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The Clyde steamer 'Queen Mary', now a pub and restaurant. moored on the Victoria Embankment of the river Thames in London, England.
Nikon D200
18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G VR
Reminds me of this poem by Wendy Cope
After the Lunch
On Waterloo Bridge where we said our goodbyes,
the weather conditions bring tears to my eyes.
I wipe them away with a black woolly glove
And try not to notice I've fallen in love
On Waterloo Bridge I am trying to think:
This is nothing. you're high on the charm and the drink.
But the juke-box inside me is playing a song
That says something different. And when was it wrong?
On Waterloo Bridge with the wind in my hair
I am tempted to skip. You're a fool. I don't care.
the head does its best but the heart is the boss-
I admit it before I am halfway across
I took this photos of a campaigner at The People's Climate March, a global event that took place on September 21, 2014, and involved hundreds of thousands of people in 166 countries taking part in over 2,800 events calling for urgent, coordinated action on climate change. The trigger for the coordinated events around the world was the Climate Summit at the United Nations headquarters in New York, taking place on September 23, when 120 world leaders will be trying to create a new global climate treaty.
This photo was taken at the London event, which involved around 40,000 people, who marched from Temple on Victoria Embankment to Parliament Square. It was a largely sunny day, a very friendly atmosphere, and a powerful demonstration of widespread concern about the climate that is an important antidote to the cynical and well-funded climate change denial lobby, and the general indifference of politicians, who sometimes make positive noises about the environment, but are more generally in bed with the polluters -- and, in addition, find themselves unable to tell the truth to their electorates: that we urgently need to make the environment a priority, and that doing so has to involve curbing our own destructive appetites.
See the People's Climate March website here: peoplesclimate.org/
See the People's Climate March London website here: www.campaigncc.org/climatemarchlondon
See my website here: www.andyworthington.co.uk/
For my most interesting photos, see: www.flickriver.com/photos/andyworthington/popular-interes...
I took this photo of a placard at The People's Climate March, a global event that took place on September 21, 2014, and involved hundreds of thousands of people in 166 countries taking part in over 2,800 events calling for urgent, coordinated action on climate change. The trigger for the coordinated events around the world was the Climate Summit at the United Nations headquarters in New York, taking place on September 23, when 120 world leaders will be trying to create a new global climate treaty.
This photo was taken at the London event, which involved around 40,000 people, who marched from Temple on Victoria Embankment to Parliament Square. It was a largely sunny day, a very friendly atmosphere, and a powerful demonstration of widespread concern about the climate that is an important antidote to the cynical and well-funded climate change denial lobby, and the general indifference of politicians, who sometimes make positive noises about the environment, but are more generally in bed with the polluters -- and, in addition, find themselves unable to tell the truth to their electorates: that we urgently need to make the environment a priority, and that doing so has to involve curbing our own destructive appetites.
See the People's Climate March website here: peoplesclimate.org/
See the People's Climate March London website here: www.campaigncc.org/climatemarchlondon
For more on fracking, see the Frack Off website: frack-off.org.uk/fracking-hell/
See my website here: www.andyworthington.co.uk/
For my most interesting photos, see: www.flickriver.com/photos/andyworthington/popular-interes...
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 Embankment was one of the busiest stretches on the entire London tram system. Soon after replacement by buses the service frequency fell, and a useful transport corridor was lost.
This is Victoria Embankment looking north from near the junction with Horse Guards Avenue. This is a wartime photograph showing the London Plane Trees which line Victoria Embankment with their lower trunks painted as to show up more clearly during the blackout.
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 Royal College of Ophthalmologists held its annual meeting in London in 2013.
Detail from The Battle of Britain Monument.
© Larry A. Donoso/Bower Media
Nearing the end of this London day out at the Victoria Embankment for my first look at the River Thames in 6 years.
fancy tricycle
Segregated cycle lane.
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"
Prelude to the T.U.C's "March for the Alternative", London, 26/03/2011
Continuing my coverage of the amazing half a million working people who joined together from all corners of the United Kingdom to march in protest against the vicious public sector job cuts and cuts to all Public Services planned by David Cameron's Conservative government.
I won't rant any further - read my previous "March for the Alternative" photo descriptions for that - so please just enjoy these images of the preparations for the march which started early in the morning along London's Victoria Embankment.
All photos © 2011 Pete Riches
Do not reproduce or reblog my images without my permission.
This is a pre WW1 photograph of Victoria Embankment and Cleopatra's Needle in the background. A Bow Street Police Constable working his beat whilst a double deck tramcar makes its way to Blackfriar's Bridge and South London.
