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
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Started by Samuel Gurney MP and the barrister, Edward Thomas Wakefield. Founded as the Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountain Association it changed its name to include cattle troughs in 1867. London...
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for her Protestant beliefs.
From a 2008 interview with Carrie Reichardt: "Black Panther Kenny ‘Zulu’ Whitmore has been locked up since 1975 in Angola, one of the most brutal prisons in the USA, also known as ‘the last slave p...
Person, Law, Race Issues, Tragedy, USA
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