December 28, 2020
Bridgerton is the gift from Netflix for viewers looking for a diverting drama filled with romance, fashion, gossip, and scandal.
There are a lot of important moments in episodes four to eight but here are a few to take special note off. Warning:
MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD!!!
Daphne, the Prince, and a Duel
At another event, Prince Friedrich presents Daphne with a beautiful necklace with the Queen’s approval and even Lady Whistledown applauding the match. Miss Bridgerton is clearly flattered though we all know her heart is still with Simon. Speaking of the duke, he is still in town to support his friend Will’s boxing match and he runs into Anthony at their club. The viscount admits that his friend was being honorable with his sister when the prince arrives and asks Anthony for Daphne’s hand in marriage.
A museum is opening in the cells of one of London’s first police stations.
Bow Street Police Museum will tell the story, inside station cells and working rooms, of London’s first crime-fighters.
Visitors can spend time in “the tank”, the large cell where those arrested for drunken behaviour were placed.
The police station and courthouse opened in Covent Garden in 1881 and the station closed in 1992.
Bow Street Police Museum (Bow Street Police Museum/PA)
People arrested by police officers at Bow Street were held overnight and tried at the Magistrates’ Court next door.
It also dealt with extradition proceedings, terrorist offences and cases related to the Official Secrets Act, before shutting its doors in 2006.
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image captionThe new museum will be based in the cells and offices of Bow Street Police Station
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 closed a number of years ago.
From early 2021, the building s ground floor cells and offices are to open up as the Bow Street Police Museum, telling the history of local policing.
Manager Vicki Pipe said they cannot wait to welcome our first visitors .
London’s newest museum to open inside former Bow Street police station Robert Dex
London’s newest museum will open next year inside an historic court and police station, telling the story of crime and punishment in the West End over more than 100 years.
Bow Street Police Museum is part of a redevelopment scheme which has seen the grade II-listed station and magistrates court building transformed into a luxury hotel.
The museum will explore the launch of the Bow Street Runners – the first organised police force – and look at some of the famous trials held in the historic court which closed its doors in 2006.