Nightwatchmen or Watchmen. Organized groups of men, employed to deter criminal activity and provide law enforcement as well performing services of public safety, fire watch, crime prevention, crime detection or recovery of stolen goods. From Old England: A Pictorial Museum, published 1847.

---

Size: 4455px × 3877px
Photo credit: © Classic Image / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: activity, archival, archive, beacon, burned, crime, criminal, daily, detection, deter, employed, enforcement, england, english, fire, flammable, goods, groups, historical, history, illustration, job, lantern, lanterns, law, life, light, members, men, night, nightwatchman, nightwatchmen, oil, organized, pitch, prevention, public, safety, services, society, stolen, trade, trades, watch, watchman, watchmen, work, worker, workers, working