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... including an outing for Harry Daley (https://t.co/yUzdZpeKPO) ! #LGBThistory #PoliceHistory #ThursdayThoughts https://t.co/oFLlVHy1hA
A watercolour now in the @BritishMuseum (1; https://t.co/PmsvpexZl8) seems to show some artistic licence, with PC Brown catching Oxford in the act (2) and a mounted Met officer present (3), neither of which were mentioned at the trial. #OTD #OnThisDay #OnThisDayInHistory
@squaremileplod @PaiviTen @MPSHammFul @MPSIslington @MPSClaphamTown @MPSClaphamCom @EpsomEwellBeat @EpsomRacecourse @EEWomensMuseum @NHRMuseum @SurreyHeritage @IslingtonMuseum @IslingtonLHC @Better_WHS ... of the most imposing men on a division and usually the first to be called upon for big events and public duties. Growing up just off Wandsworth Road, Bunn (1869-1955) had been a Gunner in the Royal Marine Artillery aboard the cruiser HMS Iris (pic c/o @RMGreenwich) …
The first well-known dog to work for the Met was Smoker, a Spitsbergen 'canine detective' used to search the soon-to-be site of New Scotland Yard in 1888. #LBLMAanimals #LFBMPSMuseums #animals
Remembering every Met #GoodBoy on #InternationalDogDay, from Smoker the 1888 "Canine Detective" (1), via the first official ones (2 - @MPSPeckham, 1938), to @PD_DexterWBDOG (3), who visited us earlier this year to donate a name-patch to us ... #DogsOfTwitter #TongueOutTuesday
@JasonClauson @colpolicemuseum @NAM_London @NatMuseumRN @RAFMUSEUM @DixNoonanWebb @SpinkandSon @Moneymedalsnet Haven't seen a London river policeman with that as a cap badge before, whilst I'd expect a naval signaller to have crossed flags as a sleeve badge rather than on the cap. @signalsmuseum might know better, but I believe @R_Signals was always Mercury as below? Sorry!
#DidYouKnow we not only hold busts of our founder Robert Peel and first Commissioner Richard Mayne, but also advise on the portraits of them held at Hendon alongside a more recent series of Commissioners' portraits culminating in one from 2019 (3)? #WorldArtDay #WorldArtDay2021
We only hold three oil paintings, but on occasions like #WorldArtDay we love to give a helmet tip to @GuildhallArt's portrait of PC Harry Daley by Duncan Grant. They were introduced via gay writer JR Ackerley, whom Daley had met soon after seeing a play by him at @LyricHammer.
Joseph Simpson #DiedOnThisDay in 1968, the first Met Commissioner to have joined as a PC and one of only two to die in office. Ten days later his body lay in state in the foyer of New Scotland Yard, which had reopened at 10 Broadway near @wabbey the previous year. #OnThisDay #OTD