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Cleopatra's Needle
This is a crop of part of the previous image - I am quite impressed with how much detail the lens captured.
The Needles were originally erected in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis on the orders of Thutmose III, around 1450 BC.
The granite was brought from the quarries of Aswan and the inscriptions were added about 200 years later by Ramesses II to commemorate his military victories.
The obelisks were moved to Alexandria and set up in the Caesareum — a temple built by Cleopatra in honor of Mark Antony — by the Romans in 12 BC, during the reign of Augustus, but were toppled some time later.
This was quite fortuitous because by burying the faces it helped preserve most of the hieroglyphs from the effects of weathering, as you can see.
An important aspect of the Battle of Britain Memorial on Victoria Embankment was that when Great Britain faced mortal danger in 1940, almost everyone rallied to meet the threat from the all-conquering Nazis. The role played by The Few - the RAF pilots who blunted the Luftwaffe’s efforts - is rightly celebrated, but the Memorial also pays tribute to the contributions made by the anti-aircraft gunnery crews and the women who made up a significant part of the aircraft and munitions manufacturing workforce.
November 2005
Rollei 35 camera
Fujichrome 100 film.
Taken back in January at the Embankment. Dawn breaks through the clouds over Wilford Suspension Bridge.
Panorama - St Paul's Cathedral and London's Skyscraper Skyline.
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Victoria Embankment, A3211, Westminster, London, City of Westminster, England, UK
Handheld
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Lens: Zeiss Makro-Planar T* 2/100 ZE
Focal Length: 100 mm
Exposure: ¹⁄₂₅₀ sec at f/3.2
ISO: 800
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Victoria Embankment, London. The offices of J P Morgan dramatically lit at night. Designed by Davis & Emanuel and opened as the City of London School in 1882. Now offices for J P Morgan and is grade 2 listed.
London, Victoria Embankment
January 2017
(From the Archives)
Shot from the South Bank, the north bank in the horizon is the Victoria Embankment
From WikiPedia:
The Victoria Embankment, is part of the Thames Embankment, a road and walkway along the north bank of the River Thames in London. Victoria Embankment extends from the City of Westminster into the City of London.
The Victoria Embankment's construction started in 1865. It was completed in 1870 under the direction of Joseph Bazalgette, and was a project of the Metropolitan Board of Works. The original impetus was the need to provide London with a modern sewerage system. Another major consideration was the relief of congestion on The Strand and Fleet Street.
The project involved building out onto the foreshore of the Thames, thus narrowing the river. The construction work required the purchase and demolition of much expensive riverside property. The tunnels for the District Line were built underneath the Embankment. At ground level, in addition to the new roads, two handsome public gardens were laid out. One of these backs onto the government buildings of Whitehall, and the other stretches from Hungerford Bridge to Waterloo Bridge. The gardens contain many statues, including a monument to Bazalgette.
The water gate, its main historical feature, was built in 1626 for the Duke of Buckingham.
Wilford Suspension Bridge, Nottingham. Taken while at the Nottingham Riverside Festival 2012
It's a Grade II listed structure.
Would quite like to know what is behind it.
T60 is reported to have run as a Green Line in red livery for a while, but I believe the coach is seen here with the later green.
T60 GF 529. AEC Regal , petrol engine, Chiswick body.
With LT 1930 – 1938 sold on, then re bodied and received diesel engine. Seems to have survived until 1962. IANS BUS STOP - EARLY GREENLINES.
Photographer unknown. Location by JB (KK 69521).
The twisting tunnel of Lower Robert Street running underneath buildings near Victoria Embankment and the Savoy Hotel. The road dates from the 1770s and is said to be haunted by the ghost of a prostitute 'Poor Jenny'.
An amazingly detailed sculpture, "The Battle of Britain" by Paul Day along the River Thames on the Victoria Embankment.
This statue of a female figure restraining a horse, 'Controlled Energy', by Sir William Reid Dick RA, stands at the south-western end of the Grade II Listed office building's curved façade, overlooking Blackfriars Bridge on the north bank of the River Thames. The corresponding north-eastern figure is male.
Occupying the site of Henry VIII's Bridewell Palace (replaced by De Keyser's Royal Hotel after 1864), the London headquarters of soap manufacturers Lever Brothers (Unilever from 1930) combines Neoclassical and Art Deco elements and opened in 1933.
STUDENTS DayX3 NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION
Protest and march against University tuition fee increases, 09th Dec. 2010
Over 20,000 students from around the country converged on Central London today to march for a third time to protest against the coalition government's plans to
massively increase University tuition fees, which will ultimately mean that far fewer students from poorer backgrounds will be able to even consider a University
education because of the massive debts incurred which will follow them for the rest of their working lives.
I joined the days proceedings in the afternoon as they were assembling in Trafalgar Square. To throw the police off-guard they suddenly took off, en mass, through
Admiralty Arch in a bid to get to Parliament Square, which had been forbidden. That evening the House of Commons was voting on the Education Funding Bill, and the
students were determined to make sure that Parliament heard their protests.
