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You can find London’s smallest police station tucked away in the corner of Trafalgar Square👮 Built in the 1920s to serve as a watch-post, the castle-style gaps in the walls allowed officers to keep an eye on their surroundings; the box also had a direct telephone line to Scotland Yard. When the officer picked up the phone to call for support, the light on top of the tiny station would flash like a beacon, signalling to other nearby officers. You would be forgiven for walking straight past this
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You can find London’s smallest police station tucked away in the corner of Trafalgar Square👮 Built in the 1920s to serve as a watch-post, the castle-style gaps in the walls allowed officers to keep an eye on their surroundings; the box also had a direct telephone line to Scotland Yard. When the officer picked up the phone to call for support, the light on top of the tiny station would flash like a beacon, signalling to other nearby officers. You would be forgiven for walking straight past this
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