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This is a page from the Sphere newspaper dated 7th June 1930 showing the progress being made in the Kingsway tunnel building work.
Victoria Embankment. The Adelphi building, Shell Mex House & The Savoy.
Panorama, constructed from 4 Horizontal images stitched in ArcSoft Panorama maker Pro 5
River cruise boat at The Victoria Embankment. Taken from the South Bank, London, on the 07/05/2013 at 12:34:17Hrs using a Nikon D300s camera with a Tamron AF70-300mm F4-5.6 Di LD MACRO 1:2 lens + a 62mm HOYA HMC UV(c) filter
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I arrived in London early on a Saturday morning near the end of March. I was running on an hour of sleep, but the weather--65 and sunny--kept me going.
A contemporary painting by the Birmingham based artist 'Davron'. It shows a northbound LCC tram crossing Westminster Bridge on its way from Dulwich.
This is an anonymously published postcard printed and colourised in England. The view shows the River Thames looking downstream from Hungerford Bridge with Charing Cross Pier in the foreground. A London County Council paddle steamer approaches the pier in the summer of 1906, it is one of the thirty paddle steamers built in 1905 for the London County Council by four shipbuilding companies, the Thames Ironworks at Blackwall built the following, Alleyn, Boydell, Brunel, Carlyle, Gibbon, Gresham, King Alfred, Morris, Purcell, Sloane and Vanbrugh.
The J.I. Thornycroft & Co at Southampton built Ben Johnson, Francis Drake, Raleigh and Shakespeare. The company subcontracted G. Rennie & Co at Greenwich to build, Christopher Wren, Marlowe, Pepys and Rennie.
The Napier & Miller company in Glasgow built Caxton, Charles Lamb, Chaucer, Colechurch, Earl Godwin, Edmund Ironside, Fitzailwin, Olaf, Thomas More, Turner and Whittington.
London Central route 12: Oxford Circus - Dulwich Library
Approaching Westminster Bridge / County Hall (E)
Whilst my 53 - or three 53s - are engulfed along the slow-moving Victoria Embankment traffic, to my astonishment I saw yet another odd-working 12, the second Enviro400 on the route: E107, with a badman registration - yes, fam.
©London Bus Breh 2013.
OK just one last Common Darter, this is my first adult Sympetrum striolatum portrait for 2013, this guy was on the top of the fountain wall at the Memorial Gardens near the River Trent here in Notts :o)
Now this is an 11 image handheld focus stack with the MP-E 65mm. So what do you think natural light or flash? I will divulge the answer later. This one was very approachable, he flew up a few times only to land next to me again and on occasion he returned with a small snack. They always pull these curious head turns as well, almost like they are assessing the situation :o)
OK this was taken using diffused flash in aperture priority, flash set to ETTL, ISO set at 250 and aperture F/7.1, averaging a shutter speed of 1/100.
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An early 1970s postcard published by Colourmaster showing the view looking upstream from a boat moored alongside Victoria Embankment, probably from one of the Restaurant boats. The boats in the foreground are the Thames pleasure boats which take sightseers as far upstream as Hampton Court and downstream to Greenwich and later to the Thames Barrier.
Korean War Memorial, Victoria Embankment Gardens. Westminster London.
A Bronze Statue, with a Portland Stone Obelisk and Welsh Slate Base.
Unveiled December 2014 as a Gift by the South Korean Government
STUDENTS DayX3 NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION (Part 2)
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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From The Classic Police Series With Neil Pearson But Thats Paterson Joseph On The Left..Episode `Words of Advice`....The Texaco Has Popped Up Peninsula Heights In The Rear Was Completed In 1964 As Alembic House.. We All Know The Tommy Steele,Jeffrey Archer,John Barry, Bernie Ecclestone Stories...But Did You Know Dadly In 1995 During Refurbishment 2 Workers Fell To There Death Whilst Dismantling A Mast...It Was Also Home To Peregrine Devlin In 1973s Theatre Of Blood And Vincent Price's Character Fakes His Own Death By Jumping Out Of The Window Into The Thames........
I hadn't really registered the presence of these jetties on the South Bank, still less that they're publicly accessible!
The northern bank of the Thames was regularised by the construction of Sir Joseph Bazalgette's Victoria Embankment which, in addition to carrying sewerage mains, narrowed the channel to improve discharge. Boats can therefore moor directly against the vertical northern wall (tide permitting), but jetties are evidently needed on the more-naturally sloping South Bank.
This one stands at Gabriel's Wharf, between the eastern end of the South Bank's tree-lined 'promenade' and the landmark OXO Tower.
