Village Policemen

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click The Police Service for other police reports

The Buckinghamshire Police Force was inaugurated in 1857.   There is no policeman recorded locally in the census until 1891 at Graham Cottages,, Main Road, Lacey Green.

1891 Census.   Esau Thorne 36, Jane 36, John 14, Annie 10.

1901 Census.   Frederick J Kirby 24, Mary 31, Alfred 7 months.

1911 Census Frederick Cox 29, Eliza Jane 29, Annie Kathleen 8, Frederick Basil 6.

P C Matthews

1930- 1939 P C Reginald Harris mentioned by his son John Harris. click Lacey Green School Reunion 2000

P C Drage

1939 Census Sidney C Farr 28, Kathleen 28.   Left in 1939

A new Police House (Later called Huntingden) was built just before WW2

1939   P C Frank Goldsmith, his wife and family, throughout WW2.

P C Herbert

P C Adams

1965   P C Monger living in new police house when Derek & Ursula Glyn-Jones moved into Cairndale next door.

1967   P C Smith moved into the Police House November 1967 at the time of the "cold war". His work was based elsewhere from 1969 although he lived in the house until 1971.   He was the last village bobby. Click 1967 The Last Village Bobby.