Site of Scotland Yard, first headquarters of the Metropolitan Police, 1829 - 1890.
Greater London Council
SW1, Whitehall Place, 4
We understand the Public Carriage Office was at this address and it was the back entrance, in Great Scotland Yard, which was used for police business.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Police at Scotland Yard
Founded in 1829 by Robert Peel under the Metropolitan Police Act 1829 and on ...
The first headquarters of the Metropolitan Police were named after the entran...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Police at Scotland Yard
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...
The plaque is on the wall beside the steps. It's a pity that the paint-brush operative hadn't been better trained. Queen's Park was offi...
The opening of a temporary library seems a rather minor event for which to get a King out of bed. Given the date perhaps the war had dama...
This 1895 map has some remarkable detailing of the building (a wide spiral staircase and elsewhere castellated walls with, in Gothic scri...
Annie Besant, 1847 - 1933, social reformer, lived here in 1874. London County Council
Andrew Lang, 1844 - 1912, man of letters lived here in 1876 - 1912. London County Council
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