LAST week, we told of Northallerton's legal history which has inspired Colin Narramore to dig out a couple of old pictures.
The first shows the court house which was built in the 1780s by the renowned Yorkshire architect John Carr on top of Priest Garth where the Treadmills development is currently taking shape.
Priest Garth belonged to the Bishop of Durham, but he didn’t look after it especially: it was waste ground which people used as a “receptacle for rubbish” and it had Horse Pond in the middle, where working horses were washed down after a hard day pulling a stagecoach.
The court on East Road was at the top of Zetland Road, so when the North Riding's first chief constable, Captain Thomas Hill, was appointed in 1856, he based his new force in an old house beside the court.
In 1880, he built the first proper police HQ on the site, and it remained there until 1910 when it moved to bigger premises in Racecourse Lane.
Captain Thomas Hill's first police station built in East Road, Northallerton, in 1880
The court remained in East Road until 1936 when it, too, moved to bigger premises in Racecourse Lane.
The court and the first police station were demolished in the early 1990s but at least Colin's pictures show what they looked like.
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