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View towards Lambeth from Vauxhall Bridge. (Larger).
The left bank is Millbank (part of the Thames Embankment designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette in the 19th century), with the skyline dominated by the Millbank Tower. Millbank takes its name from the Westminster Abbey Mill which once stood at the end of what is now Great College Street.
The right bank is the Albert Embankment which was created by Sir Joseph Bazalgette between July 1866 and November 1869 and was intended to protect low-lying areas of Lambeth from flooding while also providing a new highway to bypass local congested streets. Albert Embankment is named for Queen Victoria's Prince Consort.
The building with the strong red reflections is a hotel (I think); I've walked past it many times but I can't recall its name right now.
The bridge in the middle is the Lambeth Bridge . . . not my favorite bridge to photograph; it was built and designed between 1929 - 1932 by Sir George Humphreys
Yesterday was a trip to the Minninglow area. Here are the two big stone embankments of the Cromford & High Peak Railway taken from the slopes of Minninglow Hill itself. The trees and spoil just left of centre above the embankment mark a deep quarry from which silica rich materials were extracted and carried by tramway to a brickworks just off the left end. This manufactured a range of refractory bricks in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
A stitch of three images and best viewed large.
Europe, Spain, Malaga, Río Guadalmedina, Embankment, MAUS institutional grafitti, Kennu Scharf, People, Painter (slightly cut from all sides).
The institutional street art of the MAUS project is a significant visual aspect of the city centre of Malaga. This elongated piece was created by Kenny Scharf (1958).
This is number 41 of the Graffiti / Street art album.
Passing the recently cleared embankments 221131 is on the climb from Penzance towards St.Erth. Distant signal for single line section at Marazion is visible on the down. This is the first week of the 2023 summer timetable which sees two Cross Country departures from Penzance at 06:28 and 08:37, both to Edinburgh. The 09:25 departure now starts Plymouth and also the 22:08 Penzance to Plymouth is lost meaning the last train of the day from Penzance is now a hour earlier (Sleeper is pick up only through Cornwall). This also means the last train from Newquay has no connection to Plymouth and from Falmouth and St.Ives you have to leave earlier. Progress????
1S47 08:37 Penzance to Edinburgh.
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This is the view of London which the young lady in my previous story was interested in.
The foreground pier is the Embankment Pier; the pier opposite is the Festival Pier and the bridge is Waterloo Bridge.
After the Eye, this is probably the most popular view to photograph in London so I was reluctant to post it but I wanted to show what the young lady was interested in.
(This was shot minutes before the previous picture)
Moscow
Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building is one of seven stalinist skyscrapers laid down in September, 1947 and completed in 1952, designed by Dmitry Chechylin (then Chief Architect of Moscow) and Andrei Rostkovsky. The main tower has 32 levels (including mechanical floors) and is 176 metres (577 ft) tall.
With the Ireland v France rugby game being held at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium the normal city centre road closures were in force on Sunday 11th October. Most bus services from the west of the city were being terminated at Fitzhammon Embankment, including First Cymru's services from Porthcawl and Bridgend. I don't know much about names and makes of modern buses, but these two certainly looked smart.
RhB Class 6/6'' 702 'Curia' heads away from Bever while working Freight 5151, the 13:42 Landquart to Pontresina. Two wagons at the rear of the consist would be delivered to Samedan while the trio of fuel tanks would be taken forward to Pontresina.
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Boxing Day 2020 with the river Ouse bursting its banks, this riverside bench appears to float on water with the river bridge displaying its Thank You NHS banner as a reminder of the severe conditions that we endured in 2020.
Cleopatra's Needle
It was originally erected in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis on the orders of Thutmose III, around 1450 BC. In 1819, Muhammad Ali Pasha gave Britain the obelisk as a gift. However, Britain's prime minister at the time, Lord Liverpool, hesitated on having it brought to the country due to shipping expenses. It remained in Alexandria until October 1877 when its transport to London was funded by William James Erasmus Wilson.
Shell-Mex House
Shell Mex House is a grade II listed building located at number 80 Strand in London, England. The building was opened in 1932 on the site of the Hotel Cecil and stands behind the original façade of the hotel, between the Adelphi building and the Savoy Hotel. Broadly Art Deco in style, it was designed by Frances Milton Cashmore of the architectural firm of Messrs Joseph.
Standing 190 ft tall, with 537,000 sq ft of floor space, Shell Mex House has 12 floors (plus basement and sub-basement) and is immediately recognizable from the River Thames and the South Bank by the clock positioned on the south side of the building (flanked by two large, hieratic figures at the south corners in marble by the sculptor William Charles Holland King). The clock, which was known for a time as "Big Benzene", has the biggest clock face in the UK, at 7.62 metres in diameter, just 0.02 metres more than the clocks on the Liver Building in Liverpool; it was supplied by Gillett & Johnston of Croydon. The building faces the river and the Strand.
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There was a Rock Pipit hopping around the little beach by the Step Rock/Bruce Embankment, shortly afterward I saw this and initially it looked to be the same bird, but then the difference was enough to show him (her?) to be a Dunnock instead. It looked rather lost, aimlessly hopping around and fluffing its plumage as if to keep warmer. While I watched it for several minutes it didn't seem to find anything worth picking up. I didn't last too long there myself, my hands became too cold for comfort so I gave it best and took the car to the harbour for a quick check there before off home for some hot coffee. The R.Pipit didn't produce any postable shots.