A pocket notebook (R102/042) kept by PC Jonathan Butcher, detailing his daily duties: patrolling, serving summonses, arresting vagrants and drunkards and attending the Sessions in Ely. A rare survival from a period where such records were routinely destroyed.
Item Provenance
Presented c.1960 to a Chief Constable, after his death passed into the hands of an un-named dealer
Police Constable's memo book. FNL grant 2002. Image courtesy of Cambridgeshire Archives.