P004 South Yorkshire

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P004 - Edition 1500

South Yorkshire

Another edition to our range of Emergency vehicles, this time South Yorkshire. At the end of the 18th Century Sheffield had six watchers. Their names include Sammy Suck-Thumb and Tommy Hotbread - who earned his name through selling half-penny rolls in the morning following his nightly watch. Tommy was said to be feeble minded with a speech impediment. By 1810 civic leaders felt that watchers such as these were not up to coping with acts of crime in a growing industrial town. The Local Improvements Act allowed Sheffield to apply to Parliament for power to levy a local rate for watching, lighting, paving and cleaning. However, at a noisy public meeting in the town hall in December local people decided not to apply for help through the Act. However the growth of the population soon meant that more organised policing was required and an application was made which resulted in the start of policing in the area

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