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Detail of one of George Vulliamy's "dolphin lamps" on the Victoria Embankment, London. Although known as "dolphin lamps", the animal concerned actually appears to be sturgeon fish.
In the distance part of the London Eye can be seen.
Discover Dorset Tours of Bournemouth WA04 EWU.
A Mercedes-Benz Vario O815DT minicoach with Sitcar Beluga 1 C29F bodywork that was new to Cumfilux Coaches of Hillingdon, London and later operated as a Demonstrator for bus & coach dealer Moseley In The South of Wellington, Somerset.
It is seen here parked up on Victoria Embankment, London.
Date: 12.05.2013 15:32
Embankment Garden Cinema, Victoria Embankment Gardens, London. A temporary 780 seat fully equiiped cinema, created in Victoria Embankment Gardens for the London Film Festival. Complete with raked seating, Dolby surround sound a bar and 4k digital projection. Opening today, It will be removed again after the 2016 London Film Festival.
cinematreasures.org/theaters/53838
London, Embankment, Garden Cinema,
October 2016
London transport 's RTL1166,a Park Royal bodied Leyland Titan is knocked over by a tram on route 56 along the Victoria Embankment on 11th September 1951 when the Wandsworth garage bus on route 70 towards Wandsworth was turning out of Temple Place to head west crossed over the east bound tramway and was hit. Several passengers were injured on the bus.
River Thames from the South Bank in London.
We were looking for the Christmas Market that was around here.
Turns out that the South Bank Centre's Winter Festival starts from under the Hungerford Bridge. Was also some fun fair rides there as well!
boat - Tattershall Castle
Behind is the The Royal Horseguards Hotel.
Grade II* listed.
TQ 3080 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER WHITEHALL COURT SW1
83/68
5.2.70 Whitehall Court
GV II*
Mansion block of flats. 1884 by Thomas Archer and A. Green. Portland stone, slate
roofs. Vast elaborated pile with exuberant French Renaissance, Chateaux de la Loire
inspired details. 8 and 9 storeys on basement with a further 1 and 2 storeys of
attics in fantastic, pyramidal pavilion roofscape. 2 main pavilions to Embankment
Gardens - river front; 4 pavilions to Whitehall Court, the main one with flanking
cupolaed bays. 3 iron and glass canopied doorways. 2 and 3-light pilastered or
colonnetted windows; those in main pavilions set back in semicircular arched loggias,
in some cases run through 2 storeys; elaborate shaped and pedimented gabled dormers
with finials rising in tiers against the pavilion roofs which are crowned by
finialed cupolas; Chambord-like forest of ornamental chimney stacks. Enriched
string courses and cornices. Decorative iron work balconies and window guards.
Interior distribution fully serviced from the beginning with lifts; light wells
with stained glass to corridors and landings, mosaic floors, etc. The roofscape
makes a spectacular contribution to the view of Whitehall from St. James's Park.
Listing NGR: TQ3028980163
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
Source: English Heritage
Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence.
Noge Catalan Star
MAN 18.360
Year 2007
Date taken: 10/06/09
Location: Victoria Embankment, City of London, UK
Half a million people march in London to stop the cuts. 26.03.2011
The Trades Union Congress' (TUC) "March for the Alternative" today saw the streets of Central London choked solid with at least half a million Public Sector employees, Disability Rights and anti-war groups, students and many others who had travelled from the furthest corners of Great Britain to send a clarion call to the Cameron government that people are not going to idly stand by and silently watch Cameron and his chancellor George Osborne destroy the very heart of British Public Services for nothing more than archetypical right-wing ideology.
Huge, swingeing cuts across the entire range of Public Services by the Conservatives are designed to hand over control of the most vital state welfare functions to greedy, profit-driven, completely unaccountable private companies and to break the collective bargaining power and influence of the Trades Unions, whose members are being laid off by the tens of thousands under the premise of saving the economy which was almost destroyed by the same bankers and hedge-fund managers who now sit on Conservative government advisory panels.
