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After many trips to Cornwall over the years I finally got to attempt the classic Golant shot. Sadly, after a day of unbridled sunshine, the cloud rolled over around 20 mins before the train arrived. There were also a couple of large white vans parked in front of the boats, which meant nipping off the lower part of the frame.
66176 heads along the Fowey estuary with the 16:29 Goonbarrow Jn - Fowey Dock Carne Point loaded china clay on 3rd July 2014.
Canon EOS 450D f/8 320th/sec iso 100
A view of Victoria Embankment from an RT bus. This is when the tram replacement bus routes still followed the same routes the trams did. This is a view of the Westminster end.
April 1970.
This is a Raphael Tuck & Sons “Glosso” postcard showing Victoria Embankment looking east from Cleopatra’s Needle. The needle itself is out of sight on the right, it is flanked by two bronze sphinxes. The needle was installed in late 1878 after an eventful journey from Egypt, the sphinxes, bronze tablets and bronze surround were designed and sculpted by the Architectural firm of C.H. & J. Mabey who had offices in Storey’s Gate. The casting of the bronze sphinxes etc was undertaken by the firm of H. Young & Son at the Eccleston Ironworks in Pimlico. The sphinxes were placed on turntables and were originally placed with the head facing away from the needle, when the sphinxes, each weighing seven tons were installed in late 1881, the heads faced towards the needle. The “mistake” was noticed straight away but it was explained that if the heads faced away from the needle the whole structure would not form an equilateral triangle, I don’t understand it either, but the sphinxes remain the wrong way round to this day. The photograph, which has captured a Bow Street Police Constable dates from between 1903 and 1905.
This is a W. H. Smith postcard in their Kingsway Real Photo series showing the scene looking north towards the Victoria Embankment from the south bank with from the left, The Adelphi, The Hotel Cecil, The Savoy Hotel and the Medical Examination Hall. Travelling upstream in line with Cleopatra’s needle is a paddle steamer belonging to the City Steamboat Company operating a former London County Council paddle steamer. In the foreground are a number of dumb barges and another two paddle steamers in City livery also formerly LCC paddle steamers, the boat on the left nearest the camera is a screw driven steamer also belonging to the City Steamboat Company. When the ill fated LCC river bus service was wound up in 1907 several of the boats were moored at this location between Hungerford Bridge and Waterloo Bridge until they were all sold by auction in 1909. Twelve of the thirty boats were bought by the City Steamboat Company and used on the Thames, some were sold on and that was the fate of “PS Raleigh” which is the paddle steamer on the right, it was sold to a company in Belgium. When the boats were built, they cost the LCC £6000.00 each, the “Raleigh” was sold to the City Company for £393.00, they probably made a profit when they sold it on. This is probably 1910 or 1911. The Adelphi and The Hotel Cecil were demolished in the early 1930s, The Adelphi was replaced by The New Adelphi which is an Art Deco building and the Hotel Cecil was replaced by Shell Mex House which is also Art Deco. The Savoy Hotel and the Medical Examination Hall still stand but the Hall has been given a new façade and is no longer recognisable as the same building.
There are two sphinxes on the Thames Embankment, one either side of Cleopatra’s Needle. While the obelisk, erected in 1878, dates from around 1450BC, the sphinxes were created and added in 1882. They were designed by George Vulliamy and modelled by C. H. Mabey. According to the TourUK site, the bronze sphinxes were accidentally replaced facing the wrong way (that is, facing the obelisk) after being cleaned in the early years of the 20th century. You can see the Golden Jubilee Bridges in the background, trying (maybe) to look a little like the pyramids.
Sphinx on the london embankment, you can see the London Eye and to the right corner Big Ben... It was a funny sky thought it was going to rain then a bit of blue emerged the sun was hiding itself..
This sphinx is one of a pair which stand fairly near Parliament, and between them stands "Cleopatra's Needle". The sphinxes are recent castings and Cleopatra's Needle doesn't really have anything to do with the Egyptian Queen of the same name, however it is a genuine Egyptian obelisk dating from the reign of Thutmoses III around 1450BC. It was one of a pair found in Heliopolis and given to the British as a gift in 1819 by the Egyptian ruler Mohammed Ali, but they refused to pay for it to be transported until 1877. The pontoon it was on capsized during a storm off France and six people died, but it remained floating and it was eventually towed to London. The other obelisk of the pair is in Central Park in New York city. The damage you can see on this sphinx's pedestal was caused by a bomb during the war - the first world war! This happened on September 4 1917, during the first raid made by German planes against London. There's similar damage from world war two preserved on the walls of the Victoria and Albert museum.
JJ and I left Tim resting at the holiday cottage while we walked into the centre of Stratford-Upon-Avon. We'd heard the next day, our last day, would be very wet and we wanted to make the most of the lovely, sunny evening. Here is a photo of the Embankment, which is close to the river opposite the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. I don't remember this from a previous day trip to the town in 2001 and think it's fairly newly built.
The Embankment’s Stratford venue gorgeous spaces are spread across two glass-fronted storeys close to River Avon. The open-plan design makes all sorts of events possible, from breakfast meetings onwards, intimate weddings to large corporate canapé events and everything in between.