• Continue down Whitehall to the entrance to Richmond Terrace for the next blue plaque…
   

Sir Henry Morton Stanley, (picture opposite) was the famous Welsh explorer who found the medical missionary David Livingstone who had gone missing for several years in Africa. Stanley was immensely famous in his day but his reputation has more recently been compromised by his association with the slavery and dreadful working conditions in the Belgian colony of the Congo in the period from 1885 to 1908. At the time, this was a colony under the personal rule of King Leopold II of Belgium. These atrocities were sometimes collectively referred to by European contemporaries as the "Congo Horrors”. (Access to this road is restricted and the blue plaque can only be viewed from a distance).   ///digit.stir.hood

Across Whitehall you will see the entrance to Downing Street where the Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer have their official residences andoffices at Numbers 10 and 11. Security gates are in place so it’s sometimes difficult to see the buildings.   ///slurs.this.shark