Private Police Station (1961)

M/S of the Police Station in Paddington, London as a policeman walks down the steps from the door; M/Ss of the blue lamp outside the station, as commentator asks “What happens to old stations, ones that aren’t demolished, that is?“. M/S of a white cube lamp hanging above the door of a house. L/S of this house, a former police station with a high wall around it, as commentator tells us it was built in Ampthill, Bedfordshire in 1805. M/S of a small window with bars across it; C/U of a very faded sign on the side of the doorway, just about reading ’Police Office’; C/U of a new, plastic sign on the wall reading ’The Old Police House’. We hear “the station has been bought as a house by Mr Bernard Laycock, an architect’s assistant“. M/S of a closed cell door, then we see Bernard opening one of the cells with a key from a large bunch. He goes in and sits down to examine a piece of wood for building, then walks out. C/U of a small sign on a door reading ’Sergeants Office’; Bernard walks in and we see it conta