The day started in a good mood, but by the time they reached Parliament pockets of disorder had started breaking out - Flares were lit and thrown, crush barriers and
construction site fencing ripped up to be used as weapons against the massed ranks of riot police and later on the mounted police. I had to leave by around 3pm, and by
the time I got home and turned on the BBC news all hell had broken loose outside Parliament. Protesters were pelting the police with lumps of masonry, metal poles and
scaffolding. They lit large fires, broke down the doors to The Treasury and the new Ministry of Justice buildings, smashing many windows, daubing graffiti everywhere
and generally smashing up the joint. Many people were arrested and many people hurt, some badly.
As the police gradually started releasing the by-now contained protesters in small numbers, several small groups headed up to Oxford Street, where they smashed the
windows of the flagship TopShop store (owned by Sir Phillip Green who is being attacked for shovelling billions of pounds of what should be UK taxable income into tax
haven accounts owned by his wife as part of a legal tax dodge), and in Regent Street they engulfed the Bentley containing Prince Charles and his horse-faced wife
Camilla who were in the process of swanning orf the the Royal Variety Performance! The protesters started kicking the vehicle. They broke the windows and threw a tin of
white paint over the car. One was not amused!
Needless to say the Bill was passed in Parliament tonight, and the students have vowed to continue their campaign of demonstration and civil disobedience...
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A closer view of the 'face' of one of the Sphinxes on Victoria Embankment, overlooking the River Thames as it flows through London.
Ektachrome EPP100 35mm slide film, Olympus OM2SP.
Standard consumer E6 chemicals, processed at home.
Digitized using a Nikon D7000 dslr, Nikkor 40mm lens, JJC ES-2 adapter.
RAW file edited in Photoshop Elements 11.
A rare shot, for me, of the London Eye; tastefully illuminated in vibrant blue, with County Hall alongside. Taken from across the Thames on the Embankment.
Westminster Bridge is a road-and-foot-traffic bridge over the River Thames in London, linking Westminster on the west side and Lambeth on the east side.
The bridge is painted predominantly green, the same colour as the leather seats in the House of Commons which is on the side of the Palace of Westminster nearest to the bridge, but a natural shade similar to verdigris.
In 2005–2007, it underwent a complete refurbishment, including replacing the iron fascias and repainting the whole bridge. It links the Palace of Westminster on the west side of the river with County Hall and the London Eye on the east and was the finishing point during the early years of the London Marathon.
An old photograph (just 1 1/2" x 2 1/2") annotated "E3 class (5/7/52) on the Victoria Embankment, London (last week of trams)" and showing '72 - ??????? - Beresford Sq.' destination blinds.
Because of the photo size it is difficult making out any fine details, that is my excuse anyway. At first I thought the fleet number was 1209 but that would not match it being an E/3 class, so I think what I saw as a '1' is in fact just a mark and that the number is 209 which would match it being ex *Leyton Corporation Tramways (LCT) E/3 tram No. 209.
If you think that the above is wrong please let me know what it should be. Not just "yes, it is wrong"!
No. 209 was an ex LCT E/3 class car built in 1931 by English Electric seating 28/46 and running on EMB maximum traction (LCC class 4a) trucks. Up until 1933 it was operated on behalf of LCT by *London County Council Tramways (LCC) and ran in LCC livery but with an LCT monogram on the car waist panels, post 1933 it would have run in the standard red and cream LT livery. In May 1952 it was withdrawn from service and was disposed of (broken up or sold) at the LT Penhall Road Works.
The parts of the London tramways system that had not already been withdrawn or transferred to trolleybus/bus operation closed in Jul 1952.
* The London Passenger Transport Board (LPTB) absorbed the local London tramway companies in 1933 and in turn was replaced in 1948 by the London Transport Executive (LTE) whose usual operating name was London Transport (LT).
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The building on the right foreground is actually my old school, although the it is now occupied by JP Morgan. I wonder how many people working here once studied here too (the school moved out of here in 1986).
Davis and Emanuel Pevsner 1883
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?
Trent Bridge as seen from Trentside North.
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New Scotland Yard, London. The New Scotland Yard building was designed in 1935 by William Curtis Green, who was commissioned to build an annexe to the existing Norman Shaw North building, which had been the Metropolitan Police's headquarters since 1890. Together with the Norman Shaw South building, the three sites were split off in 1967, with the Norman Shaw buildings being taken over by the British Government and the Curtis Green annexe being retained by the police.
City of Westminster, London, England - New Scotland Yard, Victoria Embankment
March 2023
A short film showing a Common Darter in the process of pumping his wings up post emergence. Unfortunately I never was able to find any more emerging Darters and did not manage the full emergence start to finish, so I have a selection of moments from the emergence. This is not the full wing expansion, but nicely illustrates the process of wing expansion. In the video you can see the Dragonfly rhythmically moving its abdomen, this is the Dragonfly pumping fluid into the veins of the wings, once the wings are fully formed they will then dry and set to form those wonderful stained glass structures. This film clip was sped up by a factor of x4. Also, the bad news is they have emptied and cleaned the fountain since, so unlikely I will see any emerging there next year, all those Darters gone ;O(
Just a note, this as yet can't be viewed in the new format beta test, which begs the question why beta test something that is not yet fully functional?
