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'Police Public Call Posts' were located in Public Places for the use of either members of the Police or for members of the Public to contact the Police. Their use was discontinued during the early 1960's...
Massive Australian theme bar which takes up most of Temple station building. Since renamed as Salsa!
Address: Temple Station, Temple Place.
Former Name(s): Shoeless Joe's.
Owner: Regent Inns [Walkabout] (former).
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Defending champion Liliya Shobukhova came in second in 2:20:15, setting a Russian record.
Virgin London Marathon, 17 April 2011. Taken from 24 and a half miles, at the (western) junction of Victoria Embankment and Temple Place, very close to the Walkabout.
Setra S315 GT HD
Mercedes Benz
Year 2005
Date taken: 11/09/09
Location: Victoria Embankment, City of London, UK
A pub/bar on the Thames just by the Golden Jubilee footbridges (and Hungerford rail bridge). (More recent photo of it.)
Address: Kings Reach, Victoria Embankment.
Owner: TCG Acquisitions (website); Tattershall Castle Group (former); Punch Taverns [Spirit Group] (former).
To go with my previous upload, here is another of the Callinan Coaches (UK) quartet of 2014-registered Van Hools.
YJ14CEF is seen passing along the Victoria Embankment on 3rd July 2016. Evidently it is on hire to Stansted Citylink for their non-stop A50 service between Victoria (Bullied Way) and Stansted Airport.
Even though the service is non-stop and started as an unlicensed express service on 23rd May 2016, Braddell Ltd t/a Stansted Citylink applied to Transport for London for a London Service Permit to cover it, due to come into force on 1st August 2016. I'm not sure of the benefit of an LSP if the service has no stops in London - the original Stansted Citylink 767 service also had an LSP.
The LSP application had alternative inbound and outbound routes, but Victoria Embankment did not appear in any of them.
In the event the LSP application was withdrawn; LSP Bulletin 356 of 12th August 2016 said;
"The application to operate the above service under a London Service Permit has been withdrawn by the operator. Route A50 has been operating since May 2016 as an unlicensed express service but was withdrawn on 5 August 2016. Following this withdrawal, a free shuttle service will continue to
operate for approximately 5-6 weeks".
DSM train leading overall winner Lorena Wiebes in blue jersey with Belgian Champ Lotte Kopecky behind
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 <a href="http://www.prudentialridelondon.co.uk"
Headquarters of London's Metropolitan Police until 1967. This is the Victoria Embankment entrance, the opposite end to the famous Derby Gate entrance & exit (see note).
Cannon Row Police Station (Alpha Delta, 'A' or Whitehall Division) was under the arch and to the left (see note).
The white paint (see note) on the base of the railings would date this picture during WWII. Street furniture during the war was edged in white paint in order to stand out during the blackout.
Note, no guns or weighted down equipment belts, kevlar jackets, stab proof vests, machine guns or tasers that we see carried by today's police officers. How times have changed!
More About Cannon Row Police Station
Crucial historical information is supplied by Leonard Bentley (ex Cannon Row Police Station Officer).
Shelly Woods, Amanda McGrory (far right) and the pack with 1.5 miles to go. McGrory, who won Paris teh weekend before, outsprinted Woods on the Mall to win, both being given the same time of 1:46:31.
Virgin London Marathon, 17 April 2011. Taken from 24 and a half miles, at the (western) junction of Victoria Embankment and Temple Place, very close to the Walkabout.
This is a Leon & Levy postcard published in about 1905 showing Victoria Embankment looking downstream towards Blackfriars Bridge. Moored alongside the Embankment is HMS Buzzard, a Nymphe Class sloop built in 1887 at Sheerness. HMS Buzzard was a screw and sail ship that spent its service on the North America and Caribbean stations until 1904 when it was paid off and became the London Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Drill ship. In April 1911 it was renamed HMS President and survived until 1921 when it was sold to Dutch shipbreakers.
