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Street sign of Great Scotland Yard. Although the etymology is not certain, according to a 1964 article in The New York Times, the name derives from buildings that accommodated the diplomatic representatives of the Kingdom of Scotland and the Scottish kings when they visited the English court [2] – in effect, acting as the Scottish embassy, although such an institution was not formalized.
Whitehall 1212 was the telephone number of Scotland Yard. [1] [2] It was introduced in 1932 [3] (having previously been Victoria 7000) and was used by the public to contact the London Metropolitan Police Service information room for both emergency and non-emergency business. [4] Telephone exchanges had names at the time. In some parts of the ...
Scotland Yard (officially New Scotland Yard) is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police, the territorial police force responsible for policing Greater London's 32 boroughs. Its name derives from the location of the original Metropolitan Police headquarters at 4 Whitehall Place , which had its main public entrance on the Westminster street ...
Old Toronto: Living: A living history museum of a Victorian-era period schoolhouse. The museum is housed in a schoolhouse dating back to 1848. The building was converted into a living history museum in 1970. [18] Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery: Eatonville: Etobicoke: Art: The gallery is housed in the centre block of the Etobicoke Civic ...
Whitehall 1212, named after the then famous telephone number of New Scotland Yard—the headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police Force—was written and directed by Wyllis Cooper and broadcast by NBC.
The buildings had been lodgings for the Kings of Scotland, on part of the old Palace of Whitehall's grounds; by the 19th century, Little and Middle Scotland Yard had been merged into Whitehall Place, leaving only Great Scotland Yard. No. 4 Whitehall Place had become vacant by the 1820s, which allowed Sir Robert Peel to use it as the main ...
This allowed the MOD to dispose of five buildings in central London, these being Northumberland House, the Metropole Building, Great Scotland Yard, St. Giles Court and St Christopher House. [ 3 ] The building was handed back to the MOD in July 2004 and re-occupation by 3,150 staff was completed in September 2004, two months ahead of schedule.
The regiment's museum was formerly at the Fort York Armoury in Toronto. The museum was opened in 1984 by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. In September 2009, the museum was relocated to the Captain Bellenden Seymore Hutcheson VC Armoury in Etobicoke and officially re-opened on 1 May 2010. The museum includes uniforms, weapons, artifacts and ...