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Photograph taken at 07:11am on March 29th 2012 of the 'EDF Energy London Eye' from the Millenium Bridge close to the Victoria Embankment A3211 on London's Embankment, London, England.
Nikon D7000 55mm 1/125s f/13.0 iso200
Nikkor AF-S DX 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G VR. UV filter. Nikon GP-1 GPS
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LATITUDE: N 51d 30m 22.07s
LONGITUDE: E 0d 7m 15.43s
ALTITUDE: 18.0m
Description: An LCC Tramways poster showing the statue of Boudica on the north side of Westminster Bridge, with the clock tower (containing Big Ben) in the background.
Artist: Fordred, R.F
Date of Execution: 1932
Medium: Poster
Collection: LCC Tramways
Collage No: 36967
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Y6BLC is seen resting on the Victoria Embankment.
Date: 21/01/2017
Photo No: 1531
Ref: YN64CBO/1
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on the left: The Adelphi Building, of simple, thin bricked design, is adorned by over-the-top friezes, including elephants and fish. The friezes and the doorway are in Art Deco style. The names of various UK cities are marked around the building.
in the center: The Shell Mex House (80 Strand), was designed in an Art Deco style by Ernest Joseph, a Jewish architect who was a leading designer of synagogue. The current building was completed in 1930–31 on the site of the Cecil Hotel. Standing 58 m (190 ft) tall, with 550,000 sq ft of floor space, Shell Mex House has 12 floors (plus basement and sub-basement) and is immediately recognizable from the River Thames by the clocktower positioned on the south side of the building (flanked by two large, hieratic figures at the south corners). The building was for many years the London headquarters of Shell-Mex and BP Ltd for whom it was originally built. In 1975, it became the head office of Shell UK Ltd. Today most of its floors are occupied by companies of Pearson PLC, including Penguin Books.
During WWII, the building became home to the Ministry of Supply which co-ordinated supply of equipment. It was also the home of the "Petroleum Board" which handled the distribution and rationing of petroleum during the war. It was badly damaged by a bomb in 1940. The building reverted to Shell-Mex and BP Ltd in 1948 with a number of floors remaining occupied by the Ministry of Aviation (latterly the Board of Trade, Civil Aviation Division) until the mid 1970's.
on the right: The Savoy Hotel is a five-star hotel found on the Strand. Opened in 1889, it was built in art deco style by Richard D'Oyly Carte. It remains one of London's most prestigious hotels, with 230 rooms. Its name derives from the Savoy Palace which once occupied the site. Its first manager was César Ritz, who later became the founder of The Ritz Hotel. The hotel was designed by T. E. Collcutt.
in the lower left corner: Cleopatra's Needles are a trio of obelisks in London, Paris, and New York City. Each is made of red granite, stands about 21 metres (68 feet) high, weighs about 180 tons and is inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphs. Although genuine Ancient Egyptian obelisks, none has any connection with queen Cleopatra VII. They were originally erected in Heliopolis on the orders of Thutmose III, around 1450 BC. The inscriptions were added about 200 years later by Ramses II to commemorate his military victories. The obelisks were moved to Alexandria and set up in the Caesarium — a temple built by Cleopatra in honor of Mark Antony. The London Needle was presented to the UKm in 1819 by Mehemet Ali, the Albanian-born viceroy of Egypt, in commemoration of the victories of Lord Nelson at the Battle of the Nile and Sir Ralph Abercromby at the Battle of Alexandria in 1801. It remained in Alexandria until 1877 when Sir William James Erasmus Wilsonsponsored its transportation to London at a cost of some £10,000.
