark, a dairyman, was driving along the road between Watford and Rickmansworth when he saw the prisoner at the side of the road with a horse and van taking straw from Mr King’s stack...
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  • Cycle of offending - theft of bicycle at Rickmansworth and elsewhere
    Cycle of offending - theft of bicycle at Rickmansworth and elsewhere
    ...leaded guilty to stealing a bicycle, the property of John Edward Jones, at Rickmansworth, on October 19th last. Mr. Murphy, who prosecuted, said that on the morning of October 19th a bicycle was taken from Mr Jones’s shop at Rickmansworth, and the prisoner was seen the next day riding the bicycle, which appeared to have been made for a man with longer legs. Subsequently the prisoner was arrested in Oxfordshire for another offence in Aylesbury, and...
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  • Rickmansworth's  police station 1865-1897
    Rickmansworth's police station 1865-1897
    Rickmansworth’s first purpose-built police station was completed in May 1865. Situated on a new street named Talbot Road, the two-storey, double fronted station was ideally located to serve the town centre. A single storey extension, comprising two cells, was built onto the northern exterior of the station-house. The cell block was ventilated by a single window complete with bars, and rendered the town’s cage redundant. The station was initially...
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  • Rickmansworth's  Police Station 1897-1952
    Rickmansworth's Police Station 1897-1952
    Located on the High Street, the site chosen for Rickmansworth’s second police station had previously been occupied by four small cottages. Built in 1807 these homes had been known as the Beresford Almhouses, and it was behind these that the town’s cage had stood since 1757. Sale of the Almshouses had to be approved by the Charity Commission, who agreed a purchase price of £400. The Commission also requested that the Standing Joint Committee meet...
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  • Albert Shambrook
    Albert Shambrook
    ...nuary 1910. Div. Rank No. Name Station Place for Duty C PC 263 Shambrook A Rickmansworth Knebworth Schedule D Return of Officers and Men detailed for duty in the Western or Watford Division 27th January 1910. Div. Rank No. Name Station Place for Duty C PC 263 Shambrook A Rickmansworth Sarratt General Order 8 of the 9th March 1910 informed Albert that he would receive an increased rate of pay from £1/5/8 to £1/6/10 per week from the 10th February 1...
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  • Henry Mortimer Armitage
    Henry Mortimer Armitage
    ...uary 1910. Div. Rank No. Name Station Place for Duty C PC 105 Armitage H M Rickmansworth Rickmansworth No record has survived but Henry had clearly been transferred from Watford to Rickmansworth. General Order 13 of the 1st April 1910 informed Henry that he would receive an increased rate of pay from 26/10 to 28/- per week from the 10th March 1910. Royal Visit. General Order 43 of the 5th December 1910 were instructions regarding a Royal Visit. “T...
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  • Early policing in Rickmansworth 1841-1865
    Early policing in Rickmansworth 1841-1865
    So keen was the town of Rickmansworth to see the formation of a county police force, that it petitioned parliament in 1840. Its eagerness to have men of a centrally controlled constabulary, pounding its streets, certainly wasn’t attributable to a lack of an existing policing presence. The minutes for the meeting of the Court Leet, held on 14th April 1841, recorded that fourteen parish constables were already in office. Of these, three policed the...
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  • A second husband whilst the first is serving abroad !
    A second husband whilst the first is serving abroad !
    ...h he then submitted to Inspector O’Connor. On 30th May, the witness was at Rickmansworth Police Station with the Inspector and the defendant when she admitted that, on 24th March last, she had married Corporal A.A. Andrews at the parish church at Rickmansworth. She also admitted that, on 19th September,1910, she had married Arthur Henry Crampton at the Registry Office, Bedford. On Wednesday, 5th June, she had handed the witness the certificate of...
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  • Ernest Edgar Waller
    Ernest Edgar Waller
    ...e Constabulary have been recalled to the Colours. Police Constable Hyiatt (Rickmansworth) started for the Cape some weeks ago, and now Police Constable Hunt (Watford) and Police Constable Waller (Rickmansworth) have received notice from the War Office that their services will be required. Ernest’s Army Service Record shows that on the 4th December 1899 he was Recalled to Army Service under the Special Army Order of the 7th October 1899. However, h...
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  • James Hyiatt
    James Hyiatt
    ...e Constabulary have been recalled to the Colours. Police Constable Hyiatt (Rickmansworth) started for the Cape some weeks ago, and now Police Constable Hunt (Watford) and Police Constable Waller (Rickmansworth) have received notice from the War Office that their services will be required. James’ Army Service Record shows that on the 9th October 1899 he was recalled to Army Service under a special Army Order of 7th October 1899 and he re-joined the...
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  • Frank Potton
    Frank Potton
    ...t 9 a.m. They will return to their Stations after the Show is over. Retirement And Life After The Police. Frank retired on the 26th November 1930 on ill health grounds and received a Pension of £77/3/5 per annum. In the 1939 Register Frank and Ellen are recorded as living at 92, Ebury Road, Rickmansworth. He is shown as a Park Keeper for Rickmansworth Urban District Council and a Dresser for A.R.P. (a neighbour works in the A.R.P. Stores so he may...
