PEELERS PROGRESS

CHARACTERS FROM THE PAST C1890 Inspector Joseph Edmonds 1888 Chingford Police outside their brand new first police station May 1893 C1908 Group of Sergeants Waltham Abbey rear yard 1916 Group of regulars and specials in the school yard bbhidehind the police sttitation in WlthWaltham Abbey. Taken to commemorate a major airship bombing raid on the town by LZ90. 1916 CblConstable 427 at the remains of a fire in EEipping ‐ 22 August. 1916 Special Constabulary 1918 Chingford Special Constabulary motor patrol 1929 PC354N ‘Napper’ Avis works the traffic point at the Wake Arms

C1940 Ongar Inspector Alfred Ernest Butcher Constabulary n peace and war June 1948 PC 254J Reggie Hurdwell takes afternoon tea at Epsom Races 1955 Dennis Yeates [centre] part of the ‘Juliet 1’ crew at Hackney 1958 Ching for d patrol line‐up WlWolse ley 6/110 and VlVelocette NNddoddy bikes 1959 A bit of trouble with Epping Forest. Claypit Hill is blocked. PC Reg Streetley is on the left. 1960 PC333J Edward ‘Ted’ Day and the Wolseley area patrol car at Copt Hall 1967 PC 187J John Hamer and his driver PC 731J Derek Cook with a Jaguar S type at Fishers Green 1970 The Upshire village constable Derek Boorn at Blue Row Cottages [Bury Farm] June 1970 The ‘Babes in the Wood’ murder investigation team take a break at the ‘Royal Oak’ in Sewardstone Road. 1977 Clifton Rise Lewisham. The man in the red pullover is arrested by PC418J Bryn Elliott and PC471J Reginald Arthur 1977 After the Lewisham Riots P.C.’s Reginald Arthur, John Coghlan, Ron Penney, Ian Andrew, Tom Page, TdTed Day and JhJohn Chilco tt flan k ItInspector Tim Ryan for a newspaper photoshoot 1980 Inspector Graeme Pulham oversees the Tudor day parade 1983 Sergeant Larry Thomas poses beside the telephone box in Sun Street 1983 Essex officers search St. Thomas ’ Quarter in Epping Forest for clues to the murder of Marie Payne 1989 AthAnother murder scene, this time Claypit Hill in Epping Forest and where nurse Judith Knight was found 1988 The Police Commissioner Calls Sir Kenneth Newman called at the station to meet Inspector Graeme Pulham, Sergeant John Benstead and Constables Upton, Elliott, Sharples and Harknett 1990 And its ‘Goodnight from him...’ A retirement ppyarty for Dave Harknet in the bar at The Sun Inn Sun Street 1992 And some die young. The service funeral of PC Michael Chapman 1997 Sergeant John Davies and his team in the meal room at Waltham Abbey They look younger every day!

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