Photos

Details of the photos can be found at the bottom of this page (new photos added December 2023)

Photo Details:

abay - PC Anthony Bayliss with Austin Westminster Patrol Car. Strensham Police Post M5. c1970.

acla7 - PC Albert Clarke on duty in Halesowen High Street in 1921.

acla8 - Chief Inspector Arthur Clarke at Stourport c1980.

acocksgreen8 - The opening of Acocks Green Police Station in 1910.

acou - PC Arthur Court at Droitwich in July, 1904.

aeva4 - PC Aneurin Evans at Dudley c1960.

agru2 - P.C. Arthur Grubb at Wychbold c1963.

Ahai9 - Assistant Chief Constable Albert Haines c1950.

ahye4 - P.C. Alfred Hyett at Pen-y-Craig Colliery, Glamorgan August 1911.

akey5.jpg: PC Arthur Keyte on duty at a soup kitchen for hop pickers at Eardiston in 1918. 

akib - PC Arthur Kibart as a recruit, Castle Street Police Headquarters, Worcester. 1927

alaw3.jpg: Sgt Alfred Lawrence patrolling the River Severn at Worcester in the police launch c1964. 

alem - PC Albert Lemon, Worcester City Police, Copenhagen Street, Worcester. October, 1894.

alvechurch2.jpg: PC Arthur Bennett on duty at Alvechurch observing the walking of the bounds ceremony in 1906. 

amos2 - PC Alexander Moss at Pershore Racecourse. 2nd May, 1910.

apar9 - PC Arthur Parry, Leigh Sinton. c1947.

apas5 - Supt Alfred Pass, Evesham. c1930.

apit5 - Policewoman Alma Pitt (Worcester City) in Sidbury, Worcester in 1959.

arencc7 - CC Alexander Rennie, Droitwich Training School in August, 1975.

Astwoodbank5 - P.C. Ron Ireson gives a talk on the police at Ridgeway Middle School in 1976.

awoo6 - PC Arthur Wood (Dudley) Stafford Driving School c1968.

Balsallheath1 - The former Balsall Heath Police Station which was originally in Worcestershire until boundary changes in 1891.

bemm7 - PC Barry Emms (Worcs) Mill Meece Training School, Staffordshire, 1952.

bewdley1 - l-r PC Joseph Paish, Sgt William Rowley, PC Samuel Roberts, Bewdley 1899.

char1 - Supt. Charles Harrison outside Malvern Police Station c1900.

dudley121 - PC Reginald Barley (left) and his Police Dog Dusty and PC Leslie Evans and his Police Dog Smokey, the first Dudley Borough Police Dog Handlers c. 1963

dudley142.jpg: A group of Dudley Borough Policewomen - L - R PW Agnes Rooss, PW Dorothy Pladgeman, PW Roma Dyer, PW Sgt Doreen Carter. 

dudley179 - Dudley Police Austin Westminster Patrol Car 2500 FD. The vehicle was purchased in June, 1960. Inspector Basil Bradford is standing on the right and PC Tony Whittle on the left.

dudley31 - Police Officers controlling traffic in Wolverhampton Street, Dudley c.1923. PC Eli Stafford is facing the camera.

dudley5 - A group of Dudley Police Officers in December, 1906. (Please note many of (if not all) the officers have the wrong collar numbers which has caused identification problems. If anyone has any information on this photo please get in touch)

ejon10 - PC 383 Ernest Jones c1905 at Blockley

ekee13 - Sgt 349 Edward Keen 1964 at Hindlip Hall

Halesowen21 - One of the first Worcestershire Motor Patrols c1931. Police Constables Chandler and Gray stand beside their Royal Enfield motorcycle and sidecar at Halesowen.

hhar11 - PC 21 Henry Harding, Worcester City Police 1884

Hhea2 - Police Constable Horace Heard at Police Headquarters c1955.

hhod4 - Chief Constable of Kidderminster Harry Hodgkinson 1944

Hindlip22 - A Jaguar MkVII patrol car in 1952

hindlip241 - West Mercia Constabulary communications van 1981

hindlip244 - West Mercia Constabulary Jaguar SJ 4.2cc. 1983

hindlip449 - Army helicopter hovering over Hindlip Hall during helicopter trials 1969.

hlow6 - Supt Harry Lowe at Kidderminster. He had previously served in the Kidderminster Borough Force c1950.

hmoo - P.C. Harry Moore outside Ombersley Police Station c1950.

