Bow Street was home to London's first professional police force, the Bow Street Runners, which was founded in 1749. The Met Police later opened a police station in Bow Street and a magistrates ...

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Bow Street Magistrates Court, one of London's most famous legal landmarks, has closed its doors for the last time. The closure ends 267 years of legal history at a court which played host to ...

In the corridor outside Court Two at Bow Street, Frederick is waiting for sentence. He is 76 years old and a self-confessed burglar, hoping for a community-based sentence, but facing the prospect of ...

The prison cells of a former central London police station are to become the galleries of a new museum. Bow Street Police Station and Magistrates' Court opened in Covent Garden in 1881, but it was ...