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
The image on the plaque is taken from Merry-Go-Round, Mark Gertler's 1916 painting, possibly inspired by the roundabout at the annual Ham...
These lovely ceramics plaques were installed some time in or before 2008. There are 12 oval ceramics of which 7 nos 1-7) are mosaic and r...
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...
From the wording and the style, these plaques must have been erected along with the 1877 clock tower. The impetus behind both the constru...
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. He was born as Gavin A. V. Eales-White on 15 November 1953 in Nottinghamshire, the third son of the Revere...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
British secret agent in WW2. Born in Paris as Violette Bushell of a French mother and English father who met in WW1. With 4 brothers she was a bit of a tomboy. From Violette Szabo Museum "The Bushe...
Born 10 York Street. Painter. He entered the Royal Academy in 1858, winning two silver medals. His reputation rests on his portraiture of many prominent people. His painting of the Princess of Wal...
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