Leonard Bentley
New Scotland Yard
This is Wednesday 17th May 1967 and HM Queen Elizabeth II has just paid a visit to the brand new headquarters of the Metropolitan Police in Broadway, SW1. I believe that this photograph may have been taken by my mother who worked in the Restaurant at NSY. She had previously worked at Cannon Row in the canteen but had been persuaded to move to the new building when the old New Scotland Yard moved from Victoria Embankment. The next incarnation of New Scotland Yard will be the Curtis Green building on Victoria Embankment which was originally built in the 1930s as overflow accommodation for New Scotland Yard. The Broadway headquarters now holds the record of being the shortest lived HQ of the Metropolitan Police so far, a mere forty nine years.
New Scotland Yard
This is Wednesday 17th May 1967 and HM Queen Elizabeth II has just paid a visit to the brand new headquarters of the Metropolitan Police in Broadway, SW1. I believe that this photograph may have been taken by my mother who worked in the Restaurant at NSY. She had previously worked at Cannon Row in the canteen but had been persuaded to move to the new building when the old New Scotland Yard moved from Victoria Embankment. The next incarnation of New Scotland Yard will be the Curtis Green building on Victoria Embankment which was originally built in the 1930s as overflow accommodation for New Scotland Yard. The Broadway headquarters now holds the record of being the shortest lived HQ of the Metropolitan Police so far, a mere forty nine years.