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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Hugo Vivian Hope Throssell, VC

Hugo Vivian Hope Throssell, VC

Awarded the VC for his heroism on 29-30 August 1915, age 30, while serving in the 10th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Imperial Force. "Although severely wounded he refused to leave his post until...

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
G. E. Taylor

G. E. Taylor

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
Flight Lieutenant Coburn Clark King

Flight Lieutenant Coburn Clark King

Coburn Clark King was born on 28 April 1908 in Oregon, Holt County, Missouri, USA the youngest of the six children of Alonzo Wilmer King (1850-1930) and his second wife Julia Ellen King née Thuma (...

Person, Armed Forces, USA

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Sam Meek

Sam Meek

Resident of the West Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Navy Office, Seething Lane

Navy Office, Seething Lane

Built on the site of Walsingham's mansion, this was the Navy Office in which Samuel Pepys lived and worked.  Survived the Great Fire partly due to Pepys' efforts.  Destroyed by another fire in 1673...

Building, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration

2 memorials