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
J. D. Gilbert Esq. Chairman of the Fire Brigade Committee of the London County Council laid this stone on the 24th day of June 1901.
Yes, there are two different (but correct) spellings of the name of the borough, even on the same plaque (Harringay / Haringey). Actor J...
Both Wikipedia and The Guardian spell the name with one 'd'.
The plaque refers to the unveiling day being 'Election Day'. There was no General Election in 1956. The Lord Mayor's election to office d...
We first heard about this plaque a long time ago and can't remember where, but at Atlants lv: "Coca-Cola first arrived in Great Britain i...
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