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===Bow Street Magistrates' Court building===
{{Main|Bow Street Magistrates' Court|Bow Street Police Museum}}
[[File:Former Magistrates Court, Bow Street (geograph 5360286).jpg|thumb|Magistrates Court building in 2013]]

The building, opposite the [[Royal Opera House]], was opened in 1881 to house both a [[Magistrates' court (England and Wales)|Magistrates' Court]] and a [[Bow Street Police Station|police station]]. As well as dealing with local petty criminals, a number of high-profile defendants appeared in the court, including [[Oscar Wilde]], [[Hawley Harvey Crippen|Dr Crippen]] and the [[Kray twins]], and those facing [[extradition]] proceedings, such as [[Augusto Pinochet]] and [[James Earl Ray]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Brown |first=Mark |date=27 May 2021 |title=Not like I remember it': Bow Street police station reopens as museum |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/27/bow-street-police-station-reopens-museum-london |access-date=15 June 2021 |work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref>

The police station closed in 1992, with its work moving to the more modern Charing Cross police station.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-55347268 |title=London's Bow Street Police Station to be turned into museum |date=18 December 2020 |publisher=[[BBC News]] |access-date=15 June 2021}}</ref> The court building's [[listed building|Grade II listed]] status meant it was not economic to update it to modern standards and the court closed in July 2006.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Weinreb |first1=Ben |last2=Hibbert |first2=Christopher |last3=Keay |first3=Julia |last4=Keay |first4=John |title=The London Encyclopedia |page=86 |publisher=Pan MacMillan |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-4050-4924-5}}</ref> Sold to developers, [[Planning permission in the United Kingdom|planning permission]] was obtained to convert the building into a hotel and museum.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rise.eu.com/what-we-think/our-news/rise-build-the-bow-st-hotel |title=Appointment of construction manager for conversion of Bow Street Magistrates' Court into luxury Boutique Hotel |last=RISE Management |first=Consulting news |year=2015 |access-date=16 June 2021 |archive-date=6 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150506220945/http://rise.eu.com/what-we-think/our-news/rise-build-the-bow-st-hotel |url-status=dead}} (Access date 15 June 2021)</ref> A 91-room hotel and a public restaurant, run by the New York based [[The NoMad|NoMad chain]], opened in May 2021, as did a [[Bow Street Police Museum|museum of local police history]] in the former police station.<ref>{{Cite news |last=O’Flaherty |first=Mark |date=28 May 2021 |title=London's most famous courtroom is now the capital's hottest hotel |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/londons-famous-courtroom-now-capitals-hottest-hotel/ |access-date=15 June 2021 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]}}</ref>