|
More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
|
Bow Street
|
|
(London WC2) A street of importance in London's history because of the magistrates' court which stood on the west side in the 18C. When Henry *Fielding was magistrate here in the late 1740s, he established a system of volunteer thief-catchers. Known later as the Bow Street Runners, they were predecessors of the metropolitan *police. The well-known Bow Street police station and magistrates' court of modern times, on the east side of the road, was built in 1879–80 and continued in its original use until the early 1990s.
|
|
|
|