The carnival-atmosphere march slowly threaded its way towards Hyde Park where rousing speeches by assorted Trades Union representatives sent out a call for concerted action to fight every single cut every step of the way, and to protect our vital services from Conservative dogma, which only favours the already-wealthy at the expense of the disposable poor and weak.
To date not a single banker has been tried and imprisoned for their outrageous, fraudulent and undoubtedly dishonest (if not illegal) practices leading directly to the crash of 2008 - a situation which could never have occured if the Financial Services Industry was firmly regulated by government. Tragically in the last thirty years the banks and their equally-greedy doppelgangers running the hedge funds have connived with supine Parliamentarians to dismantle huge swathes of vital regulation put in place by previous governments... such regulatory checks and balances being labelled as a massive hinderance which stopped the banks from making obscene, unfettered profit, albeit fraudulent.
Instead we now see the bankers picking up exactly where they left off, absolutely unapologetic, giving themselves billions of pounds in bonuses whilst the poorest in our midst are having essential support and benefits axed as the Conservatives brazenly use the compliant Murdoch press to demonize the poor and the disabled, labelling them all as mere fraudsters and parasites.
Eleswhere, predictably, the usual cohort of violent "Anarchists" - many seemingly associated with University College Union - wrought their usual havoc along Oxford Street, parts of the West End and Piccadilly, targetting businesses run by companies publicly exposed by whistleblowers as using massive, complex, completely opaque tax avoidance schemes in Tax Havens - and doing illegal "sweetheart" deals with the Inland Revenue to avoid paying their fair share of corporation taxes, which, if they were forced to do so would pay this country's deficit off without public services being axed. Cameron and Osborne choose instead to protect this immoral status-quo, which is unsurprising - the Cabinet reportedly contains 14 multi-millionaires, and the revolving door between government and bank directorships is both insidious and notorious.
The anarchists smashed windows, threw paint bombs and fireworks and had running battles with the police across Central London, and, much to the fury of the grown-ups has poisoned the moral high ground which was being gently but brilliantly occupied by UK Uncut with their humorous, pacific occupations of the same premises where they have in the past set up temporary libraries, hospitals and creches in their intelligently organised grass-roots campaigns to shame the government to force companies to pay their dues.
Sadly the anarchists' aggressive direct-action (and the thousands of adrenaline-inducing photographs of their actions which will now completely dominate the national dialogue for weeks) instantly and conveniently paves the way for the Cameron government to impose severe restrictions on public protests and the right to assemble in the future. Costs, budgets and the need to "protect legitimate businesses from mindless criminal attack" will be the reasons given. Many people suspect that the anarchist groups contain deep-cover police and/or MI5 officers who are also maybe agent provocateurs, sometimes leading the violence. This can no longer be instantly dismissed as mere conspiracy theory as recent discoveries of police infiltration and manipulation of peace campaign groups (including the Quakers) over the last decade have now been proven in court, and discussed in Parliament.
Though people are clearly very, very angry with the Tories and their outright election lies which got their grasping fingers on the levers of power, and it is completely understandable that many feel that politely marching up the road in truth achieves absolutely nothing (which fact was openly displayed on this evening's National News by a stone-faced Treasury spokeswoman who stated flatly and repeatedly that today's huge march would not make the slightest bit of difference to their intentions, whether it was half a million or ten million marchers), I have chosen nevertheless to honour the dedication and peaceful political expression of those hundreds of thousands of concerned, threatened citizens from every walk of life who gathered today to express their political will, whose efforts have been smeared by a mindless, immature minority of thugs - and the media which is now having a gleeful feeding frenzy on the violence which gives them carte blanche to totally ignore the powerful message delivered to David Cameron by the peaceful marchers.
Enjoy the carnival...
