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Bit late isn't it? I'd sack your paperboy if I were youThis turned up this morning.
I got this from eBay - a guy in North Dakota. Only one I’ve seen though I’m sure more exist.Do you have any more of these?
A fire station in a central location - that was a good idea.Looking at some of the pictures in the King's Arms before the Rangers game and noticed these "merged" pictures.View attachment 13122
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Police stations near to where crimes happen. No need to drive a car really fast down 30mph roads and risk killing people.A fire station in a central location - that was a good idea.
On an old map that I have, the odd house on Beaconside, between the two Sandon Road junctions, now Hawthorns Boarding Kennels, is marked as being a police station.Police stations near to where crimes happen. No need to drive a car really fast down 30mph roads and risk killing people.
Maybe in case the Mod Plods couldn't cope at nearby 16MU !On an old map that I have, the odd house on Beaconside, between the two Sandon Road junctions, now Hawthorns Boarding Kennels, is marked as being a police station.
Police Stations used to be in central locations because that's how they were most accessible to the public.Police stations near to where crimes happen. No need to drive a car really fast down 30mph roads and risk killing people.
But we couldn't be sure the lamp was blue.They also had a blue lamp, under which an old copper would stand and say: 'Evenin all !!'
(Even though Dirk Bogarde shot him dead in the movie.)
Some police forces used posts. Picture is a metal Met Pol one but Cambridge police had wooden onesThey had boxes too until the Doctor ran off with them.
and uniformed officers were known as woodentops.Some police forces used posts. Picture is a metal Met Pol one but Cambridge police had wooden ones