Police lock-up and pant

HER Number

16592

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Police lock-up and pant

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Communications

Site Type: Broad

Telecommunication Structure

Site Type: Specific

Police Box

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Newcastle had several combined police lock-up and pant. They were built between the 1860s and 1890s. They were stone, shaped like later metal police boxes, with a low pyramidal roof with a lantern on the top. Drunks and petty criminals could be temporarily locked up in here by the policeman on the beat.

Easting

424000

Northing

565000

Grid Reference

NZ424000565000

Sources

Petra Caroline [Henderson]'s Police and Police Boxes Virtual Telephone Museum, Police Lock-Up and Pant (Public Water Standpipe or drinking trough), Newcastle (1865); www.henderson-tele.com/police/boxes/bytown2.html; Immanuel Burton, 2006, A Brief History of the Police Box, November 2006 newsletter of the Construction History Society, www.policeboxes.com; Decentralization and the Police Box System by Frederick James Crawley, Chief Constable of Newcastle upon Tyne, The Police Journal, Volume 1, Number 1, January 1928; Peter Darrington, 2005, A History of the British Police Telephone Kiosk