The legacy of Bow Street Runners

MYSTERY AND INTRIGUE OF BOW STREET Next to Robin Hood’s Merry Men, few other groups inspire images of mystery and intrigue quite as well as Bow Street Runners. They were a unique and unprecedented fighting force that paved the way for London’s modern police, Scotland Yard. They are also no longer in existence, and very little is actually known about them. Hence the mystery. And the tragedy. A LITTLE HISTORY Before the Magistrate of Bow…