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    Little Britain

    Jul 17, 2020 4 minutes

    Smallest police station TRAFALGAR SQUARE

    CHARING CROSS, LONDON

    “The disused police station on Trafalgar Square survives today as an art deco detail that is hidden in plain sight”

    While pedants might claim that the tiniest police station proper in the British capital is actually a conventional yet modest building on Pinner’s Waxwell Lane, we’re happy to instead bend the rules a little on this one – not least because while Trafalgar Square’s is technically only a police box, it is one of the most stylish and readily accessible of its kind.

    In the south-east corner of the famous square, beside the statue of Sir Henry Havelock, sits a small outpost for officers. It came about in the aftermath

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