EVERLASTING LIGHT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19736, 4 January 1927, Page 10

EVERLASTING LIGHT

LAMP THAT ALWAYS BURNS STRANGE WAR MEMORIAL Scotland Yard, storehouse of the underworld’s secrets, has a lamp which is never put out. It stands in a long, wide corridor which might be 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 the lamp is still burning. It has been alight for months now, and it will burn as long 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 bears the brief inscription: “In memory of those members of the Civil Service staff of the Metropolitan Police Force who laid down their lives.” The light burns by day and night in memory of men who will never again pass through the great swinging doors of Scotland Yard.