Historic London police station opens cells to visitors

Philip Gough, a former police inspector who worked at the police station between 1989 and 1992, poses for a photograph in a cell at the Bow Street Police Museum before it opens to the public tomorrow in London, Britain, May 27, 2021. REUTERS/John Sibley

LONDON (Reuters) - A disused London police station has opened up its old detention cells to visitors as it reinvents itself as a museum, the latest addition to the British capital's varied cultural offerings.

Bow Street Police Museum is located in the Covent Garden area, inside premises that used to house a police station and a magistrates' court where defendants ranging from writer Oscar Wilde to suffragettes Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst once appeared.