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
2019: Eileen Brown informed us that this plaque is mentioned in the novel, 'The L-Shaped Room' by Lynne Reid Banks which means it was ere...
June 2015: Stephen Cleverley reported via Facebook that this plaque has gone missing, leaving just the screw holes behind.
The stone with the 'W', or 'M', looks not to have been created as part of this design. "W' for well?
London County Council Robert Gascoyne Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, 1830 - 1903, Prime Minister, lived here.
Apollo Theatre Originally intended for musicals the Apollo Theatre opened in 1901 with a farce called 'The Belle of Bohemia'. A popular ...
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