All photos © 2011 Pete Riches
Do not use my images without my permission
Continued : Half a million people march in London to stop the cuts. 26.03.2011
This large photo set celebrates the hundreds of thousands of decent, peaceful people who put so much effort into the best march you never saw...
Last weekend the TUC's "March for the Alternative" demonstration saw Central London streets packed with half a million Public Sector employees, Disability Rights and anti-war groups, students and many others angry at government cuts. As we all know the day's events were completely stolen by the selfish, cretinous actions of a couple of hundred juvenile "Anarchists" who used the day's events as cover to cause havoc all over Central London, attacking shops, businesses and the police for no reason other than jealousy, sociopathy and a desire to cause criminal damage. These are football thugs by any other name, no more, no less.
The so-called Anarchists claim they are fighting back against Capitalism, the Establishment and all Agents of the State - the Police, especially - and are doing what they do to show that they are not Slaves to the State or the Corporations, yet they are the first to complain if they think that someone has behaved illegally towards them like the immature children they are. I don't know if they can see the irony in organising their raids by Blackberry, Android phones and Twitter, but I can't help feeling that if someone attacked them in the street and stole their precious smartphones off them before kicking the living crap out of them they'd be crying and wailing all the way to the nearest police station to report the crime and wait there until Daddy comes to pick them up in the Range Rover...
The truth is that they are nothing more than Useful Idiots, serving the propaganda purposes of the very Corporations which they claim to detest, and if they had any vision beyond their aggressive juvenile male urge to smash the place up and piss on all the lamp posts to mark their fictitious territory, they'd maybe understand that they will always fail. You change large systems from within, and it takes time and intelligence, and the ability to win hearts and minds. At the moment in this country there are several million working and lower middle-class people fighting for their very survival at the hands of this ideology-driven right-wing government, and what they don't need are these utter morons robbing them of their huge public display of moral and social unity.
Predictably the Media the next week was awash with pornographic photos of Useful Idiots smashing bank windows and other Useful idiots throwing paintbombs at the police, and to all intents and puposes the half a million people who marched that day should have saved all the precious money they wasted hiring coaches, getting trains, driving down to London, because these Useful Idiots made a mockery of their aspirations as working class people.
As far as I'm concerned the tedious, unintelligent Black Bloc and Red Sky "anarchists" are as much our enemy as the Banks and Hedge Funds.
All photos © 2011 Pete Riches
Do not use my photos without my permission
A London Transport tram exits the Kingsway tramway tunnel onto Victoria Embankment just before the outbreak of WW2. The old Waterloo Bridge is being demolished and it would take until the end of the war to be rebuilt, by a mainly female workforce.
Police post on Victoria Embankment, opposite Inner Temple Gardens.
"There were initially two types of London police box. The smaller version was known as a police post, and contained just a telephone and a first aid kit, topped by a light. Around 70 of these were installed in the Metropolitan Police District. The larger version was the conventional police box...A few of the original police posts still remain on the streets in London, most noticeably at Piccadilly Circus."
Source: www.policeboxes.com/pboxhist.htm
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River Thames from the South Bank in London.
We were looking for the Christmas Market that was around here.
Turns out that the South Bank Centre's Winter Festival starts from under the Hungerford Bridge. Was also some fun fair rides there as well!
boat - Tattershall Castle
Behind is the The Royal Horseguards Hotel.
Grade II* listed.
TQ 3080 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER WHITEHALL COURT SW1
83/68
5.2.70 Whitehall Court
GV II*
Mansion block of flats. 1884 by Thomas Archer and A. Green. Portland stone, slate
roofs. Vast elaborated pile with exuberant French Renaissance, Chateaux de la Loire
inspired details. 8 and 9 storeys on basement with a further 1 and 2 storeys of
attics in fantastic, pyramidal pavilion roofscape. 2 main pavilions to Embankment
Gardens - river front; 4 pavilions to Whitehall Court, the main one with flanking
cupolaed bays. 3 iron and glass canopied doorways. 2 and 3-light pilastered or
colonnetted windows; those in main pavilions set back in semicircular arched loggias,
in some cases run through 2 storeys; elaborate shaped and pedimented gabled dormers
with finials rising in tiers against the pavilion roofs which are crowned by
finialed cupolas; Chambord-like forest of ornamental chimney stacks. Enriched
string courses and cornices. Decorative iron work balconies and window guards.
