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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.
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
The London Eye is a giant Ferris wheel on the South Bank of the River Thames in London. Also known as the Millennium Wheel, it has also been called by its owners the British Airways London Eye, the Merlin Entertainments London Eye, and the EDF Energy London Eye. As of mid-January 2015, it has been known as the Coca-Cola London Eye, following an agreement signed in September 2014.
The structure is 443 feet (135 m) tall and the wheel has a diameter of 394 feet (120 m). When erected in 1999 it was the world's tallest Ferris wheel. Its height was surpassed by the 520 feet (158 m) tall Star of Nanchang in 2006, the 541 feet (165 m) tall Singapore Flyer in 2008, and the 550 feet (168 m) High Roller (Las Vegas) in 2014. Supported by an A-frame on one side only, unlike the taller Nanchang and Singapore wheels, the Eye is described by its operators as "the world's tallest cantilevered observation wheel".
It is Europe's tallest Ferris wheel, and offered the highest public viewing point in London until it was superseded by the 804 feet (245 m) observation deck on the 72nd floor of The Shard, which opened to the public on 1 February 2013. It is the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom with over 3.75 million visitors annually, and has made many appearances in popular culture.
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 photo is of a RMT (Rail Maritime and Transport) union banner, adapted to pay tribute to the RMT's general secretary Bob Crow, a tenacious opponent of the government's austerity measures, who, sadly, died in March at the age of 52.
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 RMT, see: www.rmt.org.uk/home/
For a Daily Mirror tribute to Bob Crow, see: www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bob-crow-irritated-everyone...
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...
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."
Best viewed in large When most people heat the words "Big Ben" they immediately conjure up an image of the striking Victorian Gothic structure of the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster (the Houses of Parliament). Let's clear up a common misconception first; technically speaking, the name "Big Ben" does not refer to the famous tower, nor to the four huge clock faces of this London landmark; instead, it refers to the largest of the five bells inside the clock tower, whose chimes are such a familiar sound to listeners to BBC radio over the years.
The tower was begun following the disastrous fire which destroyed the old Palace of Westminster in 1834. Charles Barry was given the contract to rebuild the Palace, and his designs included a clock tower.
The Tower
The clock tower of the Palace of Westminster took 13 years to build, and was completed in 1856. The tower is 316 feet high. The spire that rises above the belfry is built with an iron frame, and it is this frame which supports the weight of the bells. A staircase rises up inside the tower, and a climb is rewarded by excellent views from the belfry level. Several small rooms are built into the lower part of the tower, including a small prison cell.
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
Ex Tilling ST bus used as a tree pruner in Kingsway, causing difficulties for a passing STL on route 77.
Westminster tube station, Michael Hopkins and Partners, Westminster, Portcullis House, Parliamentary Offices, Bridge Street, Victoria Embankment
The River Thames is a major river flowing through southern England. While it is best known because its lower reaches flow through central London, the river flows alongside several other towns and cities, including Oxford, Reading, Henley-on-Thames, Windsor, Kingston upon Thames and Richmond.
The river gives its name to several geographical and political entities including the Thames Valley, a region of England centred around the river between Oxford and west London, the Thames Gateway, the area centred around the tidal Thames, and the Thames Estuary to the east of London
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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