Strictly speaking, then, that in London called the smallest police station, has never been a real plot. Rather, it is a small police box - unusual form and in an unexpected place.

If you come to Trafalgar Square from the Strand, in the corner of the famous square, next to the monument to General Henry Havelock, it is this booth. It can be mistaken for a simple lamp post - top and really sticks out pretty lights. But in the massive base - the door, and the walls - windows, narrow, like loopholes.

Initially, it was really a lamppost. Exactly the same, only without doors and windows, it is in the other corner of the square next to the monument to General Charles James Napier. These lights installed around 1826, and some historians suggest that their lamps taken from the battleship "Victory" on board in the Battle of Trafalgar was mortally wounded Admiral Nelson.

A hundred years is one of the pillars turned into an unusual police box. What for? Here is how it was. More after the First World War from the nearest metro station "Charing Cross" established a temporary police booth. In 1926 began the reconstruction of the station, Booth began to interfere, try to put it right on Trafalgar Square, but the public protested. Then, in charge of the work of Sir Lionel Edwards he offered to arrange a Scotland Yard police box at the base of a lamppost. This exotic suggestion was quickly accepted.

Rather, its role was played by a general strike, which is May 3, 1926 announced nearly two million British workers - miners, dockers, railway workers, drivers, employees of power stations, printers. The strike lasted for ten days, and the government to deal with it (in particular, with the help of the citizens, who, believing that the strikers "put a gun to the head of the nation", volunteered instead). But violent protests in Trafalgar Square was certainly made Scotland Yard quickly make a decision about the police box - an area should not have been left unattended.

Lamppost hollowed out from the inside - so that he could fit one person have done in the walls of the window through which the attendant watching going on. In addition, the had a direct telephone connection with Scotland Yard. When the phone rang, the lantern at the top starts to flash, indicating a passing police that there need help.

Now this unique place is not used as a booth. If curious tourists look into the "loopholes" that will see do not miss "Bobby" and brooms - street cleaners store their equipment is now here.