Interior distribution fully serviced from the beginning with lifts; light wells
with stained glass to corridors and landings, mosaic floors, etc. The roofscape
makes a spectacular contribution to the view of Whitehall from St. James's Park.
Listing NGR: TQ3028980163
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
Source: English Heritage
Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence.
This is a Stengel & Co undivided back postcard printed in Dresden showing Westminster Pier and New Scotland Yard together with Montague House and Whitehall Court. The photograph dates from about 1894 but was published around 1898. New Scotland Yard is four to five years old at this point and has yet to be expanded by the addition of the south annexe which was built in 1902-1906 and named Scotland House. The Paddle Steamer coming into Westminster Pier is a Victoria Steamboat Association paddle steamer, that company only lasted from 1890 until 1896. The steamer looks like one of the boats built for the River Thames Steamboat Company by the Samuda Bros at Poplar in 1889, the River Thames Steamboat Company was taken over by the Victoria Steamboat Association in 1890. The three boats were The Shah, Kaiser and H.M. Stanley.
On the left is the rear entrance to 4 Whitehall Place the original headquarters of the Metropolitan Police. At the rear in Great Scotland Yard was a small Police Station. Through the arch can be seen Whitehall and the columns at the front of the Admiralty building. The centre image shows the building on Victoria Embankment which everybody knows as New Scotland Yard and dating from 1890. It is now known as the Norman Shaw building after its architect. The image on the right is the current New Scotland Yard in Victoria Street which took over from its predecessor in 1967, I do not know the name of the architect and I cannot be bothered to find out, it is a terrible matchbox of a building.
A mounted Police Officer travelling towards Westminster Bridge along Victoria Embankment with Charing Cross Railway bridge in the background. He will probably turn right at Horseguards Avenue and onto Great Scotland Yard where the stables are situated.
River Thames from the South Bank in London.
We were looking for the Christmas Market that was around here.
Turns out that the South Bank Centre's Winter Festival starts from under the Hungerford Bridge. Was also some fun fair rides there as well!
The Playhouse - An Inspector Calls
Grade II listed building
Playhouse Theatre, Westminster
TO 3080 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER CRAVEN STREET, WC2
83/46
9.1.70 Playhouse Theatre
G.V. II
Theatre. 1881-82 by F.H. Fowler as the Royal Avenue Theatre, interior
reconstructed 1906-07 by Blow and Billerey. Painted stone, concealed
roof. Restrained and elegant classical design. 2 storeys. 11 windows
wide with curved south east end. Ground floor doorways grouped to corner
under canopy, and blind architraved and corniced windows in rusticated
ground floor articulated by modified Corinthian pilasters supporting
entablature. The tall upper storey has architraved windows with
pediments on consoles and blind oculi above, articulated by giant
pilasters supporting full entablature and balustraded parapet. The
interior is an elegant exercise in Blow and Billerey's Louis XV manner:
kidney-shaped outer foyer with cresting of ribboned sprigs to inner
archway; panelled inner foyer with cartouche-trophy of musical
instruments; the auditorium has basket-arch proscenium set in deep reveal
framing the boxes, the arch surmounted by an achievement of figures of
Fame crowning Thalia; kidney-shaped lower and upper balconies, the lower
continuing the line of the upper boxes, all with turned baluster fronts;
caryatids flank the (former) lower boxes, supporting upper ones; sweeping
basket arch frames uppermost part of auditorium; circular dome and oval
panel of ceiling and the basket arch wall panels all decorated in
grisaille. Stage machinery probably dating from 1906-07 reconstruction.