Jash2 - P.C. John Ashmore at Kidderminster Police Station with an Austin A99 Westminster patrol car c1962.

jbun14 - Police Constable 110 Joe Bunn at Stourport in 1920 

jcol20 - Chief Constable John Cole of Lincoln formerly a Constable and Sergeant in Kidderminster Borough Police c1902. 

Jdav6 - The headstone of P.C. James Davies who was murdered at Beoley in 1885.

jhol24.jpg: PC John Hollyhead in the uniform of an Air Mechanic of the Royal Flying Corps at an unknown location in 1916. During his service he was awarded the Military Medal. 

jhul2.jpg: Supt James Hullah at Dudley in c1957. 

jfie4.jpg: PW Janet Field driving a police Range Rover and wearing a new version of policewomen's uniform in 1970. 

jnor9.jpg: Sgt John Northover with a police motor cycle in c1985. 

jpar6.jpg: PC Joseph Parkes outside the Salters Hall in Droitwich in 1885. 

jrea - P.C. Michael Read outside Fairfield Police Station c1960.

jwin.jpg:  PC John Winfield (Worcester City). He was killed in action in WWI in 1915. 

Kidderminster35 - A Kidderminster Borough Police Group c1924.

kidderminster38 - A Police Officer controls traffic at the Pulpit at Kidderminster c 1958.

kidderminster110 - The new Kidderminster Police Ambulance in 1936. 

Malvern48 - Inspector Charles Gullick and Police Constable Terry Hewlett patrol Church Street, Malvern in 1963.

oldbury38 - A police cell at Oldbury police station. Photographed in 2011.

pcal - Women's Auxiliary Police Corp - Phylis Calder - July, 1944  Castle Street, Worcester.

pcar1 - PC Patrick Carpenter and his police dog. c1960 - Police Headquarters, Hindlip Hall.

pcla4 - PC Percy Clarke - Selly Oak. July, 1910.

pedmore1 - The former police station police houses at Pedmore, Stourbridge. c2010.

pershore15 - Pershore Police Station - 1947 - Decorated for the Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh.

pfre1 - PC Peter French with a Vauxhall Saloon Patrol Car. c1955.

pmob - PC Peter Mobbs - Dudley - 1897.

pmob11 - The warrant card for Inspector Peter Mobbs issued in 1921.

redditch30 - PC 478 Roy Harris and Sgt 497 Roy Burrett c1973 Redditch

redditch42 - PC George Skerratt on traffic duty at Church Green Redditch c1930

report.document81 - An early Worcestershire Constable's Instruction booklet initial page 1842. 

rfau12 - PC 256 Reginald Faulkner acknowledges a motorist at Bromsgrove c1925. 

rfry1 - Cadet Richard Fry operating a telex at the Police Headquarters, Hindlip Hall c1961. 

sports4 - Annual Police Sports held at Hindlip Hall. The police bicycle race. 1956.

stafford5 - A police dog training course at Stafford Police Headquarters. 1963.

steelhelmets - World War II steel helmets used by the Police.

stocktononteme - Police Officers dealing with a Road Traffic Accident at Stockton on Teme clear the road. June, 1966.

stourbridge13 - This building was the single quarters for Worcestershire and West Mercia single police officers at Stourbridge until 1974. The building also contained the canteen and police club.

Thomasbennett - New recruit Thomas Bennett at Worcester c1902.

trog - Sgt Thomas Rogers 1928 Redditch

tshe - PC Thomas Sherwood 1885 Dudley

vlan2 - Sgt Verly Lancelot Pershore 1954

whay1 - Sgt. Walter Hayes of the Kidderminster Borough Police c1920.

Worcestercity12 - Worcester City P.C. Stuart Baker on patrol c1967.

worcestercity17 - Worcester City Police Vehicle Fleet c1967.