EVERLASTING LIGHT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 3 January 1927, Page 10

EVERLASTING LIGHT

LAMP THAT ALWAYS BURNS

STRANGE WAR MEMORIAL

Scotland Yard, storehouse of the Underworld's secrets, lias a lamp winch is never put out. It stands in a long, wide sorridov which might he called the corridor of secrets, leading to the room of the "chief" of London's police force. It is a large lamp, not unlike one of London's street lanterns. Its glass panels have been dulled, to subdue its beams. There is something sepulchral about this shaded light in the corridor of secrets. It is only when one approaches close to it in the daytime that he knows tlie lamp is still burning. It has been alight for months now, and it will burn as lontf as Scotland Yard remains.

This everlasting light is one of London's simplest war shrines; it is the "Yard's'' memorial to its civil servants who fell in the war, and hears the brief inscription: "In memory of those members of the Civil Service staff of the Metropolitan Police Force who laid down their lives." Tho light burns by day and night in memory of men who will never again pass through the great swinging doors of Scotland Yard.