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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.
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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...
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The caption on the postcard is not entirely correct, the building on the right is Scotland House which was built twelve years after New Scotland Yard to which it is attached by a bridge over what used to be called Derby Street. The street was blocked off by gates and was no longer accessible to the public
Not part of the event, but taken in passing
G943 FVX (Big Bus Co. DL38, 1989 Dennis Condor / Duple Metsec, ex China Motor Bus) passes KFF 367 (London Necrobus 'Ghost Bus Tour' bus, 1962 AEC Routemaster / Park Royal, formerly London Transport RM 1101)
Location Victoria Embankment.
In later years the tunnel would be heightened to take double decker cars.
Pamlin Prints - London Transport photograph.
From Wikipedia -
The Battle of Britain Monument in London is a sculpture on the Victoria Embankment overlooking the River Thames in central London, England which pays tribute to those who took part in the Battle of Britain during World War II. It was unveiled on 18 September 2005, the 65th anniversary of the Battle, by His Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall in the presence of many of the surviving airmen known collectively as "The Few", following the Royal Air Force Service of Thanksgiving and Rededication on Battle of Britain Sunday. This service is an annual event, taking place annually since 1943; the first service took place in St Paul's Cathedral and since has taken place in Westminster Abbey.
The monument was conceived by Bill Bond, founder of the Battle of Britain Historical Society, who was later awarded the MBE for his services to heritage. He was solely responsible for negotiating with the City of Westminster to secure the site of the monument, as well as appointing Donald Insall Associates as architects of the project. He also formed the fund-raising committee after raising over £250,000 through an appeal via the Daily Mail. The budget was £1.74 million which was funded in the main by private donations. Bill Bond appointed Lord Tebbit as chairman of the fundraising committee.
The monument utilises a panelled granite structure 25 metres long which was originally designed as a smoke outlet for underground trains when they were powered by steam engines. A walkway was cut obliquely through the middle of the structure, and is lined with panels of high relief sculpture in bronze depicting scenes from the Battle of Britain. The centrepiece is an approximately life sized sculpture of airmen scrambling for their aircraft during the battle. The outside of the monument is lined with bronze plaques listing all the airmen who took part in the Battle on the Allied side.
The sculptor of the monument is Paul Day and the architects are Donald Insall Associates. The statue was cast by Morris Singer, which is the oldest established fine art foundry in the world and has cast many prominent statues and sculptures in London and around the world, including the lions and fountains in Trafalgar Square.
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. This is a photo of a Fire Brigades Union banner.
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 the FBU, see: www.fbu.org.uk/
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...
A bar right alongside Embankment station. Closed by 2018, and since renamed as Circa the Club, a nightclub (with an entrance fee), so no longer a bar. However, it reopened in 2019 as Hungerford House Bar and Kitchen.
Address: Hungerford House, Victoria Embankment.
Former Name(s): Motion.
Owner: Novus Leisure (former).
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Beer in the Evening (Motion)
Today we had a sunny bright day here in London. mattomatto and I took our Nikon weekend photo walk along the River Thames starting from Embankment.
Photographs taken along the Victoria Embankment between Waterloo Bridge and Golden Jubilee Bridge during the Prudential Ride London Freecycle Event on Saturday 3rd August 2013. Roads through the captital were closed to traffic to allow cyclists of all ages
and abilities to cycle an 8 mile loop round central London. This is going to become an annual event. See www.prudentialridelondon.co.uk
Photograph taken at an altitude of Five metres, at 07:12am on Thursday 31st July 2014 fresh off a Newtwork Southeastern train from Bexleyheath to Waterloo East station. Walking from York Road, and Belvedere Road alongside the Jubilee Gardens, I then crossed over Westminster Bridge and along the Victoria Embankment where this frame was taken.
This guy was sound out, oblivious to the roar of the commuter traffic behind him, indifferent towards the beautiful view of the River Thames in front of him, only awakening when the foolish cameraman clicked his shutter, forgetting to use Nikon's 'quiet' mode...d'oh!
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"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
Hungerford Bridge and Golden Jubilee Bridges and River Thames.
View from the Victoria Embankment.
London Eye - it's been up now for 25 years!
City Cruises
The buildings on the left where the MOD building should be are in Whitehall Gardens. The photograph dates from just before WW1.
Lodon Transport Class C3 tram is working on either route 36 or 38 Abbey Wood to Victoria Embankment. The location is Victoria Embankment the railway bridge behind the tram is Charing Cross, also known as Hungerford Bridge. Adjacent to that bridge is a Bailey bridge it was built by the 36th Engineering Regiment. The bridge was built from the Festival of Britain side during the Summer of 1950, a mishap occured on June 20th when a section fell into the Thames, it was finally completed mid July. The steps to Northumberland Avenue were added in February 1951, the whole bridge was dismantled in October 1952.
My thanks to several contributors for the information for the caption
Temporary artwork by Tobias Rehberger, applied to HMS President, as part of the World War One centenary, a modern take on the optical distortion used during the war.(This replaces an earlier photo i uploaded, better light and taken from a cruise boat on the River Thames)
Passing Temple Underground Station to the Embankment for a view of the River Thames, before we got a tube train on the District Line one stop to Embankment, where we changed onto the Bakerloo Line to return to Marylebone.
Temple is a London Underground station located at Victoria Embankment in the City of Westminster, close to its boundary with the City of London. It is on the Circle and District lines between Embankment and Blackfriars, and is in fare zone 1.
The station was opened on 30 May 1870 with the name The Temple, from the Temple area in the vicinity of Temple Church, and from the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple, two of the four Inns of Court of London. The definite article in the name fell out of use quite early.
Closed on the day this photo was taken, Temple station building has a Walkabout bar occupying most of it.
Line(s) and Previous/Next Stations:
Mansion House < CIRCLE LINE > Embankment
Embankment < DISTRICT LINE > Mansion House
Former Name(s): The Temple.
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