1888 Met Police whistle ( Comercial St )

[GUT]

My dad had a matching one from when he was in the RAF Police in the 50/60s. Along with a long, thin, silent (to us) whistle for calling his police dog. When I was a kid I was always blowing it just to watch the dog tilt his head and look at me.

My Mutt just ignores the "Dog whistle".

[yen_powell]

My Mutt just ignores the "Dog whistle".

To be fair, he could just have been looking at me and wondering why I was stupid enough to be blowing down a silver stick.

[Pcdunn]

I have a replica police whistle someone brought me back as a souvenir in the 1970s or 80s, and I can tell from looking at these antique ones that the general design hasn't changed! Interesting to see the pics, thank you all for sharing them.

[The Station Cat]

Excellent Moonbegger,

The address indicates a late 1888 - 1909 make. Can I ask, is there a serial number on it?

Monty

Curious to know what the serial number on the whistles will tell us?

[NotBlamedForNothing]

Is it possible we could get an audio recording of one of these whistles being blown?

[Wickerman]

Here's a link that might interest someone...
If you slide down the page there's lots of info.

http://www.whistlemuseum.com/2016/11/11/dating-of-hudson-tube-whistles-news-pre-post-victorian-times-by-stamps/

[NotBlamedForNothing]

Here's a link that might interest someone...
If you slide down the page there's lots of info.
http://www.whistlemuseum.com/2016/11...mes-by-stamps/

An interesting and detailed article. Thanks Jon.

[Wickerman]

Here's what the London Police Whistle sounds like.

https://youtu.be/6kG6mxtH87c

Here's another video with a selection of whistles of the same design, and how thy sound.

https://youtu.be/1fjPLXDD3lc

[NotBlamedForNothing]

Here's what the London Police Whistle sounds like.

https://youtu.be/6kG6mxtH87c

Here's another video with a selection of whistles of the same design, and how thy sound.
https://youtu.be/1fjPLXDD3lc

Thanks again, Jon. Hearing that sound is like momentarily jumping back in time.

[Ms Diddles]

A friend of mine just gave me a Metropolitan Police whistle allegedly from the 1880's as a belated 50th birthday present.

I am terribly excited about it and tried to post a picture of it here, but I just keep getting error messages whenever I try to upload it.

Does anyone know if there is currently an issue with the upload function or is it more likely my knackered old phone?

Any ideas?

[Wickerman]

Try the copy-paste method, it seems to work, ok.

[Herlock Sholmes]

A friend of mine just gave me a Metropolitan Police whistle allegedly from the 1880's as a belated 50th birthday present.

I am terribly excited about it and tried to post a picture of it here, but I just keep getting error messages whenever I try to upload it.

Does anyone know if there is currently an issue with the upload function or is it more likely my knackered old phone?

Any ideas?

A belated happy birthday Ms D Sadly in December I hit 60.

[Ms Diddles]

Try the copy-paste method, it seems to work, ok.

Thanks Wick!

I still can't seem to get it to work though on my phone for some reason.

I'll try to do it next time I'm on my laptop

[Ms Diddles]

A belated happy birthday Ms D Sadly in December I hit 60.

Thanks Herlock!

It was actually back in January, but I'm still in shock at hitting the big 5-0.

It feels like yesterday I was turning 21, and I'm really not sure where the intervening years have gone!

[Herlock Sholmes]

Thanks Herlock!

It was actually back in January, but I'm still in shock at hitting the big 5-0.

It feels like yesterday I was turning 21, and I'm really not sure where the intervening years have gone!

I know how you feel. How can it be that I’m 60 in December and yet I was 35 just 5 years ago.

The weird thing is that it’s only been this year that I’ve never had so many aches and pains and twinges.