Old Police Cells Museum

The Old Police Cells Museum sits beneath the Brighton Town Hall, marked by a heavy, unassuming door that leads directly into the subterranean holding area of the nineteenth-century force. Behind these thick stone walls, Victorian constables processed local offenders, from rowdy sailors to protestors. In nineteen twenty-one, the Chief Constable Charles Berry famously sat in these very cells, having been arrested for his own involvement in a complicated blackmail scandal. The iron bars and original graffiti remain exactly where they were left.