Wide Wednesday – HISTORY

My blip today is the village’s old police station with historical notes

A note written about Sharnbrook Police Station in 1920

In 1871 after the appointment of a new Chief Constable, Magistrates felt it was “desirable that provision should be made for a lock-up house and a proper place for holding petty sessions in the Bletsoe division.” And so a new county police station was planned for Sharnbrook. The station was completed in September 1872 at a cost of £1189. The Inspector of Constabulary remarked, “the station house at Sharnbrook has been completed and is now regularly used, with a good residence for the superintendent, three cells and a courthouse attached.”

With the advent of better transport links in the early sixties and the introduction of unit beat policing, rural stations were no longer a necessity and Sharnbrook police station closed in 1967. The station has since been converted into residential flats.