26 March 2011. The TUC Anti-Cuts March for the Alternative on Victoria Embankment.
Behind the trees, The Temple gardens. (For lawyers, not priests.)
A pair of fire-breathing gryphons mark the boundaries of the old City of London.
In folklore, Gryphons guarded places where there was gold in great store. Although as we now know, in this case, it turned out to be vast piles of almost worthless sub-prime mortgages; and dubious deposits.
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.
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
Underneath Kingsway at this point is situated the now disused tram station. There was no direct link to the Underground station - passengers had to climb stairs and cross the road.
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
Louise Damen came 22nd with 2:30:00, a British olympic qualifying time, and her debut marathon.
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.
Madoka Ogi came 20th in 2:29:52.
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
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 Tuck's postcard from 1907 and posted in September 1911. It shows the original 1817 bridge by John Rennie, it was originally called the Strand bridge whilst being built but was then renamed in honour of the Duke of Wellington's victory at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. During the 1880s problems with subsidence of several of the piers was found and by the 1920s the bridge was reinforced and eventually closed and a temporary bridge was built just downstream. During the late 1930s and early 1940s the current bridge was built using mainly women workers, the bridge is sometimes called the "Ladies' Bridge". The building to the right on the north bank is Somerset House and just to the left of the bridge the entrance to the Kingsway Tram tunnel on Victoria Embankment can be seen.
In July 1875 the 'Floating Swimming Bath Company' opened its first floating swimming bath on the River Thames just upstream of Hungerford Bridge. It was built by the Thames Ironworks company at Blackwall and was 135 feet long and 25 feet wide, the depth of the water was from 3 feet to 7 feet at the deep end. The water came from the river and was filtered before being aerated by two fountains situated beneath the domes, it was also heated. The total amount of water used at any one time was 150,000 gallons, the bath could be filled in six hours, the entrance charge was one shilling. The bath was not used during the winter months and the owners applied and were granted permission by the Board of works to install refrigeration machinery and turn the bath into a 'Glaciarium' which was Victorian for a skating rink. The enterprise was very popular throughout the year but appears to have disappeared from the Thames during the mid 1880s.
HMS President (1918)’s former Royal Navy Flower Class sloop, HMS PRESIDENT moored on the River Thames, London by the Victoria Embankment. Friday 21st January 2011
HMS SAXIFRAGE, a 'Flower' class sloop was built for the Royal Navy by Lobnitz and Company Limited of Renfrew in 1917. She was built for convoy escort duty and became a Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve drill ship named HMS PRESIDENT in 1921. It was in 1922 that she was moored on the Thames Embankment in London and she has remained there ever since. While a drill ship all Naval Officers employed at the Admiralty in London were nominally appointed to HMS PRESIDENT. Since retiring from the senior service in 1988 she has passed through the hands of several owners
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This is the Waterloo Bridge, nearby the Victoria Embankment in London. It is backed by various landmarks (that I didn't get to see close up).
Think that is St Paul's Cathedral on the left, and thats the Gherkin on the right.
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
Patrick Mackau came in third with 2:05:45, the same time as second-placed Martin Lel, and making it a Kenyan one-two-three to go with Keitany and Kiplagat getting first and third in the women's.
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
The photograph shows the excavations for the new Ministry of Defence building in 1939. During the excavations parts of the Tudor Whitehall Palace were uncovered including Queen Mary's Steps which were part of the riverside Terrace of the Palace. This part of the Terrace was rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren in 1691, the steps are now preserved as a feature adjacent to the north east corner of the MOD building.
During the 1970s whilst on my beat one early turn I discovered that a tent had been erected by the steps, I roused the sleeping inhabitants who turned out to be two East German tourists. Having satisfied myself that they were not eavesdropping on the MOD communications, I sent them on their way.
This is how the steps look today: see link.
Ornate railings once surrounded the entrances to the tram station - these have now gone and the opening is covered with a steel grille. The ramp in Southampton Row still has railing s of a similar pattern.
This photograph was taken from Westminster Bridge looking west towards Bridge Street on the left. The photograph dates from the mid 1860s, the Bridge has just been completed (1862) and the Victoria Embankment is yet to be built. The corner plot subsequently occupied by the St. Stephen's Club (1875) and then by Portcullis House (2001), was occupied at the time of the photograph by Ginger's Hotel and a Wine Merchant; I wonder if the owner had red hair?
The parapet seen in the photograph had to be removed when the Victoria Embankment was finally completed in 1870.