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HMS WELLINGTON began her successful career in the 1930s. Laid down in September 1933 at Devonport Dockyard, launched in May 1934, she entered service in January 1935. Her purpose was as an Imperial Patrol Sloop destined for the New Zealand Station. She was a Grimsby Class Sloop and displaced 990 tons with a cruising speed of 10 knots and a maximum speed of 16 knots. Occasional open days, to view the ship, are now available
This excellent banner and fancy dress combo from today's TUC-organised "A Future That Works" march and rally in central London featured an uncannily life-like Margaret Thatcher impression. The reference to "plebs," of course, follows Tory Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell's outburst towards a policeman last month. Mitchell clung onto his job until yesterday, Friday October 19, when he resigned, perhaps to divert flak from Chancellor George Osborne and his fair-dodging debacle.
See: www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/oct/19/andrew-mitchell-r...
For George Osborne, see: www.flickr.com/photos/andyworthington/8106660344/in/photo...
For more on Andy Worthington, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/
No one seemed to be making much of it on the TUC-organised "A Future That Works" march and rally in central London on Saturday October 20, 2012, but I thought the presence -- on Victoria Embankment by Westminster Bridge, and directly opposite the House of Parliament -- of this Edwardian statue of Boudicca (also known as Boadicea), the queen of the Iceni tribe, who dared to take on the might of Imperial Rome, was symbolically significant. The statue -- of Boudicca and her daughters -- was initially sculpted by Thomas Thornycroft, who died in 1885, but it was not cast and erected on the bridge until 1902.
For more on Andy Worthington, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/
Today my new tripod head was delivered to work, a Manfrotto 410 Geared Head, so I decided it would be prudent to give it a try on the way home. My cycle home takes me down the Victoria Embankment and across the Wilford Suspension Bridge, so it seemed like the perfect oppertunity. Here's one of the shots from this evening, I always love shooting this bridge.
As for the 410 geared head, I'm very pleased. It's a bit of a big and heavy beast, but really does allow for much greater control of framing. My previous head (Giottos MH1301) was very versatile, but always suffered from a bit of give once locked off. I'd highly recomend the manfrotto 410
John Carpenter, the famous playwright, composer, and film director, has been commemorated by the Corporation of London here naming a street after him in postal district EC4. The street's exact post code is EC4Y 0AN.
Check it on Yahoo! Maps or Google Maps.
John Howard Carpenter was born on 16 January 1948. He has worked in numerous film genres, and is considered one of the most accomplished and influential horror and science fiction directors in Hollywood.
His best film to date, ironically also his first (and made on a shoestring budget) is Dark Star. If you haven't seen it then watch it, watch it now.
Following my visit to the Strand, I made my way to Temple Station on my way to Hyde Park and Park Lane.
Still in very much the condition when withdrawn from service,P.S. 'Tattershall Castle', looks well pratronised on a warm autumn day at Victoria Embankment, London, on 05-10-1986. Another floating restaurant ship, R.S. 'Hispaniola' is on the right.
The Tattershall Castle was built by W. Gray & Co. in 1934 and was a vital passenger link across the Humber estuary ferrying passengers across the stretch of treacherous water between Hull and New Holland.
The paddle steamer made about eight trips a day carrying up to 1050 passengers in three compartments and on the deck.
Apart from her role as a passenger vessel, the Tattershall Castle had space on board for cars and livestock. Sheep, pigs, cattle and horses could all be tethered or penned for the 40-minute crossing.
More than 1,000,000 passengers were ferried during its 40 years of operation. During the war the Tattershall Castle was commandeered for a short period as a tethering vessel for barrage balloons on the Humber estuary. This role was very short lived. The transportation of the troops and vital munitions and supplies across the Humber proved far too important to allow the Tattershall Castle away from the estuary.
Wartime also saw the Tattershall Castle become the first civil vessel to carry radar. Her radar proved crucial on the foggy Humber. Just after the war during a routine crossing her radar picked up an unidentified floating object on the screen, on investigation the crew found part of one of Britain’s first oil rigs which had broken loose from its moorings during a storm.
After the war it carried on its business as a ferry until 1973 when urgent repair work was required for her boilers. This work was deemed too costly for her to carry on as a ferry and as a result the Tattershall Castle was retired from service.
Since 1981 the Tattershall Castle has been run as a bar & restaurant and has been considered one of the capital's best since then. The ship was refurbished in 2004 and again in 2009
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1933-1935: TSS Queen Mary
1935-1976: TSS Queen Mary II
1976-: TSS Queen Mary
The two funnel Clyde steamer TS Queen Mary was built at the William Denny shipyard at Dumbarton for Williamson-Buchanan. The 871 gross tons steamer was powered by three direct drive steam turbines, and carried 2086 passengers making her the largest (though not the longest) excursion turbine on the River Clyde.
In 1981 the ship was bought by the Lau family and taken south to London to become a floating restaurant but unfortunately it did not end well until 1987 where it was sold to the Bass PLC. She underwent a £2.5m refurbishment in 1997 and was moored at Victoria Embankment. Facilities included two bars and two function rooms. The top deck of the ship was used as an open air venue with bar facilities.
In November 2009, the ship was towed out of London. She was purchased by Samuel Boudon who had plans for her renovation and mooring in La Rochelle, France as a floating restaurant and fitness centre.
In October 2015 the Glasgow-based charity Friends of TS Queen Mary purchased the ship. In May 2016, after being made seaworthy, the Queen Mary was towed from Tilbury to Greenock. The ship's return to the Firth of Clyde on 16 May 2016 was her first visit to her former home since 1981.
