Catalogue description WEST LONDON MAGISTRATES' COURT (FORMERLY HAMMERSMITH POLICE COURT)

This record is held by London Metropolitan Archives: City of London

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Title: WEST LONDON MAGISTRATES' COURT (FORMERLY HAMMERSMITH POLICE COURT)
Description:

COURT REGISTERS (GENERAL MATTERS)

 

Court registers Part 1 1877-1968 PS/WLN/A01/001-472

 

Court registers Part 2 1882-1968 PS/WLN/A02/001-343

 

Court registers Parts 1 and 2 1969-1986 PS/WLN/A08/001-219

 

COURT REGISTERS (PARTICULAR MATTERS)

 

Enquiries into means 1936-1962 PS/WLN/A03/01-10

 

Small Tenements Act cases 1911-1961 PS/WLN/A04/01-22

 

Civil Debt cases 1936-1967 PS/WLN/A05/01-08

 

Ex Parte cases 1962-1964 PS/WLN/A06/01

 

'O.C.C.' registers 1933-1958 PS/WLN/A07/01-02

 

DOMESTIC PROCEEDINGS

 

Married Women's Act orders 1922-1939 PS/WLN/B01/01-15

 

Bastardy complaints before birth 1916-1960 PS/WLN/B02/01

 

Bastardy orders before birth 1916-1959 PS/WLN/B03/01

 

Bastardy complaints after birth 1935-1966 PS/WLN/B04/01-03

 

Bastardy orders after birth 1927-1967 PS/WLN/B05/01-05

 

Bastardy complaints after 12 months 1935-1961 PS/WLN/B06/01-02

 

Bastardy arrears complaints 1952-1965 PS/WLN/B07/01-02

 

Orders after aggravated assault 1923-1947 PS/WLN/B08/01

 

Domestic court 1960-1961 PS/WLN/B09/01

Held by: London Metropolitan Archives: City of London, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Kensington Police Court, c 1841-1843

Hammersmith Police Court, c 1843-1889

West London Magistrates' Court, 1889-

Subjects:
  • Hammersmith, Middlesex
  • Kensington, Middlesex
  • Kensington, London, Greater
  • Administration of justice
Administrative / biographical background:

This court was originally opened in Kensington (1 Church Court) in approximately 1841. It was known as the Kensington Police Court and administered jointly with Wandsworth Police Court. It was moved to Brook Green Lane, Hammersmith in 1843 and became known as the Hammersmith Police Court. In 1859 it moved to the Junction of Vernon Street and Southcombe Street, West Kensington. In 1889 it was administratively separated from Wandsworth and became known as the West London Police Court.

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