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It is the stench that Lee-Jane Yates remembers vividly. âIt was so rancid,â she said. But then it was from a small cell that sometimes housed a double-figure number of men, held there overnight after being arrested for drunken behaviour.
Today the cell, nicknamed âthe tankâ, is clean, odour-free and ready to welcome visitors to the UKâs newest independent museum, one telling the story of Bow Street police station and magistrates court in London.
Yates was a rookie WPC stationed at Bow Street in the early 1980s. âThe tank is very different from how I remember it,â she said. âIt had its own unique odour and as you walked closer it became even more rancid. I think they got as many people in there as they could.â
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