The ship is now berthed at the entrance of Princes' Dock beside the Glasgow Science Centre.
An accident on Victoria Embankment close to New Scotland Yard in 1930. The building in the background is Montague House which was demolished after WW2 to make way for the Ministry of Defence building. They didn't screw them together very well in those days. I am glad to see that the London Plane Tree survived.
Construction work under way on TfL's East-West cycle superhighway at Temple on the Victoria Embankment, London WC2.
Sony A7 + Canon FDn 35mm f/2.8.
Setra S415 GT HD
Mercedes Benz
Year 2008
Date taken: 11/09/09
Location: Victoria Embankment, City of London, UK
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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Description: View of no. 2 Temple Place, Victoria Embankment. © Estate of Geoffrey Fletcher
Artist: Fletcher, Geoffrey
Date of Execution: 1964
Medium: Pen
Collection: Main Print Collection
Ref No: SC/GL/PR/599/VIC
Find out more about Geoffrey Fletcher on our image library and our online catalogue.
The View from The Shard is a tourist attraction based in London's tallest building, The Shard. The attraction offers visitors views from the skyscraper, with two viewing platforms inside the building: the first is a triple level indoor gallery on Level 69, and the second is a partially outdoor gallery on Level 72.
The attraction also has a ground floor gift shop as well as 'The Sky Boutique,' on Level 68, with bespoke designs and limited edition souvenirs. It is the highest shop in London.
Another long exposure experiment down on the Victoria Embankment. A couple of weeks back, a Lee Big Stopper arrived in the post, and to date I have not had the oppertunity to give it a try. I took off from work a little early today, and headed down to the embankment. When I left there was alot of cloud movement, and some nice patches of clear sky too. By the time I got to the Embankment however, the cloud cover had thickened, so I didnt expect to capture great movement in the clouds. On the plus side however, I new the long exposure would render the Trent with a wonderful, silky smooth effect.
Here is the final shot, a 141 second exposure, at f/11 ISO 100. A Lee Filters 0.6 hard edge ND Grad was used to control exposure in the sky, while the Lee Big Stopper (a 10 stop ND) was used to dramatically extend the daytime exposure. Post processed using LR3 and Silver efex.
In the commments, are a couple of shots demonstrating the standard exposure with 0.6GND, and a second showing the colour, long exposure before subsiquent processing.
The Original Tour's MCW Metrobus MKII EMB768/E968JAR is seen here being towed along the Victoria Embankment after breaking down in the City Centre.
"Two Temple Place, known for many years as Astor House, is a building situated near Victoria Embankment in central London.
"On 28 October 2011, Two Temple Place opened as a public gallery. It is a London venue specifically to showcase publicly owned art from regional collections in the United Kingdom, and is only open to the public during exhibitions.
"The building was built by John Loughborough Pearson for William Waldorf Astor, in 1895. Originally known as the Astor Estate Office, it had a residential flat above the offices for Viscount Astor's use (Pevsner). It consists of two floors and a lower ground floor and is designed to be in the Early Elizabethan style and is built entirely of Portland stone. It has splendid carvings on the exterior stonework by Nathaniel Hitch. and above the machicolated parapets is a weather vane, representing the caravel Santa Maria in which Columbus discovered America.
"The intention was to symbolize the connection of the path of discovery of his ancestor John Jacob Astor and the linking of United States and Europe. It was executed by J. Starkie Gardner, the English metal worker, who was responsible for all metalwork inside and outside the building."
Source: Wikipedia
These Parliament offices are situated in the buildings known as the "New Scotland Yard" designed by Norman Shaw, typically identifies by white stone and brick banding.
Literary Associations:
Scotland Yard operated from these buildings from 1890 until 1967 when it moved to ts present premises near St James's tube station on Victoria Street SW1.
Whilst still located in these buildings on the Embankmen. in 1929t the Yardies mounted an operation to confiscate a book of poems by DH Lawrence deemed by the Director of Public prosecutions to be " nauseating and disgusting".
On finding out that some of his poems have been censored Lawrence commented:
"no doubt there was a rush of detectives, postmen and Home Office clerks to pick out the most lurid blossoms."
The Tattershall Castle was built by W. Gray & Co. in 1934 and was a vital passenger link across the Humber estuary ferrying passengers across the stretch of treacherous water between Hull and New Holland.
The paddle steamer made about eight trips a day carrying up to 1050 passengers in three compartments and on the deck.
Apart from her role as a passenger vessel, the Tattershall Castle had space on board for cars and livestock. Sheep, pigs, cattle and horses could all be tethered or penned for the 40-minute crossing.
More than 1,000,000 passengers were ferried during its 40 years of operation. During the war the Tattershall Castle was commandeered for a short period as a tethering vessel for barrage balloons on the Humber estuary. This role was very short lived. The transportation of the troops and vital munitions and supplies across the Humber proved far too important to allow the Tattershall Castle away from the estuary.
Wartime also saw the Tattershall Castle become the first civil vessel to carry radar. Her radar proved crucial on the foggy Humber. Just after the war during a routine crossing her radar picked up an unidentified floating object on the screen, on investigation the crew found part of one of Britain’s first oil rigs which had broken loose from its moorings during a storm.
After the war it carried on its business as a ferry until 1973 when urgent repair work was required for her boilers. This work was deemed too costly for her to carry on as a ferry and as a result the Tattershall Castle was retired from service.
Since 1981 the Tattershall Castle has been run as a bar & restaurant and has been considered one of the capital's best since then. The ship was refurbished in 2004 and again in 2009
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