I used to work near New Scotland Yard and often enjoyed
watching the camera crews line up to film in front of
the?hideous gigantic 'cheese slice' metal thing that carries
the name, and which most British TV viewers will be very
familiar with, it is a particularly brutalist building, but
anyone visiting London will find lots more of interest in the
back streets nearby surrounding St James' Park Underground
station.?Sherlock Holmes would now be shot for fear of an
eccentric retro-terrorist attack were he to approach in full
cape and deerstalker combo, it also features gun-toting
coppers aplenty - as now do many Government sites in London
and elsewhere - a sight I still find unnerving and
saddening?in a country that used to proudly boast it did not
need to arm its officers of the law.?
The place I used to work, incidently (and OT, sorry) was The
City Of Westminster Archives Centre in nearby St Ann's
Street, a fascinating, fully open to the public collection of
books, images and archives relating to the City and filled
with dirty secrets from London's dity past (Harris' Book of
Covent Garden Ladies anyone), a real noir place in the
Asphalt Jungle and well worth a visit if you're in the
area.?
Kind regards,?
Colin. ?
-----Original Message----- From: JIM DOHERTY <
jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com> To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 7:04
pm Subject: RARA-AVIS: Re: how old is the New Scotland
Yard?
Dave,
The first HQ of the London Metro Police was in a building
near Buck House that was designated as the
home-away-from-home for visitng Scottish royalty called
Scotland Yard.
Sometime in the late 19th Century it moved to what Orson
Welles called a "grim, stone structure on the Thames," which
was called "New Scotland Yard," to differentiate it from the
original HQ.
In the late '60's it moved to a rather nondescript glass and
steel skyscraper. Technically, the new quarters should have
been called "Newer Scotland Yard," but the name "New Scotland
Yard" was retained.
I believe the old "New Scotland Yard" is still the repository
for the Black Museum, now known officially as the "Crime
Museum," though it's not really a museum in the sense that
it's open to the public.
JIM DOHERTY
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