| Description | Includes photographs enlarged and mounted on panels and covers Hull, Grimsby, Humberside, North Riding of Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire police forces.. Many are unlabelled except the following; Police clothing contract, 1901; facsimile of a print showing Grimsby Town Hall in the 1870s; Humberside Police patrol car, 1974; Beverley Borough police prior to merging into the East Riding Constabulary, 1928; presentation of the North Riding shooting cup by Mrs W H Dunlop, 1913.
Also includes the following facsimiles: photograph of a letter from King Henry VIII instructing Grimsby to keep a 'watch' or the first police force with a translation (2), 16th century; a poem about early policing 'The Belman of London' by Thomas Dekker (1608); extract from Great Grimsby court book of 12 May 1738 describing the punishment given to Ann Davis; extract from the 'Public Advertiser' of 20 Dec 1754, describing the work of John Fielding who was the thief-taker general; proclamation by Queen Victoria for the encouragement of piety and virtue and for the preventing and punishing of vice, profaneness and immorality, 21 Jun 1837; extract from the 'Police Review and Parade Gossip' of 17 Dec 1915 relating to women working in Hull; North Riding Police Bloodhounds 'Rules to be Observed' with a photograph of a bloodhound, 1914; documents which were forwarded to Horsham Police in connection with the Haigh acid bath murders, 1943 (3); extract from a book about policing in the early nineteenth century. |