Police in Westbourne, Queen's Park in 1900?

[AsH62]

A coincidence? Probably then but it niggles away in my mind.
Thank you for spotting this.
A

[rosie99]

Her absent husband is a railway guard, and most other men on the street are employed on the railways or in engineering occupations (perhaps there was an engineering works nearby).

W H Allen 
https://www.whaea.co.uk/
(My uncles worked there  )

[johnP-bedford]

Have you got her birth certificate ?  if so where was place of birth?, who was the informant? & father's occupation? 

[AsH62]

Hi JohP

I am waiting for it to arrive any day now and then I may find out more.A

[ShaunJ]

Police forces are not and were not organised nationally. He was presumably in the  Hampshire County Constabulary so he would not have joined them in Bedfordshire or Dorset, but it is conceivable that he was living at the Westbourne Road address in Bedford when he applied.

Have you got a copy of his police force record from https://www.hampshireconstabularyhistory.org.uk/history/family-research/  ?

[AsH62]

Hi.
Thank you, that clarifies a thought, I assumed that there was national centre for training but if he joined the Hampshire Constabulary then Bedford might be a red herring.
A

[johnP-bedford]

Hiya... have you get the birth cert yet ?  What did it tell you.

[AsH62]

Yes, and sadly it didn't give much away at all. It looks as if she was born at her aunt's house in Bedford although the house number is wrong. Her father isn't there and the witness was the mother. So frustrating!

[johnP-bedford]

So she was registered as Olive Legg born 4 April 1900 and the witness/informant was her mother Beatrice Legg - not Beck, despite Beatrice Beck not marrying Edmund George Legg until 31 May 1900 at Buckland Newton, Dorset

Bedford Directory for 1901 (as up to 30 Nov 1900) has living at 64 Westbourne Road an Arthur Westcott anotated MR meaning Midland Railway. He was not there on later years. On 1901 census Arthur Wescott age 26 married born Bedford, railway relief man, boarding at Radlett, Herts. There are a number of railway employment records for him on Ancestry & he ends up as station master at Turvey station.

Also have you found this... http://grandadbeck.co.uk/20-2/

Regards John