Video ID: tblwnjrTwt4
YouTube URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tblwnjrTwt4
Added At: 13-06-25 21:18:45
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Categories: Education, History
Tags: mystery, history, Victorian era, policemen, carvings
Summary
• A quiet back street in Islington has a mysterious brick wall with carvings. • The carvings are believed to be the marks left by Victorian policemen. • They carved their collar number followed by the letter of their division.
Transcript
in Islington not far from Angel station you'll find a quiet back street called Middleton passage go down it and you'll see that it looks at first glance fairly ordinary look closely however at this brick wall on the left and you'll notice something strange lots of the bricks have these odd carvings on them they're mostly numbers followed by a letter sometimes names sometimes places what are they for many years it was a mystery the local story was that the wall was built by prisoners in the Napoleonic Wars and that these were their prisoner numbers in 20 0 6 however the mystery was solved an investigator from English Heritage worked out that they are in fact Victorian left by Victorian policemen no less in the mid 19th century this poorly lit secluded spot had a reputation for crime and so policemen would be stationed here regularly clearly bored they started to leave their marks usually they carved their colar number followed by the letter of their division most RG for the Finsbury division that covered this area [Music]