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...
The blue plaque was unveiled by Quant's son Orlando Plunkett Greene in September 2019 and by August 2020 it had been replaced with the pu...
Built for the Salvation Army in 1910. Their Women's Social Work HQ moved here in 1911 from offices at another nearby Salvation Army addr...
John Lewis silk mercer of Oxford Street resided at Spedan Tower, Hampstead from 1888 to 1928 as did his elder son John Spedan Lewis, late...
Arthur Mee, 1875 - 1943, journalist, author and topographer lived here. English Heritage
Poplar Town Hall, 1938 - 1965, Architect: Clifford Culpin Bow Heritage Trail
Possibly the oldest surviving free thought organisation in the world, and the only remaining Ethical society in the UK. Originated as a religious group, allied to the Baptists. By 1793 they had the...
German Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, 2002 - 2006.
Lord George Francis Hamilton was a Conservative politician. First Lord of the Admiralty and Secretary of State for India. MP for the Ealing Division of Middlesex Third son of James Hamilton, 1st D...
1940 the Committee for Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA) was set up by Royal Charter. About 1946 it became the Arts Council of Great Britain and in 1994 it was split into national bodies,...
2018: This Bauhaus-esque building now provides student accommodation. Built by Willen Key and Hardware Co. to replace their WW2-destroyed...
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