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I uploaded a similar shot of Wilford Suspension Bridge a few weeks ago - here's one without the light trails.
Vehicle shown outside Cannon Row Police Station (Alpha Delta) that formed part of the world famous New Scotland Yard, Headquarters of London's Metropolitan Police.
Victoria Embankment beyond gates at rear of picture.
Blackfriars Bridge is just off the right of the image, but Charles Bell Birch's 1896 bronze statue of Queen Victoria, also Grade II Listed, is visible, standing at the north end of the bridge. The brown-and-white commercial building behind is Blackfriars House (designed by Frank Troup, built 1913-16, now Grade II Listed), to the right of the new entrance to London Blackfriars railway station.
Blackfriars Millennium Pier floats on the River Thames to the left (upstream) of the bridge, served by river buses primarily for commuters; there's limited traffic outside business hours.
M.V. Salient, at the left of the foreground, offers river cruises, as do (I presume) the smaller boats moored in mid-channel, but the historic HMS President against the north bank now acts as a conference venue, plus offices occupied by media companies.
Launched in Renfrew in 1918 as an anti-submarine Q-ship, HMS Saxifrage was moored here permanently in 1922, inheriting the HMS President name and role of a 1832 Royal Navy Reserve drill ship. One of the last three remaining Royal Navy warships of the First World War, now on the National Register of Historic Vessels, she was the nominal 'home ship' of all Navy personnel serving in London, until being sold to private owners in 1988.
Behind the President's rear mast is the 1886 Tudor Gothic building designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield for Sion College, founded in 1630 as a social centre and library for the clergy of London. However, the College sold the Grade II Listed building, now converted to offices, in 1996, with its famed theological library being divided between Lambeth Palace and the Maughan Library of King's College London.
Next door, highlighted by evening sunlight, is the 1883–1987 purpose-built home of the City of London School (now in nearby Queen Victoria Street, with this building occupied by an investment bank). Designed by Henry Davis and Barrow Emanuel and opened by the Prince of Wales (the future Edward VII), the landmark building appeared in the 1968-89 Thames Television ident, during arguably the peak period of 'mass' TV viewing in the UK.
Next to the right, curving around the corner, stands Unilever House. Designed in the Neoclassical Art Deco style by James Lomax-Simpson (a member of the Unilever Board), and/or architects John J. Burnet & Thomas S. Tait (precise degrees of credit remain ambiguous), the now-Grade II Listed building was constructed 1929-33 on the site of Bridewell Palace, once occupied by Henry VIII but later a poorhouse and prison.
At the rear left of the image is CityPoint, London's 13th tallest building, at 127m (35 storeys). Built in 1967 as Britannic House, and then a mere 122 m tall (refurbishment in 2000 added 5 m), it was the first building in the City of London to exceed the height of St Paul's Cathedral.
In front of that, one can see the arched roof of the 82 m, 18-storey Alban Gate (aka '125 London Wall') designed by Sir Terry Farrell and built 1990-92.
Behind Unilever House one can see the 12th tallest building in London (and 4th in the City of London), Broadgate Tower, a 165 m, 33-storey 'skyscraper' over the entrance to Liverpool Street station at the northeastern corner of the City.
The height of buildings nearer the middle of the city are (were?) more restricted, to preserve clear views of landmarks such as St. Paul's Cathedral. This regulation was the result of the construction of the green-roofed Faraday Building, at the extreme right of this image, in 1932, obscuring the riverside view of St Paul's. Designed by A.R. Myers, it was the purpose-built home for London's first telephone exchange (which had already opened in 1902), on the site of 'Doctors' Commons', the obsolete "College of Doctors of Law exercent in the Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts".
Have I missed anything? Oh, yeah....
Even if it wasn't being beautifully highlighted by the late afternoon light, I suspect you might notice the dome of St Paul's Cathedral, on Ludgate Hill at the heart of the City of London. A church dedicated to St. Paul has occupied the site since 604, but Sir Christopher Wren's English Baroque masterpiece, the fourth cathedral on the site, was built after the 1666 Great Fire of London, being (officially) completed in 1711. The tallest building in London until 1962, St Paul's remains the second largest (by volume) church in the UK, with one of the highest (at 111 m tall) and 'most perfect' domes in the world. Aside from being a true icon of London, it's the nearest the UK has to a 'national' church, having been the venue of key funerals, weddings and commemorations of British history.
Whitehall Court, London. A mansion block of flats, built of Portland Stone in 1884, and designed by Thomas Archer and A. Green, now grade 2* listed. Whitehall gardens, in front, contains 3 grade 2 listed statues.
City of Westminster, London, England - Whitehall Court, Victoria Embankment / Whitehall Court
March 2023
A golden winters sunrise shines through the gates of the War Memorial at the Embankment in Nottingham.
Another of this evenings shots taken from a low vantage point on Trent Bridge in to the on-comming Traffic. So many opertunities down this end of Nottingham.
Explored ~ Feb 3rd 2012 #457 Thanks for all the comments :)