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DJ, the police only hold bikes for 28 days these days.
But if there's no serial number and the bike might have been stolen sometime in the last fifty years, is there really any point?
I wouldn't personally lose any sleep about a bike that might have been stolen years ago. But that's just me. If the OP is worried, do what you need to via the rozzers, then the frame will be completely legally yours, even if it was once stolen.
BTW, if you pick a nick with no bike lockup (like Watford, for example) then they'll ask you to hold onto the frame for them. So you can actually be measuring for what you need and buying the bits during the 28 days you're holding the bike for the police, before you get the bit of paperwork that says it's yours forever. Once that's happened, even if the original owner does appear, the bike is still yours - they missed their window of opportunity and they can't take it back - just in case you were worried.