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Women and men both working to re-construction of the embankment at a remote village of Sathkhira, Bangladesh
Victoria Embankment Gardens were lade out in the 1860s as part of a building scheme that also included the District Line, which runs beneath. The gardens front the river Thames on one side, and are backed by the Savoy and Adelphi buildings off the Strand.
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.
Did some long shutter work on a local commuter route. Was please with the results and the direction of lines through the image!
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.