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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.
This is a postcard in the St. Paul's Hospital Competition series. The penny postcard was sold by St. Paul's Hospital in a competition where the purchaser could win a first prize of £1000 by naming the twelve most popular flowers in order of popularity from a list of twenty. The competition ran for two months, November and December 1924, payments to winners were just in time for Christmas. Since its founding in 1898 as a hospital for treating skin and Genito-Urinary diseases, but specialising in the treatment of Venereal Disease at Red Lion Square, the Hospital had struggled to finance its free services and relied on wealthy donors. The Hospital moved to Endell Street in Covent Garden and occupied the former British Lying in Hospital and began to receive patients in 1923.
The view shows the Thames and Charing Cross Pier from Hungerford Bridge looking downstream, the paddle steamer about to arrive at the pier is a former London County Council Steamer and now owned by the City Steamboat Company. It appears that they have added an additional stripe to the funnel, other than that the livery is LCC.
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.
River cruise boat passing Victoria Embankment. Taken from the Southbank on07/05/2013 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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On Saturday October 18, 2014, around 90,000 people took part in "Britain Needs A Pay Rise," a march and rally in London organised by the TUC (Trades Union Congress) to highlight the growing inequality in the UK, and to call for an increase in pay for those who are not in the top 10% of earners, who, it was recently revealed, now control 54.1% of the country's wealth. The London march began on Victoria Embankment and proceeded to Hyde Park, where there was a rally. Other protests took place in Glasgow and Belfast. I photographed this elderly protestor, with these powerful placards, by Embankment station.
As I explained in an article before the protest, I was "extremely glad to see the TUC putting together a major protest, as it is exactly two years since the last major TUC-organised protest, 'A Future That Works'. Prior to that, there was the 'March for the Alternative' in March 2011."
As I also explained, "I must admit to being extremely disappointed that the unions have not organised massive anti-austerity protests every six months against the butchers of the Tory-led coalition government, who continue with their efforts to destroy almost every aspect of the British state, privatising almost everything that was not privatised by Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and to hand it all over to unaccountable profiteers -- with the exception of their own jobs, and their lavish expenses, and, presumably, parts of the judiciary, the military and the intelligence services."
For the TUC, see: www.tuc.org.uk/
For the Britain Needs A Pay Rise website, see: britainneedsapayrise.org/
For my article publicising the march, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/2014/10/16/please-support-brita...
For my photos of "A Future That Works" in October 2012, see: www.flickr.com/photos/andyworthington/sets/72157631818307...
and: www.flickr.com/photos/andyworthington/sets/72157631831036...
For my article about the "March for the Alternative" in March 2011, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/2011/03/26/on-the-anti-cuts-pro...
For my most interesting photos, see: www.flickriver.com/photos/andyworthington/popular-interes...
River Thames from the Victoria Embankment, London.
London Skyline as it is in 2022.
Southbank Centre is a complex of artistic venues in London, England, on the South Bank of the River Thames (between Hungerford Bridge and Waterloo Bridge).
It comprises three main performance venues (the Royal Festival Hall including the National Poetry Library, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Purcell Room), together with the Hayward Gallery, and is Europe’s largest centre for the arts. It attracted 4.36 million visitors during 2019. Over two thousand paid performances of music, dance and literature are staged at Southbank Centre each year, as well as over two thousand free events and an education programme, in and around the performing arts venues. In addition, three to six major art exhibitions are presented at the Hayward Gallery yearly, and national touring exhibitions reach over 100 venues across the UK.
The Royal National Theatre in London, commonly known as the National Theatre (NT), is one of the United Kingdom's three most prominent publicly funded performing arts venues, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Opera House. Internationally, it is known as the National Theatre of Great Britain.
Founded by Laurence Olivier in 1963, many well-known actors have performed at the National Theatre. Until 1976, the company was based at The Old Vic theatre in Waterloo. The current building is located next to the Thames in the South Bank area of central London. In addition to performances at the National Theatre building, the National Theatre tours productions at theatres across the United Kingdom. The theatre has transferred numerous productions to Broadway and toured some as far as China, Australia and New Zealand. However, touring productions to European cities was suspended in February 2021 over concerns about uncertainty over work permits, additional costs and delays because of Brexit. Permission to add the "Royal" prefix to the name of the theatre was given in 1988, but the full title is rarely used. The theatre presents a varied programme, including Shakespeare, other international classic drama, and new plays by contemporary playwrights. Each auditorium in the theatre can run up to three shows in repertoire, thus further widening the number of plays which can be put on during any one season.
In June 2009, the theatre began National Theatre Live (NT Live), a programme of simulcasts of live productions to cinemas, first in the United Kingdom and then internationally. The programme began with a production of Phèdre, starring Helen Mirren, which was screened live in 70 cinemas across the UK. NT Live productions have since been broadcast to over 2,500 venues in 60 countries around the world. In November 2020, National Theatre at Home was announced. It is a video on demand streaming service, specifically created for National Theatre Live recordings. Videos of plays are added every month, and can be "rented" for temporary viewing, or unlimited recordings can be watched through a monthly or yearly subscription programme.
