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I appear to have missed most of the NHS campaigners on the TUC-organised "A Future That Works" march and rally in central London on Saturday October 20, 2012, although one exception was the Lewisham branch of "Keep our NHS public." It was a delight for me to meet up with these local campaigners, and to make plans for working together to resist the privatisation of the NHS, and, in particular, to resist plans to axe Lewisham's A&E (Accident & Emergency) department, and to replace it with a single A&E department, out at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, serving the 750,000 inhabitants of the London Boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley. In a local context, this is actually the single most shocking piece of news that I have heard since this despicable government of butchers came to power in May 2010.
For the campaign to save Lewisham Hospital's A&E department, see: www.savelewishamhospital.com/why-close-lewisham-ae/
For my archive of articles on the battle to save the NHS from the Tories, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/category/save-the-nhs/
Also see the campaigning group 38 Degrees' excellent initiative to make sure that the Clinical Commissioning Groups responsible for 80 percent of the NHS's budget are staffed by health professionals whose priority is to save the NHS from the full onslaught of privatisation: secure.38degrees.org.uk/pages/the_ccg_events_tool
For more on Andy Worthington, see: www.andyworthington.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
This is a Valentine & Co postcard dating from 1908 showing Whitehall looking south from the Admiralty. The view shows on the left the Office of Woods and Forests which was soon to be demolished to make way for the current Government building which has always been associated with Agriculture. The next building is the Old War Office which was completed in 1906, the street between the buildings is Whitehall Place which leads down to Northumberland Avenue and Victoria Embankment.
Bova Futura FHD
DAF
Year 2004
Date taken: 11/09/09
Location: Victoria Embankment, City of London, UK
From Germany
Launched in 1918 as HMS 'Saxifrage' before becoming HMS 'President' in 1922 when she was permanently moored on the River Thames as a Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (later Royal Naval Reserve) drill ship. She was moved to Chatham in 2016 with the hope of preserving her but plans fell through and she was abandoned there in 2022.
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
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
This is a photograph of the PS Tattershall Castle during her service as a passenger ferry between Kingston-upon-Hull and the New Holland pier in Lincolnshire. The paddle steamer was built in 1934 by William Gray & Co at Hartlepool, Co. Durham for the London and North Eastern Railway. She continued in service after nationalisation of the railways until 1973 when she was retired. The ferry service was made redundant in 1981 when the Humber Bridge was opened. She was towed to London where she first became a floating art gallery and then in 1982 a restaurant ship. She is still a restaurant ship moored on the Victoria Embankment but over the intervening years she has lost her paddle boxes and has been painted light blue. The photograph below was taken in the late 1970s when the Tattershall Castle was a floating art gallery.
Victoria Embankment Gardens London. The Adelphi buildings were designed by Colcutt & Hemp and opened in 1938. They are grade 2 listed.
London Gardens
January 2012
A foggy day on Victoria Embankment shown in this Judges' postcard circa 1910. It just about shows a London County Council Tram leaving Westminster Bridge and turning onto Victoria Embankment with the statue of Boadicea on the left. The original postcard was sepia which was even murkier.
This photograph dates from 4th July 1952 during "Last Tram week". The Tram shelter on the left was still in place during the 1970s
See link for a video of "The Elephant will never forget" which is a short documentary about the passing of the London Tram.
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
Plaxton Panther
Volvo B12B
Year 2004
Date taken: 10/06/09
Location: Victoria Embankment, City of London, 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
Victoria Embankment, Westminster, London, SW1. Palace of Westminster, (Houses of Parliament) the Speakers Residence in background. Westminster Bridge to the left, Parliament Square to the right.
Can anyone confirm the correct movie? Of course, it may not be from a movie and BB was just captured 'off duty'.
Spectators cheer the Tour de France leaders from a monument on London’s Victoria Embankment on Monday July 7 2014 with the London Eye and river Thames in the background.
The Royal College of Ophthalmologists held its annual meeting in London in 2013.
Detail from The Battle of Britain Monument.
© Larry A. Donoso/Bower Media
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 balloon for the Fire Brigades Union, with the powerful message, "We rescue people, not banks".
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...
This is a postcard published by W. Straker Ltd of Ludgate Hill circa 1932. It shows the view looking upstream from the Victoria Embankment approximately halfway between Waterloo Bridge and Blackfriars Bridge. The temporary emergency bridge alongside Waterloo Bridge can be seen which was in situ from 1925 until 1943. Behind the bridges is a very new Shell-Mex House, built on the footprint of the Cecil Hotel in 1930-31. Just downstream of the temporary bridge is the floating police station on Waterloo Pier, the pier for pleasure boats is on the upstream side of Waterloo Bridge.