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Leicester, Police Station, Charles Street c.1955
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This is an austere, almost threatening building, in an English Palazzo style, hardly the imagined face of the friendly local 'Bobby'. With its rusticated ground storey and ashlar-faced upper storeys, designed by Noel Hill in 1933, it fails to match in design quality other police stations such as Hammersmith by Donald McMorran, 1938 or even Savile Row by Burnet, Tate and Lorne, 1939. Whether by design or accident, the building suggests that some dif- ficulty could be encountered by anyone trying to leave.

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Memories of Leicester, Police Station, Charles Street c1955

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. These memories are of Leicester, Police Station, Charles Street c.1955

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Thomas Pritchard Chief Constable Circa 1780s
My wife Merlyn's great, great, grandfather, Thomas Pritchard, held the position of Chief Constable in Hereford during the 1770's to 1790's. He had seven sons, and the youngest, Thomas, born in 1831, migrated to Australia in the Horizon and settled in Bendigo, Victoria in 1857, as a result of the 'gold rush'. He then followed his trade as a carpenter and went into the building trade ...see more
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