Behind is the second Blackfriars Bridge; the first was an Italianate-style toll bridge spanning 303 m in nine semi-elliptical stone arches, built for the Corporation of the City of London and opened in 1769 as the third bridge across the Thames within built-up London, following London Bridge (also owned by the Corporation) and Westminster Bridge (the rival!). Originally named the 'William Pitt Bridge' after the Prime Minister, it soon became better known for its location, near the site of a Dominican (Black Friars) priory. More specifically, the mouth of the River Fleet had left a gap in the northern wharfside, so the Bridge was built over it rather than disrupt neighbouring commerce. The Fleet still emerges from a culvert beneath the Bridge.
Much repaired, the faulty bridge was finally replaced entirely in 1869, as part of the aforementioned Victoria Embankment development. This one, by Joseph Cubitt and now Grade II Listed, spans 281 m on five wrought iron arches. Initially 21 m wide, it was extended to 32 m in 1907-10 to accommodate increasing traffic. Like London Bridge, the full length of Blackfriars Bridge remains within the jurisdiction of the City.
Beyond the bridge, directly behind the end of the jetty, one can just see the pillars of the first Blackfriars Railway Bridge, which was also designed by Cubitt and slightly predates the road bridge, having opened in 1864. However, with changed traffic priorities and rolling stock, Cubitt's bridge became obsolete, and the the adjacent St Paul's Railway Bridge (1886, by John Wolfe-Barry and Henry Marc Brunel - the sons of architect Sir Charles Barry and engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel) inherited the 'Blackfriars' name in 1937. The original's deck was finally removed in 1985, though the easternmost pillars now partially support the modern London Blackfriars station, which extends right across the Thames beneath a roof covered by 4,400 photovoltaic solar panels, meeting half the station's energy requirements and making this the world's largest (of three...) solar bridges.
Charles Bell Birch's 1896 bronze statue of Queen Victoria, now Grade II Listed, stands at the north end of Blackfriars Bridge. Behind, the brown-and-white commercial building is Blackfriars House, designed by Frank Troup, built 1913-16 and now Grade II Listed.
Even if it wasn't being beautifully highlighted by the late afternoon light, I suspect you might notice 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.
To the right of St Paul's stands the green-roofed Faraday Building, designed by A.R. Myers and built in 1932 as a purpose-built home for London's first telephone exchange (which had expanded rapidly since opening in 1902). It occupies the site of 'Doctors' Commons', the obsolete "College of Doctors of Law exercent in the Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts" and, by obscuring the riverside view of St Paul's, was the inspiration of legislation restricting the height of subsequent development around the cathedral.
Evidently, the statute doesn't apply further from St Paul's; the building visible behind the Faraday Building, for example, is the Broadgate Tower, a 165 m, 33-storey 'skyscraper', the 12th tallest in London (4th in the City of London), over the entrance to Liverpool Street station at the northeastern corner of the City.
The 13th tallest building happens to be visible on the left, ~2 km from here, behind the north-western tower of St Paul's. Originally built in 1967 as Britannic House, the headquarters of British Petroleum (BP), at 122m (35 storeys) it was the first building in the City to exceed the height of St Paul's; refurbishment in 2000 added a further 5 m and the new name 'CityPoint'.
At the extreme left is the 82 m, 18-storey Alban Gate, at 125 London Wall. Like Embankment Place, above Charing Cross station, it was designed by Sir Terry Farrell (that arched roof is a distinctive similarity) and built 1990-92.
From left to right along the River Thames in London are The City of London School, Millennium Bridge House, Norfolk House, and Broken Wharf House. The tall building on the left in the distance is the Faraday Building and Saint Paul's Cathedral is in the background on the right. The Millennium Bridge is the bridge spanning the River Thames.
On a photowalk with Claire, we had just taken some photos of Westminster Abbey and were walking down the North Bank towards Aldwych and St Pauls, via my work balcony to get a cityscape. I glanced up and saw this Royal Air Force Memorial with a golden eagle on top (rumoured to face Japan I believe). I looked like it was about to sore into the blue sky from this angle, so I thought I'd get a quick photo.
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Canon EOS 500D / ISO 100 / f/5.6 / 18-55mm @ 55mm / 1/320 second 0EV, 1/1250 second -2EV, 1/80 second +2EV
This is a Tuck's Oilette published in July 1909 as a souvenir of a unique occasion in the history of the Royal Navy. The commentary on the reverse gives a flavour of the occasion.
"Never before in the history of nations has there been so remarkable an assembly of warships as that gathered here together in the Thames, and stretching in one great pageant, the full extent of the river, some 45 miles, to the Houses of Parliament. It is practically in London itself, the very heart of the British Empire, that the fleet is foregathering, and nothing could be calculated more certain to arouse patriotic pride and Imperial enthusiasm than this unique display of a mighty nation".
