‘Not like I remember it’: Bow Street police station reopens as museum

London attraction will tell stories of figures connected to courthouse and station from Oscar Wilde to Krays

It is the stench that Lee-Jane Yates remembers vividly. It was so rancid," she said. But then it was from a small cell that sometimes housed a double-figure number of men, held there overnight after being arrested for drunken behaviour.

Today the cell, nicknamed the tank", is clean, odour-free and ready to welcome visitors to the UK's newest independent museum, one telling the story of Bow Street police station and magistrates court in London.