The first Police Station


The first Police Station

One of the first police stations in London.

Location: 23 Paradise Street, Bermondsey, SE16 4QD

Description: This grand 1814 townhouse used to be Rotherhithe Police Station (1836-1965) and is Grade II listed in King Edward III's Rotherhithe Conservation Area.

Today it is used as private flats and is called William Gaiskell House in honour of its first owner.

Gaitskell was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons and Society of Apothecaries, London, and in 1830 he became the President of the Metropolitan Society of General Practitioners in Medicine and Surgery. There is no evidence that he was involved in the body-snatching epidemic of the 1820's (or a tunnel from here to the Thames).

The police station was founded here in 1836. By 1864 the Police Station served more than 100 officers from this building and had expanded to include cells around the back.

It is one of the great survivors from the area of World War II and the Blitz, and putting an air raid shelter on the roof must have been hair-raising for residents.

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The first Police Station

One of the first police stations in London.

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