In the week from Saturday 17th July to Saturday 24th July 1909, ships from the Home and Atlantic Fleets were moored along the Thames from Westminster Bridge to the Nore Lightship in the estuary, some forty five miles. The larger ships, the Battleships and HMS Dreadnought were moored near Southend and the smaller ships further upstream. The photograph below shows Torpedo Boat destroyers moored at Westminster Pier, but there were also four submarines, two moored opposite the Houses of Parliament and two along Victoria Embankment. It was the first time there had been a Naval Pageant of such magnitude on the Thames. The timing of the pageant was thought by some to be linked with the vote in the House of Commons due on the 22nd July about the question of whether to build further Dreadnought class Battleships, happily the vote was passed and Britain was ready for what was to come in the First World War.
This is a mid to late sixties scene well before this type of view could be seen from that monstrosity, the London Eye. Talking about monstrosities, the three towers of the Department of the Environment in Marsham Street are well on their way to completion, but St. Stephen's Club on the corner of Bridge Street and Victoria Embankment still stands only to be demolished in the late nineties for yet another monstrosity, Portcullis House. They say that Portcullis House will last for at least 200 years, well I hope future Londoners are duly grateful.
Another monstrosity can be seen in Victoria Street, the new New Scotland Yard was occupied in 1967 and what a pitiful nondescript couple of upturned matchboxes it is, give me the old New Scotland Yard any day.
The classical building in the foreground is the City of London Custom House, the offices of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs. A custom house has been on this site since the fourteenth century.
A very autumnal looking embankment - taken on a recent blue hour shoot. Slightly disappointed about the overexposed part of Wilford Bridge though - should've taken more brackets!!
Ministry of Defence, London. Designed in 1913 by Vincent Harris, but built after World
War II, being completed in 1959. The offices incorporate a significant C16th vaulted undercroft and C18th
historic rooms removed and reset from houses formerly on the site. It is grade 1 listed. The gardens contain the remains of Whitehall Palace and several listed monuments.
City of Westminster, London, England - Ministry of Defence, Victoria Embankment
March 2023
Victoria Embankment Gardens, London WC2.
The Watergate was built in 1626 by Inigo Jones, for George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham.
With the construction of Joseph Bazalgette's Victoria Embankment, the Watergate, formerly on the bank of the Thames, found itself marooned 150m from the river's edge.
Sony A7 + Canon FDn 24mm f/2.8.
An early 'Grus Aus' postcard of Victoria Embankment posted in 1906 although it was printed before 1903 probably in Germany.
Tobias Rehberger's Dazzle Ship in London is one of two Dazzle Ships painted in the summer 0f 2014, HMS President in London, and the historic pilot ship, the Edmund Gardner, in Liverpool
The dazzle style in which the two ships were painted was inspired by the famous glaring colours and jagged lines of the ‘dazzle’ camouflage, designed to confuse enemy U-boat captains.
The geometrically patterned boats would have been a familiar sight during the First World War, when hundreds of shipping convoys sailed to and from Britain’s ports.
These eye-catching vessels continue to remind people of the crucial role ships played in the country’s wartime survival.
Victoria Embankment, River Thames, London. The steamer was built by William Gray & Company in 1934 as a passenger ferry on the Humber. In 1973, she was retired from service and laid up. In 1976 the ship was towed to London. PS Tattershall Castle was first opened on the Thames as a floating art gallery until she was sold to the Chef & Brewer group and opened in 1982 as a restaurant and bar. She is now owned by the Stonegate Pub Co. Photo is a merge of three images.
City of Westminster, London, UK - Tattershall Castle floating pub, Victoria Embankment, River Thames
March 2018
At 100 Victoria Embankment; the art-deco exterior is little more than a shell for a much redeveloped building inside. The former City of London School (now JP Morgan) is to the left.
Photograph taken at 06:50am on July 19th 2012 of The Houses of Paliament, incorporating the Palace of Westminster, house of commons, house of Lords, the clock tower and the great bell known as Big Ben.
The Clock Tower was completed in 1859 and the Great Clock started on 31 May, with the Great Bell's strikes heard for the first time on 11 July and the quarter bells first chimed on 7 September. Photograph taken from the Hungerford Bridge towards the Victoria Embankment side A3211, Central London, England.
Nikon D7000 220mm 1/220s f/5.3 iso200
Nikkor AF-S 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G VR. UV filter. Nikon GP-1 GPS
LATITUDE: N 51d 30m 23.12s
LONGITUDE: W 0d 7m 19.03s
ALTITUDE: 19.0m
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