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
According to Wikipedia St James' Day is either 25 July, 30 April or 13 May, depending on which calendar you use.
The architects of the 1933 building were Mewes & Davis (inscribed on a stone near the entrance), and of the 1964 building, Julian Sof...
Discovering London took great delight in proving that the "cells" in the pub next door, the Viaduct, are, contrary to urban myth, nothing...
Kwame Nkrumah, 1909 - 1972, first President of Ghana, lived here, 1945 - 1947. English Heritage
J.A.R. Newlands, 1837 - 1898, chemist and discoverer of the periodic law for the chemical elements, was born and raised here. Royal Socie...
School in Hayes, in the Borough of Hillingdon at which George Orwell taught from 1932 - 1933. He is top right in the photograph.
The Netherlands were invaded by Nazi Germany on the 10th May 1940. Queen Wilhelmina had planned to go to the southern province of Zeeland to co-ordinate resistance, but when it came under attack fr...
Politician and social reformer. Born as Arabella Susan Lawrence.
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