The Theatres of London; Mander and Mitchenson.
Listing NGR: TQ3031880345
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
Source: English Heritage
Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence.
Victoria Embankment, A3211, Westminster, London, City of Westminster, England, UK
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Lens: Zeiss Makro-Planar T* 2/100 ZE
Focal Length: 100 mm
Exposure: ¹⁄₂₅₀ sec at f/2.0
ISO: 400
Half a million people march in London to stop the cuts. 26.03.2011
The Trades Union Congress' (TUC) "March for the Alternative" today saw the streets of Central London choked solid with at least half a million Public Sector employees, Disability Rights and anti-war groups, students and many others who had travelled from the furthest corners of Great Britain to send a clarion call to the Cameron government that people are not going to idly stand by and silently watch Cameron and his chancellor George Osborne destroy the very heart of British Public Services for nothing more than archetypical right-wing ideology.
Huge, swingeing cuts across the entire range of Public Services by the Conservatives are designed to hand over control of the most vital state welfare functions to greedy, profit-driven, completely unaccountable private companies and to break the collective bargaining power and influence of the Trades Unions, whose members are being laid off by the tens of thousands under the premise of saving the economy which was almost destroyed by the same bankers and hedge-fund managers who now sit on Conservative government advisory panels.
The carnival-atmosphere march slowly threaded its way towards Hyde Park where rousing speeches by assorted Trades Union representatives sent out a call for concerted action to fight every single cut every step of the way, and to protect our vital services from Conservative dogma, which only favours the already-wealthy at the expense of the disposable poor and weak.
To date not a single banker has been tried and imprisoned for their outrageous, fraudulent and undoubtedly dishonest (if not illegal) practices leading directly to the crash of 2008 - a situation which could never have occured if the Financial Services Industry was firmly regulated by government. Tragically in the last thirty years the banks and their equally-greedy doppelgangers running the hedge funds have connived with supine Parliamentarians to dismantle huge swathes of vital regulation put in place by previous governments... such regulatory checks and balances being labelled as a massive hinderance which stopped the banks from making obscene, unfettered profit, albeit fraudulent.
Instead we now see the bankers picking up exactly where they left off, absolutely unapologetic, giving themselves billions of pounds in bonuses whilst the poorest in our midst are having essential support and benefits axed as the Conservatives brazenly use the compliant Murdoch press to demonize the poor and the disabled, labelling them all as mere fraudsters and parasites.
Eleswhere, predictably, the usual cohort of violent "Anarchists" - many seemingly associated with University College Union - wrought their usual havoc along Oxford Street, parts of the West End and Piccadilly, targetting businesses run by companies publicly exposed by whistleblowers as using massive, complex, completely opaque tax avoidance schemes in Tax Havens - and doing illegal "sweetheart" deals with the Inland Revenue to avoid paying their fair share of corporation taxes, which, if they were forced to do so would pay this country's deficit off without public services being axed. Cameron and Osborne choose instead to protect this immoral status-quo, which is unsurprising - the Cabinet reportedly contains 14 multi-millionaires, and the revolving door between government and bank directorships is both insidious and notorious.
The anarchists smashed windows, threw paint bombs and fireworks and had running battles with the police across Central London, and, much to the fury of the grown-ups has poisoned the moral high ground which was being gently but brilliantly occupied by UK Uncut with their humorous, pacific occupations of the same premises where they have in the past set up temporary libraries, hospitals and creches in their intelligently organised grass-roots campaigns to shame the government to force companies to pay their dues.
