Metropolitan Police
SW1, Victoria Embankment, Victoria Embankment Gardens - Whitehall section
The building behind is the former Air Ministry. We thank Jamie Davis for finding this link to the British Pathe news film of the unveiling. Laid into the platform are four bronze badges, anti-clockwise: RAF, RSF, Met Police, WAFF. They are rather fine so we have treated each one as a memorial.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Trenchard - Metropolitan Police
Founded in 1829 by Robert Peel under the Metropolitan Police Act 1829 and on ...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Trenchard - Metropolitan Police
Linda and Paul met when they both attended a Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames gig here.
Chosen as our featured memorial in July 2004. The decadent relationship lived by this outrageous pair has left a trail of plaques across ...
Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ, 1844 - 1889, priest and poet, lived in Oakhill Park 1852 - 1863. "The World is charged with the grandeur of Go...
Professor Slobodan Yovanovitch, 1869-1958, Serbian historian, literary critic, legal scholar, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, lived here, 1...
The 1830 map has the Duffield Sluice marked on the river bank just to the north-west of this building, where there is now a patch of gree...
Not the style but the high quality of this plaque reminds us of the one on Lorne House, unveiled by the Princess of Wales the following y...
Ornamental Passions have a good post about the grand mansion at the end of this 1770s development.
This page brings together all the memorials that we have for civilians killed in London by acts of war, including terrorism. It is related to a very interesting campaign for a Citizens Memorial "to...
This voyage took place 16 years before the Mayflower. The memorial has a history of its own. British History Online (text and plan) and ...
Born Glasgow. Reid was his mother's maiden name. Other work in London: 1936 - Boy with Frog fountain in Regent's Park and The Herald at 85 Fleet Street. Died at home in 16 Maida Vale in the house...
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