Site of Scotland Yard, first headquarters of the Metropolitan Police, 1829 - 1890.
Greater London Council
SW1, Whitehall Place, 4
We understand the Public Carriage Office was at this address and it was the back entrance, in Great Scotland Yard, which was used for police business.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Police at Scotland Yard
Founded in 1829 by Robert Peel under the Metropolitan Police Act 1829 and on ...
The first headquarters of the Metropolitan Police were named after the entran...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Police at Scotland Yard
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...
Matthew Bell realised that The Great Rising lacked a proper memorial and that this bay was ready and waiting. It took some effort, and a...
Grim's Dyke was designed by R. N. Shaw in 1872 for Frederick Goodall. He sold in 1880 to Robert Herriot of Hambros Bank from whom, Gilber...
In our photo the plaque can be seen to the left of the pale blue street sign. There is an identical plaque at the other end of the subway.
The Freemasons commissioned this memorial to mark the 300th anniversary of The United Grand Lodge of England in 2017 and the centenary of...
His grand-daughter Clare was present at the unveiling, which was done by two local children.
First documented in 1674, at its largest the farmland was bounded by High Road, Ballards Lane, Long Lane, Squire's Lane. The Cobley family owned it from 1680 to 1902 when it was sold, the building...
In 1765 John Taylor and Sampson Lloyd set up a private banking business in Birmingham. In 1810, the Reverend Henry Duncan of Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire, set up a bank to help his poorest parishioners...
Initiated the Evening Standard's appeal to replace London's lost trees. For 42 years McGill was a columnist with the Evening Standard and was co-creator, with the illustrator Dominic Poelsma, of th...
