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This is an undivided back postcard published in Paris by Ernest Louis Desiree Le Deley using the Heliotype process which was invented by an Englishman, Ernest Edwards in 1870. The postcard was posted in March 1903 and shows the view from Hungerford Bridge looking downstream towards Waterloo Bridge. The Paddle Steamer just leaving Charing Cross Pier is the Thames Steamboat Company's "Alexandra", one of the ABC boats built for the company by Thames Ironworks at Blackwall in 1898. The other two boats were the "Boadicea" and the "Cleopatra". On Thursday 17th May 1900 the "Alexandra" was used to transport the King of Norway and Sweden, Oscar II on a trip down the Thames visiting the Thames Ironworks and the Royal Naval College at Greenwich. Whilst at Greenwich he also visited the Seamen's Hospital which at that time had thirty Scandinavian seamen as patients. Whilst at the Thames Ironworks the King inspected girders which were being made for a Bridge to be built in Norway. The "Alexandra continued in service on the Thames until 1912.
Victoria Embankment on a very wet day in 1931. The No.26 tram is making its way to Blackfriars Bridge and then Southwark Street near London Bridge. It had started its journey at Kew Bridge then along Chiswick High Road, Hammersmith Broadway then over Putney Bridge, Wandsworth High Street, Clapham Junction, Wandsworth Road, Vauxhall Station, Albert Embankment and Westminster Bridge. This route crossed the Thames three times on its way from Kew to London Bridge. Interesting to see the pedestrian refuge acting as a tram stop for the north bound trams.
Built by the LCC as a prototype of an unbuilt fleet of modern trams, number 1 was known as Bluebird due to the striking blue and cream livery it initially wore. In this view it has been fitted with new London Transport fleetnames. Just prior to the war it was transferred to Telford Avenue depot along with the Felthams and painted into standard red livery. It resides in the National Tramway Museum at Crich awaiting restoration to running order.
(a scan from my collection)
Notes: The yellow flowers on the embankment are the invasive weed - Coreopsis. The location is the Great Western Highway at Lawson looking west, the red roofed building in the distance is the former convent destroyed in the 1977 bushfires.
Format: Colour photograph, scanned from a discoloured, medium format negative.
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains Library library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au
Part of: Local Studies Collection PF 2947
Provenance: BMCC Publicity Files
Date Range: 1968
District Line D78 Stock driving coach No. 7076 stands at Embankment at the rear of Train No. 007 to Upminster
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?
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?
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?
The recently cleared embankment has opened up a shot at Millerhill. 66034 is seen at the rear of 6K19, Carlisle Kingmoor - Craigentinny Depot ballast train, as it heads into the empty Millerhill Yard with 66121 leading. The new Borders Line can be seen to the right of the photo. A food waste plant dominates the background on the 20th April 2016 at 0758
This is part of the old Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway line. The last train ran along here on 8th September, 1962.
I'm determined to come back here and get a picture of this Terry Farrell-designed postmodern building without any trains in the way, but that's gonna take quite a long wait!
The broad pavement of Victoria Embankment has long been a favourite venue for pavement artists. It looks like there may be a pavement artist contest or convention taking place sometime in the 1970s.