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Bakerloo Line SB. Not many folk about at around 15.30.
iPhone showing its limitations here. (And in cropping PS has stretched the image beyond the LH edge of the original. :-( Sorry, not worth all the faff of removing this and re-posting.)
This is a magic lantern side showing a magnificent portrait of a Sandwich Board man standing near Cleopatra’s Needle on Victoria Embankment. His Sandwich Board is advertising a Firework display at Alexandra Palace on Thursday 20th September but with no year. I believe this is 1888 when the Firework Company of James Pain produced a gigantic display with a “Lake of Fire”, the “of Fire” can be seen on the lower part of the Sandwich Board. Pain's Fireworks and Brock's fireworks were the two largest manufacturers of Fireworks in Victorian England. The competition was fierce, and each had a ready-made venue at which to display their wares. Brock's held displays at Crystal Palace in South London and Pains at Alexandra Palace in North London. The displays at Alexandra Palace were held throughout the summer as well as the usual dates for Firework displays but in 1888 there was an added attraction during the summer. Thomas Scott Baldwin otherwise known as Professor Baldwin, was an American parachutist which was a novel occupation back then. He would ascend to 1000 feet in a Hydrogen balloon sitting on a trapeze like contraption with the parachute already deployed and tied to the side of the balloon, when he jumped his weight broke the retaining bonds and he would float safely back to earth. He was getting crowds of over 60000 people at every performance but the firework display on 20th September outdid even him and crowds of 65000 plus were reported. Baldwin is now recognised as the father of the modern parachute.
Embankment Svisloch. View of the Holy Spirit Monastery, the Cathedral of the Descent of the Holy Spirit, City Town Hall
Variations on a theme «Just in Minsk... and camera roll»
Camera: Olympus μ[mju:]-II
Film: Fujifilm Fujichrome Provia 100F Professional (RDP III)
N.B. film expired. The exact expired date - Unknown
Noritsu QSS-2901 Scanner.
Xawery Dunikowski embankment - bulwar Xawerego Dunikowskiego
Architect: Piotr Żuraw
Built: 2015-2016
Location: Old Town, Wroclaw, Poland
This is a painting by John O'Connor entitled "The Embankment" dating from 1874. O'Connor painted the scene from the terrace of Somerset House looking towards the City of London. As well as the Cityscape he has painted the Bank of England picquet or Guard on their way to the Bank marching along Victoria Embankment which is only two years old.
The Thames Embankment is a work of 19th-century civil engineering that reclaimed marshy land next to the River Thames in central London. It consists of the Victoria Embankment and Chelsea Embankment.
This is a Wildt & Kray postcard of “British Manufacture” showing the view from Waterloo Bridge looking east along Victoria Embankment towards Blackfriars Bridge and St. Paul’s Cathedral. Somerset House is on the left and London County Council Trams wend their way to South London over Westminster and Blackfriars Bridges sometime just before WW1.
This is a Judge's of Hastings postcard, originally published in a sepia tone and dating from the late 1930s. The view is looking northeast from Waterloo Bridge and shows the church of St. Clement Danes in the Strand, the R.R.S. Discovery and a marvellous view of St. Paul's Cathedral.