Sadly the anarchists' aggressive direct-action (and the thousands of adrenaline-inducing photographs of their actions which will now completely dominate the national dialogue for weeks) instantly and conveniently paves the way for the Cameron government to impose severe restrictions on public protests and the right to assemble in the future. Costs, budgets and the need to "protect legitimate businesses from mindless criminal attack" will be the reasons given. Many people suspect that the anarchist groups contain deep-cover police and/or MI5 officers who are also maybe agent provocateurs, sometimes leading the violence. This can no longer be instantly dismissed as mere conspiracy theory as recent discoveries of police infiltration and manipulation of peace campaign groups (including the Quakers) over the last decade have now been proven in court, and discussed in Parliament.
Though people are clearly very, very angry with the Tories and their outright election lies which got their grasping fingers on the levers of power, and it is completely understandable that many feel that politely marching up the road in truth achieves absolutely nothing (which fact was openly displayed on this evening's National News by a stone-faced Treasury spokeswoman who stated flatly and repeatedly that today's huge march would not make the slightest bit of difference to their intentions, whether it was half a million or ten million marchers), I have chosen nevertheless to honour the dedication and peaceful political expression of those hundreds of thousands of concerned, threatened citizens from every walk of life who gathered today to express their political will, whose efforts have been smeared by a mindless, immature minority of thugs - and the media which is now having a gleeful feeding frenzy on the violence which gives them carte blanche to totally ignore the powerful message delivered to David Cameron by the peaceful marchers.
Enjoy the carnival...
All photos © 2011 Pete Riches
Do not use my images without my permission
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...
All photos ⓒ Pete Riches
Please do not use my photos without my prior agreement.
Please do not re-blog my photos without my agreement.
Email: peteriches@gmail.com
A memorial donated by the people of Belgium to the British people, for their grateful help during the First World War of 1914 - 1918.
The Belgium War Memorial 1914 - 1918 is opposite Cleopatra's Needle.
This section says Justice.
Wika Trans of Świnoujście, Poland GD-869-EH (PL), a Polish owned DAF MX300 with Solaris Vacanza 12 bodywork.
It is seen here parked up infront of Scotland & Bates Coach Travel of Appledore, Kent WA12 AWJ, a Volvo B13RT with Van Hool T9 Acron C53FT bodywork.
They are both seen here parked up on Victoria Embankment, London.
Date: 12.05.2013 15:34
Nottingham War Memorial Gardens. Designed by Thomas Wallis Gordon and opened in 1927, the Memorial is grade 2 listed. Extensively restored in 2022.
City of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England - War Memorial Gardens, Victoria Embankment
May 2022
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...
All photos ⓒ Pete Riches
Please do not use my photos without my prior agreement.
Please do not re-blog my photos without my agreement.
Email: peteriches@gmail.com
The Great Soul Pretenders at Nottingham Riverside Festival. Aug 2012
Watch my video on YouTube: youtu.be/_vLX2a4tXEY?hd=1
Mercedes Benz Tourismo
Year 2007
Date taken: 11/09/09
Location: Victoria Embankment, City of London, UK
From Germany
This is a divided back postcard posted to Switzerland in September 1903 but the photograph was taken over ten years previously. The photograph was taken from Hungerford Bridge and shows amongst other things the Cleopatra swimming pool. The floating swimming pool was originally moored just upstream of Hungerford Bridge and opened in 1875 (see photo below), the swimming pool company went out of business in 1885 and the pool was abandoned in the Surrey docks for several years. In 1890 or thereabouts the pool was renovated by its new owners and towed to the position shown just downstream of Hungerford Bridge. This incarnation lasted for about 18 months and in September 1892 it was sold by auction and scrapped.
The sender of the postcard has written a message on the obverse, the reverse of the card could only be used for the address prior to 1903, the post office rules changed in 1903 which allowed the reverse to be divided into two spaces, one for the message and the other for the address but in this case the sender has reverted to the old way of using the postcard despite the postcard having a divided back.
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...
All photos ⓒ Pete Riches
Please do not use my photos without my prior agreement.
Please do not re-blog my photos without my agreement.
Email: peteriches@gmail.com