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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
Still to be seen in central London over 60 years since the last tram ran. This is what it looked like in action. The tram driver often had to wait at the top of the slope for the signal to change - difficult in the wet.
In the background is the Central School of Arts at which many of the LCC tramway publicity posters were designed.
Picture rendered in sepia by Picnik.
Jonckheere SHV
Volvo B12B
Year 2007
Date taken: 10/07/09
Location: Victoria Embankment, City of London, UK
Incredible Old photo my earliest ever old n new in my stream 151 years difference!..Somerset House was built between 1776-1796 designed by Sir William Chambers... A building of the same name was first built on the site more than two centuries earlier....I am unable to get in the same position due to the fact i am standing on a different bridge!...The first Waterloo Bridge was still a toll bridge when the top photo was taken,you can just make out one of the doric entrances to the river stairs,the bridge was demolished between 1934-1939 in way way or another!..The new bridge was oficially opened in 1945....Incredible to think the River Thames once brushed up against Somerset House,The Victoria Embankment's construction started in 1865. It was completed in 1870 under the direction of Joseph Bazalgette.....
Former Hull ferry "PS Tattershall Castle" now serves as a floating pub and venue on the Victoria Embankment, London, alongside the golden eagle of the RAF Memorial.
The Southwark Bridge spans the River Thames in London with The Shard in the background at the right. A bridge has stood here since 1819 and the Southwark bridge carries the least amount of traffic across the River Thames in London.
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.
Inga Abitova came fifteenth with 2:26:31 and Madai Perez came in seventeenth with 2:27:02
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.
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
This is a Valentine's postcard published in 1908, it shows the Victoria Embankment from Waterloo Bridge looking north west. From the left is the Hotel Cecil, Savoy Hotel, the Medical examination Hall and Waterloo Pier. The Savoy Hotel flies the Union Flag and the Stars and Stripes, the Medical Examination Hall flies the flag of the Red Cross. Between Monday 10th and Friday 14th June 1907 the eighth International Conference of the Red Cross Societies was held at the Examination Hall, the President of the conference was Field Marshall Lord Roberts VC. On the following Saturday the delegates attended a reception at Buckingham Palace, King Edward VII was the Patron of the Society and Queen Alexandra was President. Meanwhile two London County Council paddle steamers are tied up at Waterloo Pier, the "Olaf" and "Christopher Wren" are two of the thirty LCC boats which were sold by auction in 1909 after the LCC scheme failed in 1907. The Olaf was sold to an Italian company for use on Lake Lugano in northern Italy and "Christopher Wren" ended her days on the River Tigris in Mesopotamia.