An Excel Series postcard from the early 1930s showing the view from Hungerford Bridge looking towards Victoria Embankment, Shell Mex House and the Savoy Hotel. Also shown is the Charing Cross Pier, the ship in the foreground is the Barquentine 'Emma Ernest', she was on the Lloyd's Register from 1876 until 1934. For several years in the early 1930s she was moored at Charing Cross Pier as the Headquarters of "The Honourable Company of Friendly Adventurers", the company was owned and run by a Mrs. Ruth Knowles née Mitchell who was an American national and married to a Master at Tonbridge School, Kent. Mrs. Knowles was the sister of General Billy Mitchell often considered to be the father of the US Air Force and who had the WW2 American bomber the North American B-25 Mitchell named after him. It may have been partly a charitable concern because its intent was to improve international relations by enabling children of various countries to become acquainted, like an early exchange visits scheme. Whilst moored at Charing Cross Pier the ship was known as "The Friend Ship" and was rented out as a party or other events venue, whether this was to provide income for Mrs. Knowles or her company, I have not been able to ascertain. Apparently during the war she found herself in Yugoslavia and joined the Chetniks as a dispatch rider, it is believed that she was the inspiration for the Ingrid Bergman character in the film "The Yellow Rolls Royce".
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.
For GWUK. Portcullis House, Only completed in 2001, it stands opposite the Houses of Parliament and houses offices for individual MPs and Select Committees.
Originaly launched as HMS Saxifrage in 1918 as a Flower Class anti-submarine Q-ship. She was renamed HMS President in 1922.
this is a Statue of Michael Faraday on Savoy Place in London.
He was an English chemist and physicist (or natural philosopher, in terminology of that time).
It stands outside the Institution of Engineering and Technology.
Built as HMS Wellington in 1934 moored on the Victoria Embankment, London SW1. She is the last surviving Grimbsy Class of Sloops. Served with the RN as a convoy escort until 1947 having been on duty in the Pacific and North Atlantic. Moved to Victoria Embankment in 1948 as a Library and Conference Centre and HQ of the Honourable Company of Master Mariners.
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Victoria Embankment north, EC4
One of a pair of dragons that was orginally mounted on the Coal Exchange in Lower Thames Street. The eleven other guardian dragons are smaller versions of this design.
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Just went one stop on the District Line from Temple to Embankment Underground Station, before switching to the Bakerloo Line to go back to Marylebone.
Embankment is a London Underground station in the City of Westminster, known by various names during its history. It is served by the Circle, District, Northern and Bakerloo lines. On the Bakerloo line and the Charing Cross branch of the Northern line, the station is between Waterloo and Charing Cross stations; on the Circle and District lines, it is between Westminster and Temple and is in Travelcard Zone 1. The station has two entrances, one on Victoria Embankment and the other on Villiers Street. The station is adjacent to Victoria Embankment Gardens and is close to Charing Cross station, Embankment Pier, Hungerford Bridge, Cleopatra's Needle, the Royal Air Force Memorial, the Savoy Chapel and Savoy Hotel and the Playhouse and New Players Theatres.
The station is in two parts: sub-surface platforms opened on 30 May 1870 by the District Railway (DR) as part of the company's extension of the Inner Circle eastwards from Westminster to Blackfriars and deep-level platforms opened in 1906 by the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway (BS&WR) and 6 April 1914 by the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway (CCE&HR). A variety of underground and main line services have operated over the sub-surface tracks and the CCE&HR part of the station was reconstructed in the 1920s.
Tube train on the Bakerloo Line
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.
26 March 2011. The TUC Anti-Cuts March for the Alternative on Victoria Embankment.
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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
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
Virgin London Marathon, 17 April 2011. David Weir in Heinz Frei's slipstream with 1.5 miles to go. At the finish Weir outsprinted Frei on the Mall to take his fifth London win in 1:30:05. Frei was second in 1:30:07.
Taken from 24 and a half miles, at the (western) junction of Victoria Embankment and Temple Place, very close to the Walkabout.
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."