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Steelhouse Lane closure
Station closes
for final time
A station that once housed serial killer years. The original ‘lock up’ was opened in operation in the country.
Fred West and was a temporary 1892 and occupied by what was then known But time was called on the dated
home for the original ‘Peaky as Birmingham City Police. At the time it building as the doors opened to the Force’s
Blinders’ has closed its doors for the final consisted of a Victorian-era custody block new custom built Lloyd House, which is
time. which is now a Grade II listed building. And based within nearby police headquarters.
The Steelhouse Lane site had been part up until its operational closure last year it
of West Midlands Police for the last 125 was one of the oldest custody facilities in Continued on Pages 18 and 19
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