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Last modified on Thu 27 May 2021 14.32 EDT It is the stench that Lee-Jane Yates remembers vividly. “It was so rancid,” she said. But then it was from a small cell that sometimes housed a double-figure number of men, held there overnight after being arrested for drunken behaviour. Today the cell, nicknamed “the tank”, is clean, odour-free and ready to welcome visitors to the UK’s newest independent museum, one telling the story of Bow Street police station and magistrates court in London. Yates was a rookie WPC stationed at Bow Street in the early 1980s. “The tank...

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 ...

BBC News Published image copyrightCristian Barnett 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 histori...