Where is Scotland Yard?
 

I have done a search on the web, and have narrowed it down to someplace in Westminster. The metropolitan police site is unhelpful. Does anyone know exactly where it is, and if so is there anything to look at? I mean is it worth a visit? Are you allowed in? Or does it just exist as more of a longtime upheld tale, than a site for a wouldbe tourist to come and see? Thank You for any help provided.

<BR>Here is a website that gives some insight to the origination of the name Scotland Yard. <BR> <BR>http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20001122.html

Melissa, <BR>Scotland Yard no longer exists. The Metropolitan police were originally housed in that part of Whitehall Palace where visiting Scottish kings stayed, thus the name Scotland Yard. In 1891, New Scotland Yard was built on Victoria's Embankment about a quarter of a mile south of Whitehall. In the 1960s they were moved once again to (New)New Scotland Yard on Dacre Street which is indeed in Westminster and forms a triangle with Victoria Street and Broadway. It looks very much like a twenty story glass filing cabinet and is absolutely characterless. Nothing to see worthwhile, however, if you'd like to gain admittance, you can cable the Metropolitan Police. Their cable address is "Handcuffs,London". <BR> <BR>Go instead to the Museum of London where you'll find a debter's cell from the Wellclose Square lockup and the facade and cell from Newgate Gaol. Then travel on to Beauchamp Tower in the Tower of London where prisoners awaiting their fate, (usually beheading) etched inscriptions into the walls of the cells in which they wre held. <BR>

If I remember right, if you take one of the bus tours of the city, you will pass right by it. <BR>Like wes fowler said, it is nothing to marvel at. <BR>I was not enticed to go inside. <BR>It looked no different than any other office building. <BR>

Melissa, <BR>There is a Crime Museum housed on the first floor in the New Scotland Yard building near Victoria Street however it isn't open to the public. You can find information about it and its contents at: www.met.police.uk/history/crime_museum.htm <BR> <BR>There have been plans, as yet unrealized, to create a Metropolitan Police Museum from materials formerly housed in the Bow Street Magistrate's court and police station opposite the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. Some 30,000 items that would have comprised the collection are now stored in a warehouse in south London unavailable to the public.

It is true it no longer exists and was really more a state of mind formed from those wonderful english detective mysteries. I still watch the repeats of Sherlock Holmes who tangles with Scotland Yard.

New Scotland yard does still have the same telephpone number as "scotland yard" ie Whitehall 1212. The title of a famous British TV programme from the fifties! <BR> <BR>Not a lot of people know that.

Has anyone noticed that this thread has been manipulated (i.e., response removed). I read this yesterday and someones "rude" response has been removed. I can't say I don't mind.

Thank you everyone. As to DJ, I had not looked at this as of yesterday, and wasn't aware of any rude response. I do appreciate everyone's help. I think I will forget about trying to see the "legendary" scotland yard. Better to fondly remember it as in old mystery books and such, than to be disappointed by a modern office building.