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I think that this is 1907 the last year of the LCC Steamboat service on the Thames. The photograph shows the view looking north with from the left, New Scotland Yard, Whitehall Court, Cecil Hotel and Charing Cross Railway Bridge. Passengers disembark from an LCC Steamer and an Interesting LCC timetable sign at bottom left.
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
Taken from the top of the Switch House extension (now called the Blavatnik Building) to the Tate Modern.
View includes Southbank Tower, One Blackfriars ("The Vase"), 65 Hopton Street, Blackfriars Bridge, BT Tower, Temple Church, Royal Courts of Justice, Unilever House, and 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
Victoria Embankment Garden.
This public park is part of the chain of open spaces
along Victoria Embankment, designed by Sir
Joseph Bazelgette and opened in 1865.
The park provides a welcome retreat from busy
Embankment and bustling Villiers Street and is
popular with office workers as a pleasant space to
eat lunch and relax. There are grass areas with
impressive bedding displays throughout the year.
A bandstand has a programme of events
throughout the summer and visitors to the
gardens can sit in deckchairs to enjoy.
The historical Watergate is in one corner of the
park, built in 1626 as an entrance to the Thames
for the Duke of Buckingham. The gate is still in its
original position, but since its creation the Thames
water line has moved and the gate is some 100
metres from the water. There are various statues
in the park including that of John Stuart Mill, Lady
Henry Somerset , a statue of girl with begging
bowl, a William Howard Forster statue, and a
memorial to the poet Robert Burns.
Dos Santos came fourth in 2:06:34.
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.
London Marathon 25 April 2010. Bai Xue and Ozaki battling it out. Bai Xue came in seventh, but Ozaki slipped to ninth behing Smith.
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 Satue 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.
An undivided back postcard printed for Stengel & Company in Dresden. It was posted to Vienna in 1902 but it may date from several years earlier. Work on cleaning the balustrade of the bridge appears to be taking place bottom right. There is no sign of the Tramlines which would appear in late 1906 and there is no sign of Scotland House which would soon be built as an overflow building for New Scotland Yard.
London Air Ambulance G-EHMS lands in Victoria Embankment Gardens.
G-EHMS is a McDonnell Douglas MD 902 Explorer
Although it's always -- always -- unpleasant to have to look at the smug face of Michael Gove, the self-appointed butcher of Britain's state schools, these shirts put together by the teachers' union NASUWT (National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers) made me laugh. Photo taken on the TUC-organised "A Future That Works" march and rally in central London on Saturday October 20, 2012.
For NASUWT, see: www.nasuwt.org.uk/
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
Hungerford Bridge and Golden Jubilee Bridges and River Thames.
View from the Victoria Embankment.
London Eye - it's been up now for 25 years!
A style bar (and restaurant) under Waterloo Bridge.
Address: 8 Victoria Embankment.
Owner: (website).
Links:
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 HRH the Prince of Wales and HRH the Duchess of Cornwall in the presence of many of the surviving airmen known collectively as "The Few".
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.
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
Westminster Bridge and St. Thomas's Hospital in background.
Cannon Row Police Station, Headquarters of 'A' or Whitehall Division of the Metropolitan Police, opened its doors for 'business' in 1902 and finally closed in 1992. It was then amalagmated with Bow Street Police Station and reinvented as Charing Cross Police Station and housed in the old Charing Cross Hospital near Trafalgar Square.
The end of a significant amount of Metropolitan Police history and the police service in general when both famous police stations closed.
More About Cannon Row Police Station
Cannon Row Police Officers Hyde Park 1926
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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