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...
December 2016: The Mail, The Telegraph and the Brussels Times all report on the removal of a foundation plaque at Queen Mary's. In April...
A London County Council plaque was erected here at what was number 7 Lawrie Park Road. When that building was demolished in the 1960s the...
A.J.P. Taylor 1906 - 1990, historian and broadcaster lived here. English Heritage
This cast-iron roundel, showing keys and doorbells, is one of 22 - see Bowler's page for more details.
These plaques mark property boudaries and identify ownership.
Edward Frederic. Writer best know for the Mapp and Lucia series set in the village of Tilling, actually Rye, which Benson first visited to see Henry James who was staying there. Born Wellington C...
Their coat of arms shows two women; one dressed as a Grecian godess, the other in a Victorian style uniform but both engaged in the labour of laundry. In contrast the 'about us' page of their webs...
This charity was founded at the start of WW1 by Arthur Pearson, the newspaper magnate who became blind in later life, as The Blinded Soldiers' and Sailors' Care Committee. February 1915 it opened t...
Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them