Place    From 1907  To 1934

First police training school

Categories: Armed Forces, Education

The first organised training school was opened in 1907 at Peel House in Regency Street, Pimlico. Officer recruits undertook a four-week training course before being posted to their beat. Moved to Hendon.
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First police training school

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First Peelers training school

The bronze panel depicts an everyday scene in London at that time - that of a...

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W. Reid

W. Reid

J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. staff member who died in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
A. Tompkinson

A. Tompkinson

J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. staff member who died in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Luke Allen

Luke Allen

Pilot Officer Luke Elbert Allen was born on 27 December 1917 in Las Animas, Bent, Colorado, USA, the second of the five children of Frank Wilson Allen (1897-1934) and Eugie Mae Allen née Fulbright ...

Person, Armed Forces, USA

War served, WW2
1 memorial
A. Watkins

A. Watkins

Resident of Hendon who served and died in WW2.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Reginald Leonard Haine, VC

Reginald Leonard Haine, VC

Awarded the VC for his heroism on 28-29 April 1917, age 20, while serving in the Honourable Artillery Company. "His superb courage, quick decision and sound judgement were beyond praise. A splendid...

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
3 memorials

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Orange Street Chapel

Orange Street Chapel

Also known as the Leicester Fields chapel. Founded by Huguenot refugees who fled from France at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Occupied: - 1693-1776 by the Huguenots, - 1776-1...

Building, Religion

3 memorials
Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford

Actor. He first came to fame, playing Han Solo in the Star Wars films. He went on to appear as the eponymous archaeologist in the Indiana Jones films. Vice-chair of Conservation International, an o...

Person, Cinema, Seriously Famous, USA

2 memorials
Emil Otto Hoppé

Emil Otto Hoppé

Photographer. Born Munich. Co-founded the London Salon of Photography in 1910. Grandfather of the musician Michael Hoppé. Died Hampshire.

Person, Photography, Germany

1 memorial
Thanet House / Shaftesbury House

Thanet House / Shaftesbury House

Nos. 35-38 Aldersgate Street, built by Inigo Jones. From British History Online: “formerly the London residence of the Tuftons, Earls of Thanet. From them it passed into the family of that clever a...

Building, Property

1 memorial