The NT had an annual turnover of approximately £105 million in 2015–16, of which earned income made up 75% (58% from ticket sales, 5% from NT Live and Digital, and 12% from commercial revenue such as in the restaurants, bars, bookshop, etc.). Support from Arts Council England provided 17% of income, 1% from Learning and Participation activity, and the remaining 9% came from a mixture of companies, individuals, trusts and foundations.
Inside Unilever House on the Victoria Embankment, on Open House weekend in London. In the centre of the photo is a scale model of the original 1929 art deco building; the outer shell remains pretty much the same, but inside it is very modern and shiny...
River Thames *highlights*
Tower Lifeboat Station
Lifeboat Pier
Victoria Embankment
London WC2
Taken 1/jan/2025 from Waterloo Bridge
After the 25th London Flickr Group Walk (Marylebone/Wesf End)
This place is Victoria Embankment, at the turning to Westminster Bridge, London. On the opposite bank of the Thames you can see a part of London Eye. I took this picture from the upper deck of a Tour bus, and could not take the details of the beautiful statue.
This is a Magic Lantern slide showing the statue of General Sir. James Outram in Victoria Embankment Gardens looking west. The Statue is by Matthew Noble. Outram was a career soldier with the East India Company and fought in many of the campaigns to establish the Company in India culminating in the Indian Mutiny in 1857. He famously led a force to relieve Lucknow and was voted by his men to receive the Victoria Cross which was not granted as he was commanding officer. The statue was unveiled by Lord Halifax on 17th August 1871. The statue was due to stand on Trafalgar Square near the statue of Sir. Henry Havelock, another soldier who fought in the Indian Mutiny, but this was refused by the first Commissioner of works and the location on Victoria Embankment was offered and accepted. Unlike many other London statues which have been moved and relocated over the years, this one remains in its original spot whilst all around it changed. I think that the photograph was taken shortly after the unveiling, in the background Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square can be seen as well as the end of Northumberland Street with a Huggins and Company Public House on the corner. In 1874 Northumberland House was demolished together with part of Northumberland Street including the pub to make way for the building of Northumberland Avenue. The bulk of Northumberland House is obscured by the statue but its gardens to the left, which were described as a wild area in central London can be seen. There were suggestions that young trees from the gardens could be transplanted to Victoria Embankment Gardens. Any photograph from the same vantage point taken today would show the Liberal Club and Whitehall Court, which were built in the mid 1880s, in the background and the statue surrounded by trees and small shrubs and beds in Victoria Embankment Gardens.
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Portcullis House
Bridge Street cv Victoria Embankment. Westminster. Londres
Michael Hopkins. Michael Hopkins and Partners. Estructura Ove Arup & Partners. 1992-2001
Edificio de oficinas, proyectado en 1992 y finalizado en 2001 para proporcionar despachos para 213 miembros del Parlamento y su personal, aumentando el espacio limitado en el Palacio de Westminster y sus alrededores. Las construcciones existentes en el lugar fueron demolidas en 1994. Al mismo tiempo, el metro de Londres construía la ampliación de la línea Jubilee, que incluye la nueva estación de intercambio de Westminster que ocupa la misma zona; los dos proyectos fueron diseñados y construidos como una unidad.
El edificio se enfrenta a las Casas del parlamento y al icónico Big Ben y el resultado final está en sintonía con el entorno histórico y patrimonial en que se sitúa
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This is Wednesday 17th May 1967 and HM Queen Elizabeth II has just paid a visit to the brand new headquarters of the Metropolitan Police in Broadway, SW1. I believe that this photograph may have been taken by my mother who worked in the Restaurant at NSY. She had previously worked at Cannon Row in the canteen but had been persuaded to move to the new building when the old New Scotland Yard moved from Victoria Embankment. The next incarnation of New Scotland Yard will be the Curtis Green building on Victoria Embankment which was originally built in the 1930s as overflow accommodation for New Scotland Yard. The Broadway headquarters now holds the record of being the shortest lived HQ of the Metropolitan Police so far, a mere forty nine years.
HQS Wellington, HMS Chrysanthemum, and HMS President, in order left to right, lie permanently moored at Victoria Embankment, on the North bank of River Thames, whilst barges are moored on this then working river.
14 small dinghys sail in and out of the barges, making their way upstream, destination unknown. The tide is just below low tide, and appears to be coming in.
This picture was taken from WATERLOO BRIDGE - 1964, with the view towards St. Pauls' Cathedral, as it used to look. Blackfriars Bridge is also partially in the view.
Note the absence of high rise buildings, with no sign of The National Westminster Bank Tower [Tower 42], or the ubiquitous Gherkin.
They, and a myriad of other monstrous carbunkles, had yet to be built.
Scanned from a 120 Roll Film slide, Bencini Koroll II camera.
A late 1960s postcard from colourmaster showing amongst other things, PC 649A Tony Phillips on the right from Cannon Row Police Station and a mounted Officer on the left from Great Scotland Yard stables. The photograph of PC Phillips was originally taken to be used in a recruiting campaign which doesn't happen these days.
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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