Picture No | 11806510 |
Date | 1927 |
Description | Summary Justice on the Heath - Ascot Jottings |
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The other side to Royal Ascot race meeting - a central picture shows Ascot's police court where undesirables 'with one eye on the horses and the other on the purses of visitors' are dealt with. The court was instituted by William IV after a stone had been thrown at him.
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Source | Illustration by Steven Spurrier for The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 11 June 1927 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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