Bow Street Court closes

Missed this a couple of weeks back; hat tip to reader John Anderson:

BOW Street magistrates court in central London has heard its last case and will be sold to an Irish property developer who is believed to want to turn it into a hotel.

There has been a magistrates court in Bow Street since the system came into being, the first established on a site across the road from the current Victorian building in 1735.

More at the BBC (leading off with a list of "reluctant visitors": Casanova, the Kray twins, Oscar Wilde, Dr Crippen, the Pankhursts and Lord Archer) and the Guardian.

Posted by David on July 27, 2006 12:05 PM