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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This is a magic lantern slide showing Trafalgar Square looking northeast from the centre of the Square. The statue of General Gordon looks very new, it was placed here in October 1888 and now stands on Victoria Embankment outside the Ministry of Defence. There are two police constables from King Street police station, both are wearing the 1864 pattern tunic. The officer on the terrace appears to be looking at the banks of flowers which are adjacent to the King George IV equestrian statue. This is summer 1889 and from the beginning of July until the end of September, the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association in the guise of a Mr. Child placed flowering plants in banks against the two north inner corners of the square with the permission of the First Commissioner of Works. It appears that this was a one off and did not continue the following year. Much later during the refurbishment of the Square in 1948, raised flower beds were installed in front of the benches at the back of the Square, these in turn were removed during the most recent refurbishment during the early 2000s. In my day as a Police Constable posted to the square on a regular basis the flower beds and especially the seats behind them produced a never-ending flow of persons who were subject to arrest, people wanted on a warrant, juvenile runaways, vagrants, drunks, drug addicts etc, etc.
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A close up view of a packed London County Council paddle steamer, Earl Godwin, one of the thirty paddle steamers built for the LCC riverboat service in 1905. She was built in Glasgow by the Napier & Miller company at a cost of £6000.00 and named after the father of King Harold of Hastings fame. The riverboat service collapsed in 1907 and in 1909 she was sold to the City steamboat company for £393.00, they later sold her to a company in Dumbarton where she was renamed "Queen Mary".
Another look at Cleopatra's Needle, Victoria Embankment.
It was when the handle of "Unite the Kingdom" protestors were still around London.
Grade I listed building
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TQ 3080 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER VICTORIA EMBANKMENT, SW1 73/54 24.2.58 Cleopatra's Needle G.V. I Obelisk and sphinxes. The ancient Egyptian obelisk dating from the reign of Thothmes III and one of 2 originally erected in Heliopolis, brought to London as a gift in 1877 (by sea in a specially designed iron sea-going casing), the setting on the Embankment wall with the two huge bronze sphinxes designed by G F Vulliamy. The obelisk of pink granite. The base and water steps of granite. The sphinxes cast in bronze. Stepped platform with flanking sphinxes and granite pedestal to obelisk.
Listing NGR: TQ3054380516
For those less interested in Lovecraftian references or ancient gods, this is the London Eye seen from the perspective of a fish sculpture on the north shore of the Thames.
A British Airways Boeing 747 on finals for London, Heathrow. From between the bracing stays of the Jubilee footbridge, River Thames, Victoria Embankment, Central London.
EN: The view on Victoria Embankment and Blackfriars Bridge.
Long exposure photo taken from the Waterloo Bridge.
PL: Widok na Victoria Embankment i Blackfriars Bridge.
Zdjęcie z długim czasem naświetlania zrobione z Waterloo Bridge.
Hungerford Bridge and Golden Jubilee Bridges and River Thames.
View from the Victoria Embankment.
Houses of Parliament - Palace of Westminster
An aerial view looking eastwards from just above Lambeth Bridge. In the distance from the left is the GPO Tower completed in 1965 and the Centre Point building completed in 1966. There is no sign of the Tattershall Castle moored on Victoria Embankment so I think that this must be the early 1970s.
LJ09 OKK open top in service with Big Bus.com. Seen here along Victoria Embankment at the stop for Temple Station, London.
During the Queen's reign there have been 113 State Visits, the last being in October 2015 when the Chinese President came to the UK. The third State Visit was from Britain's oldest ally, Portugal. It is the oldest alliance between two sovereign states dating from 1386 when England and Portugal signed the Treaty of Windsor. This is Tuesday 25th October 1955 and the procession is in the Mall, the photograph shows a 'T' Division Constable who is on aid to Cannon Row for the day, always a nice change, a trip up to town from southwest London. Mounted Officers escort the procession which started out from Victoria Embankment. In the 1950s many visitors arrived by ship and in this case General Francisco Craveiro Lopes, the President of Portugal and Mrs. Lopes had travelled by sea in the Portuguese Navy's "Bartolomeu Dias" a frigate which was built in 1935 at the Tyneside ship builders R&W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd. The ship moored just upstream of Tower Bridge and the President and first Lady travelled to Westminster Pier in the Royal launch where they were greeted by the Queen and members of the Royal family. I have been on a few State visits but cannot remember such a show, this is more like the Trooping the Colour procession on its way to Buckingham Palace, State visit pomp and pageantry have been scaled back quite a bit.