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1938. Victoria Embankment, Westminster, London, SW1. UK.

Metropolitan Police Officers attached to Cannon Row Police Station (Alpha Delta) escort members of the PDSA (People's Dispensary For Sick Animals) en route to Trafalgar Square for a meeting.

 

The officers would be attached to Cannon Row Police Station (Alpha Delta) the Headquarters of the Metropolitan Police's 'A' or Whitehall Division that formed part of the world famous Scotland Yard designed by the Scottish architect Norman Shaw in 1898.

 

Cannon Row Police Station handled all of the major ceremonial occasions in the Capital from 1902 plus the many large demonstrations that took place most weeks on Trafalgar Square, Whitehall, Parliament Square and Downing Street.

 

As well as the above, the station was responsible for the protection of the Monarch and the Royal Family when resident at Buckingham Palace, Clarence House, Holyrood House (Scotland), Balmoral Castle, (Scotland), Castle of Mey (Scotland), Windsor Castle (Berkshire), Royal Lodge, (Berkshire).

 

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Uploaded on March 16, 2015
Taken sometime in 1938