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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. Now I think about it, they do look a lot more recent than Ancient Egypt, and although the Ancient Egyptians used bronze, I don't think they made great use of it in sculptures.
A KLM postcard from the late 1950s or early 1960s showing the Palace of Westminster from Victoria Embankment with a nice old RT bus and a Scammell Scarab on the corner with Bridge Street. No buses run along Victoria Embankment anymore but can someone tell me what was the last bus route to run along Victoria Embankment and when?
Just a few update pics from my last trips to Richards, showing the embankment now it has all the grass stuck down.
Still not sure what to do about the joins yet?
Maybe overlap coarser grass over them, as I still need to put coaser stuff around the rock face next to the bridge.
50-50 atthe moment still if this will all be at AFOLCON this year or just a static display of engines and rolling stock?
Nicely coloured B&W postcard of the Embankment in London. It shows the Art Deco Shell-Mex House in the centre. Built in 1931 for Shell Petroleum, it has the largest clock face in the UK.
I can see a Morris 8 behind the truck, dating the photo to after 1935.
Presnenskaya embankment of Moscow in the evening.
Bagration Bridge is a pedestrian bridge spanning the Moskva River in Moscow. It connects Tower 2000 with the main Moscow International Business Center. The bridge was opened in September 1997 to commemorate the 850th anniversary of the founding of Moscow. It is named after the general of the Napoleonic Wars Peter Bagration.
The August Bank Holiday Monday crowds queue along Victoria Embankment for a trip on a Thames pleasure boat from Westminster Pier. This is 1946 and the evidence of the recent war is all about. In the background, the photographer has captured the Lambeth Emergency Bridge, built in 1942 by the London County Council, it was one of three emergency bridges built in case any of the other permanent London Bridges were destroyed or damaged by enemy action. The bridge was dismantled in 1948 and was sent to Northern Rhodesia now Zambia to span the Kafue River carrying the Great North Road.
Managed to grab an hour walk about around the Embankment in Chelsea London while I was there for the evening.
This was amost a non-shot! I was in the area taking photos of other, more interesting things, and as I turned around, this caught my eye. I promptly set up my little tripod on a nearby seat and took my three exposures. Sadly, during the last one, a bus stopped at the traffic lights and completely obscured the buildings. I then took my three exposures again...
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Canon EOS 500D / ISO 100 / f/9 / 18-55mm @ 18mm / 5.2 seconds 0EV, 1.3 seconds -2EV, 20 seconds +2EV.
This is a Charles Martin postcard printed and colourised in Germany and dates from about 1903 although the photograph is a little earlier. The postcard shows the view from Charing Cross Pier looking downstream and includes Victoria Embankment, Cleopatra's Needle and Somerset House. It also shows a Thames Division rowing galley crewed by an Inspector and two police constables probably from the nearby floating Police Station at Waterloo Pier. Rowing Galleys were used by Thames Division from 1839 when the Marine Force was amalgamated with the Metropolitan Police to become Thames Division until 1905. After the Princess Alice disaster in 1878 the inquest into the 600 people who were killed recommended that the Thames Division be equipped with steam launches. By 1898 eight steam launches supplemented the Rowing Galleys and by 1910 motor launches replaced the steam launches.
Moscow, Russia
The Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building seen from the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge near Red Square in Moscow.
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