New Scotland Yard is the name of the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police, the police force responsible for most of Greater London. The name comes from Great Scotland Yard, a street off Whitehall where the force first set up its base, and it was carried to later buildings as the headquarters moved. The first purpose-built New Scotland Yard, designed by Richard Norman Shaw, stands on the Victoria Embankment, and a distinctive revolving sign outside a later building became a well-known image. In 2016 the headquarters moved to the Curtis Green Building on the Embankment, a 1930s structure. The words Scotland Yard are also used in everyday speech to mean the force's detective work.
Before and after
- 11 October 1889Death of James Prescott Joule
- 14 November 1889Birth of Jawaharlal Nehru
- 20 November 1889Birth of Edwin Hubble
- 1890Founding of University of Chicago
- 1890Opening of New Scotland Yard
- 1890Rise of Art Nouveau
- 1890Publication of The Picture of Dorian Gray
- 25 January 1890Founding of Sevilla FC
- 29 January 1890Birth of Boris Pasternak
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- 31 March 1889Construction of Eiffel Tower
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The era
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