bsky.app/profile/did:...

Floor plans of the basement and ground floor of the station in Hampstead, signed off at the top by Commissioner Edward Henry and Receiver (i.e. chief finance officer) George Tripp. They cross-reference with a now-lost contract of 28 June 1912 between the Met and William Moss & Sons, a firm of builders founded in 1820 in Loughborough. The basement includes separate rooms for brushing and drying uniforms, along with rooms for bicycles and a hand ambulance and for coal for the single men's quarters. The ground floor includes a separate court waiting room for women, the steps up into court from the cells, an "association cell", a room for the police surgeon and police matron next to the cells (much where the room for a duty nurse would be in a custody suite today) and a large bay-windowed office, sitting room, bedroom and kitchen for the Station Inspector (who lived in) and his family.

Some plans of police stations went to the National Archives and some into our collections - here's one of the latter showing the 1910s station-and-police-court complex on Rosslyn Hill in Hampstead. (CC @burghhouse1704.bsky.social) #ArchivePlan #Archive30

bsky.app/profile/mpsh...

bsky.app/profile/mpsh...

bsky.app/profile/mpsh...

#GLAM abhors a vacuum, it's true ... 😁

Suffrage Stories: The WSPU Illuminated Address. Is This Sylvia Pankhurst’s Original Design? Material owned by the Metropolitan Police Service Museum, licensed under the Metropolitan Police Service Non-Commercial Licence. (This image must not be reproduced without permission from the Metro…

Thanks to @mpsheritage.bsky.social I think I may have identified an original Sylvia Pankhurst artwork. Altho' for licensing agreement the pic below isn't the original - but to unravel the mystery read on...
womanandhersphere.com/2026/04/17/s...

Black and white photograph of a young white male sitting at a desk reading records, with floor-to-ceiling shelving full of binders and thick books fills the whole wall behind him.

As museum workers in a combined collection of objects and archives (an objive? an archeum?), we work hand-in-glove with the Met's Records Department to work out what needs to be archived and whether it goes to the National Archives or to us. #AboutAppraisals #Archive30

Five long thin cream cardboard boxes in a single larger box. One of them is open, showing tiny square envelopes, whilst on top of the closed ones is one of the envelopes opened up to show the SD card inside.

We recently began our first-ever oral history project and the SD cards storing the recordings are living their best conservation-grade life ... #DigitalArchives #Archive30 #conservation #Goalz

Our gallery with grey floors, plinths and walls and black-edged display cases. In the centre the back of a death mask of Frederick Deeming, a drawer unit with archive on the Crippen case showing on its top, and an enamel-less bath from the 'Brides in the Bath' cases of the 1910s.

For three more weeks our #ArchivePresent is our exhibition marking the 150th anniversary of the Crime Museum. It's currently sold out, but keep an eye out for cancellations at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/metropolit...! #Archive30 #FridayFeeling

bsky.app/profile/did:...

An aisle of deep empty grey shelves, with a window and scaffolding in the distance.

Last year we upgraded to a gallery double the size of our old one. That old store has just been fitted out as a store, but its shelves won't stay this empty for long ... #ArchiveStorage #Archive30

bsky.app/profile/mpsh...

Black and white photograph of a bareheaded young man sitting at a table with a top hat inverted on it. He wears a dark blue tailcoat with shiny buttons and 417.N on its high collar.

We haven't had one recently, but there was a spate of genealogy enquirers expecting us as a matter of course to have photographs of their ancestors who joined in the 1830s ...
#awkward #Archive30 #ArchiveMyths

Auction of the White House (Ilford House) and Roding House in 1843.

Back in the 1840s they were across the road in Roding House - later to be the house of the manager of the paper mill!

ERO ref. D/DSa 1329/12 - Auction of various properties including White House Ilford

Black and white photograph of Ilford Police Station on Ilford Hill, about 1880

Photograph of Ilford Police Station on Ilford Hill, about 1980

Photograph of Ilford Police Station on Ilford High Road, 2001

Ilford Police Station was first built on Ilford Hill in 1860 (📸: 1880).

In 1906 it was replaced with a new building (📸: 1980) on the same site.

The station on Ilford Hill was closed in 1995 when the current one (📸: 2001) opened on the High Road.

#EYACrime @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/mpsh...

A large and relatively thick ledger standing on a table. It is covered front, back and on both edges by cover or jacket in grey conservation grade cards, with two ribbon handles at the spine end to make it easier to get it off the shelf.

This impressive cardboard contraption was especially made by a conservator for our 19th century charge ledger from Beckenham Police Station.
#ArchiveConservation #Archive30 #localhistory #EYAcrime

CC @newhamheritage.bsky.social @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social

In the following year's census it housed an Inspector, his family, a servant, and eleven unmarried PCs. During the construction work on the present station unearthed mammoth bones from around 90,000 BC, now in the Newham Heritage Centre collection (www.newham.gov.uk/libraries-ar...).

Back wall of a large brick building with two chimneystacks and fewer ground floor windows than first floor windows. In the foreground is a yard and two small children, one on a bicycle or tricycle.

Great Ilford and Little Ilford have both been in the Metropolitan Police District since 1848. We have this picture of the station yard from New Year's Eve 1910 (complete with tricycle and ghostly Victorian children).

#EYAcrime

#EYAcrime

Handwritten diary page dated November 8–9, 1888, with a highlighted passage mentioning "Whitechapel" and murders.

For this month's @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social theme of #EYACrime we have found this diary entry written by Walter Garstang in 1888, noting his distress in hearing 'newsboys filling the streets with cries of "another murder in Whitechapel" '

📷PGA1.2

bsky.app/profile/mpsh...

bsky.app/profile/mpsh...

Typed talk with ink and pencil corrections, entitled 'The Budgerigar' and opening "The subject of my talk is the keeping of a budgerigar as a pet".

Nothing to see here, just an eight-page talk on keeping a budgie as a pet given by a Met officer or member of civil staff to their colleagues ... #UnusualArchives #Archive30

Not framed any more and now in a modern conservation-grade mount. This is the only example we've catalogued so far - like all museums and archives we have a huge backlog in that area ... #PaintingTheForthBridge #ArchiveProblems #MuseumProblems

Our curator Dr Clare Smith will get onto the contact form message.

"... and I can bring the full blue fury of the Metropolitan Police Service with me!"