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  • William Ernest Manton
    William Ernest Manton
    ...n the 30th August 1931 William retired as Sergeant on a medical pension. Published on 25th September 1931 in the Uxbridge and West Drayton Gazette under the headline Death of PS Manton: The death occurred on Tuesday week of PS William Manton (46), who came to Rickmansworth last April. He was taken ill shortly afterwards and had to go off duty in December. He returned to duty in June but after being at work for two weeks was again taken ill and nev...
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  • Ernest George Aylott
    Ernest George Aylott
    ...e cottage house being vacated by Acting Sergeant Huckle at Parsonage Road, Rickmansworth. The Electoral Rolls of 1920 to 1925 list Ernest and Dorothy Aylott as living at Brighton Cottage, Parsonage Road, Rickmansworth. The following four General Orders all informed Ernest that on the 22nd July of each year he would receive the increased rate of pay as shown: General Order 125 of the 23rd July 1921 from £4/2/0 to £4/4/0 per week. General Order 95 o...
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  • Henry Owen
    Henry Owen
    ...three boys and five girls who were Sarah Ann (known as Annie) born 1886 at Rickmansworth, Charlotte Elizabeth born 1891 at Croxley Green, Henry, Catherine Mary born 1897 at Croxley Green, William Thomas born 1901 at Croxley Green, Emma Rose born 1903 at Croxley Green, Edith May born 1906 at Croxley Green and John Charles born 1908 at Croxley Green. At the time of the 1891 census the family were living at New Road, Rickmansworth and Henry senior is...
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  • Ernest Albert Victor Elkins
    Ernest Albert Victor Elkins
    ...t the 1925 Electoral Roll shows them living next door at 179, High Street, Rickmansworth. General Order 27 of 25th February 1925 reveals that Ernest had been successful in the Examination for Promotion from Sergeant to Inspector although he was never promoted. General Order 75 of 7th May 1925 notified Ernest of another increase in his pay from £5/5/0 to £5/7/6 per week from 26th April 1925. Ernest attended a week long course of instruction for Pol...
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  • Walter William Oliver, his career in his own words
    Walter William Oliver, his career in his own words
    ...a new detached police house there with a fair sized garden. The station at Rickmansworth was very small and inadequate so a new one was built, unique at the time because of it’s nature of the construction being partly prefabricated and with much glass and it included a recreation room and a bar. The new station was opened by Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, later Lord Kilmuir, the Home Secretary of State. I was later responsible for showing many people aro...
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  • The scales of justice
    The scales of justice
    ...n brought him to Watford. Prisoner first stated that he did not know where Rickmansworth was, but afterwards admitted to receiving 10 shillings from Mrs Hulbert for rectifying weights and scales. He had in his possession a small pair of scales and small weights. Matilda Hulbert, wife of Charles Hulbert, grocer, of Rickmansworth, stated that the prisoner came into the shop and said that he was ”Government contractor for weights and scales”, and he...
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  • Arthur Brackett
    Arthur Brackett
    ...with effect from the date shown, inclusive: PC 8 Brackett A. ‘C’ Division Rickmansworth. Date of reappointment 26/02/1920. Rate of Pay £4/2/0d. This officer must be formerly re-attested. The Superintendent concerned will report to this office when this has been done, showing viz: Date and place of attestation and before whom taken. There is one thing of note in this Order which is the change in his Warrant or Collar Number. Prior to the outbreak...
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  • Thomas Russell Kempthorne
    Thomas Russell Kempthorne
    ...ne, a retired Police Officer now working as a night watchman, his wife Fanny and children Russell and Joan and his future son-in-law Maurice Byatt as living at 7, Repton Way, Rickmansworth. Thomas Russell Kempthorne of 46, Durrants Drive, Croxley Green, Rickmansworth died on the 16th December 1977....
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  • Notable Events In Week Twenty
    Notable Events In Week Twenty
    ...d Police Constable Sharp, as well-merited reward for efficient service. At Rickmansworth on Friday 5th inst., a labourer named William Waldock was charged before the magistrates with stealing nine pheasants’ eggs, and was fined 4s. for each egg, in addition to the costs. Such offenders would well to remember that predatory habits are frequently very expensive. WORKHOUSE STATISTICS. The master’s journal was presented and showed the following statis...
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  • Joseph Hunt
    Joseph Hunt
    ...e Constabulary have been recalled to the Colours. Police Constable Hyiatt (Rickmansworth) started for the Cape some weeks ago, and now Police Constable Hunt (Watford) and Police Constable Waller (Rickmansworth) have received notice from the War Office that their services will be required. Joseph’s Army Service Record shows that he was recalled to Army Service under a special Army Order of 11th November 1899 and on the 13th November, he joined the...
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  • George Henry Bennett
    George Henry Bennett
    ...10. Div. Rank No. Name Station Place for Duty F PC 206 Bennett G H Bayford Rickmansworth Schedule B Return of Officers and Men detailed for duty in the Northern or Hitchin Division on Friday 21st January 1910. Div. Rank No. Name Station Place for Duty F PC 206 Bennett G H Bayford Stevenage Schedule C Return of Officers and Men detailed for duty in the Mid or St Albans Division Tuesday 25th January 1910. Div. Rank No. Name Station Place for Duty F...
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