The Collections

You can search and view the collections in the catalogue and the photo album

General equipment
 

Photograph
Photographs
Sword

Weapons, such as the Warrington Borough Police sword pictured here, truncheons, handcuffs, leg irons, whistles, lamps, furniture, clocks and all sorts of odd items such as carrier pigeon rings.
 

Uniform

 

 

Uniforms

From the 19th century to the present day. Jackets, badges, belts, hats & helmets plus a collection of police uniforms from throughout the world.

Left: a Superintendent's Uniform Frock Coat 1860

Right: Italian Police hat

 

  

Police group and individual photos from  about 1870, vehicles - the first police cars 1901, accidents, murders, bomb damage, buildings, events and award ceremonies.
  Hat

Documents

A vast range of police documents and books, many stored in the Cheshire County Archives. Crime informations, wanted posters, Police officer records, marriage register, letters, public notices, newspaper cuttings, forged bank notes. 

Gazette

 Forgery
 


And everything else

Martuary box

Human skull, animal traps, opium pipes, printing blocks, a hand ambulance, a pulmotor (do you know what that is?), medals, sound locator and all sorts of odds and ends. If it's weird and people don't know what to do with it then it ends up in the police museum.

 Right: a croquet ball fired from a barracks' canon during an
officers' mess ball. It broke a window in a nearby house.

Left: a set of mortuary instruments.  

Croquet ball

You can search and view the collections in the catalogue and the photo album