| Description | Includes lables of varying sizes, some of which may have an accompany an image at POL/1/8/5/2 and POL/1/8/5/3 and some which explain more fully the history of policing. They relate to the history of policing, organisational history and may include information not available elsewhere in the archive collection. Includes the history of Hull, Grimsby, North Riding, Lincolnshire and East Riding police forces. The following have been extracted as relating to a particular force. There is also a file of general labels.
Labels relating to Lincolnshire police: 38 pieces
Includes a description of the system of payments to parish constables in 1840, the appointment of police officers and the building of lockups from 1843 to 1851, the formation of Lincolnshire Constabulary, the building of new police stations following the discovery of ironstone at Scunthorpe, the move to employing officers rather than parish constables in an agricultural area, a list of superintendents of Lincolnshire Constabulary (nd.), includes extracts from the Police Almanac' 1875 of the population and police strength of Lincolnshire Constabulary, the founding of the Criminal Investigation Department.
Following subjects are mentioned; a riot at Crosby, Scunthorpe on 22 Jun 1914, Scunthorpe police station opened on 14 Oct 1954 and the following officers, Captain Mitchell Innes, PC 58 D Redgate, Constable 99L John Shin, Police Constable Hanlon, Chief Constable Philip Bicknell in 1877, Major Brinkley.
Grimsby Police 45 pieces
Extract from Her Majesty's Inspector of 1876 showing the number of incidents at public houses in Grimsby in 1876, Grimsby police in attendance at the 1886 Parliamentary Election
Following officers are mentioned, Chief Constable Waldram, 1879, Chief Constable Stirling, 1927, Constable Ken Pawsey, John Jackson Allbones, 1859, PC Davis, 1940, Sergeant Emmerson and Policewomen Thomspon and Wilson, Sergeant James Spindler, 1911, Miss Peggy Grimstead, Superintendent Edward Codd, Chief Constable Job Waldram
Hull City police force (30 pieces)
career information on Patrick Coulehan of Hull City police,
Sergeant Allbones with a prisoner outside King Edward Stree lock up, Chief Constable A McManus of Hull, Thomas Grasby
Beverley Borough and East Riding Constabulary (30 pieces)
Short history of the career of Superintendent David Willkinson, 1858-1938 and his car, number of traffic accidents attended, Superintendent George Clarke and PC Joseph Fussey of Howden police station, 1900, Chief Constable Captain AF Hordern, PC Farr, Lt Colonel B Granville Layard. |