the main police court in London, which was in the street of this name until the early 1990s. It is now at Charing Cross . When Henry Fielding was a magistrate at Bow Street in the 1740s, he formed the Bow Street Runners , a group of people trained to catch thieves. This was the first step towards the creation of the Metropolitan Police in 1829.
BOW STREET
Meaning of BOW STREET in English
Oxford guide to British and American culture English vocabulary. Руководство по британской и американской культуре, Оксфордский английский словарь. 2005