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Robert Raikes was a London based philanthropist and Anglican layman. He is best remembered for the establishment of the Sunday School movement which encouraged young people to be taught by local people on their level about Christian teachings after church on a Sunday.
I've known James since my Colorado days in the 90s. He came all the way from Seattle for the wedding and was a star as my Best Man, Witness and general protector from stress.
Just to the right of the footbridge where the Causey burn continues it comes across what is a much bigger engineering project than Causey Arch with a much wider and deeper gap between the banks of the gorge through which the stream ran. Firstly by building a stone culvert to cover the stream then infilling the gorge with stone, soil and whatever else they could get their hands on. When complete the embankment was approximately 300 feet broad and around 150 feet wide and around 120 feet high. It is estimated that between 1.5 and 2 million tons of whatever, was used to infill the gap. The culvert is still in first class order today and that is even older than the Arch. When considering this was all done by manual labour without the aid of any machinery with only horses to help it is quite incredible.
The National Submariners' War Memorial is a war memorial on the Victoria Embankment in London, England, between Waterloo Bridge and Blackfriars Bridge. It commemorates the Royal Navy submariners who died in the First and Second World Wars. The Royal Navy Submarine Service had 57 operational vessels at the start of the First World War in 1914, but expanded to 137 vessels by the time the war ended in 1918, with another 78 under construction. During the war, 54 of its submarines were sunk, and over 1,300 Royal Navy submariners were killed. The memorial is a Grade II* listed building, and it is the focal point of a special memorial walk and laying of wreaths held each year by submariners on the Sunday preceding Remembrance Sunday.
Photograph taken on a Gardenbreaks.com Garden Short Break Tour in Westminster and Lambeth on 26 April 2009 - the day of the London Marathon. This image is in copyright but published under a Creative Commons License with some rights reserved: you may use it on a website if you credit the photograph with a hyperlink to www.gardenbreaks.com/
Did some long shutter work on a local commuter route. Was please with the results and the direction of lines through the image!
A camel amongst the trees. A view of the Imperial Camel Corps Memorial in Victoria Embankment Gardens.
One of those remembered is:
Trooper F Butcher of the 1st Battalion Australian Contingent of the Imperial Camel Corps.
See the London Remembers site for others.
February 2009, Westminster, London.
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Victoria Embankment entrance. Embankment underground station is served by the Circle, District, Northern and Bakerloo lines.