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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
The Battle of Britain Monument on the Victoria Embankment in the City of Westminster, London, England. The monument commemorates individuals who participated in the Battle of Britain during World War II.
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
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A memorial donated by the people of Belgium to the British people, for their grateful help during the First World War of 1914 - 1918.
The Belgium War Memorial 1914 - 1918 is opposite Cleopatra's Needle.
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
I forget what piqued this group of Cub Scouts' interest but it's probably the usual child's fascination with water.
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 the part of Victoria Embankment Gardens behind the National Liberal Club and Whitehall Court with Hungerford Bridge in the background. In 1947 the London County Council organised the first exhibition in Victoria Embankment Gardens just east of Hungerford Bridge, the venue was moved to the gardens west of Hungerford Bridge in 1956. The Exhibition was open to all professional and amateur artists and was seen as a poor man's Summer Exhibition, the Royal Academy exhibition opened a few days before this one. All the paintings were for sale as in the Summer exhibition. The event seems to have ended with the 1966 exhibition.
Photo by Maxwell Revenell Green.
River Thames from the South Bank in London.
We were looking for the Christmas Market that was around here.
Turns out that the South Bank Centre's Winter Festival starts from under the Hungerford Bridge. Was also some fun fair rides there as well!
Westminster sunset
Norman Shaw Building North and South. And Territorial Policing Headquarters
This is Montagu House the home of The Dukes of Buccleuch which was situated next to Richmond Terrace and fronted onto Whitehall. It was built in 1733 and completely rebuilt between 1853-1859. The building ended its days as the headquarters of The Ministry of Labour and was demolished in 1949/50 to make way for the MOD.
A detail from Paul Day's bronze memorial to the 'Few' on the Embankment. Day's style is pretty distinctive; he also gave us the 'Meeting Place' at St Pancras station.
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
Another angle of Trent Bridge as seen from the Meadow Lane Lock, taken this evening (20th December) on the way home from work.
A London County Council paddle steamer hugs the north bank of the River Thames heading downstream to its next stop at Charing Cross pier. This is probably 1906, the second year of the LCC's river bus service which failed the following year. The photograph which was published by the Valentine company was taken from a flat in Whitehall Court and shows Hungerford Bridge, the old Waterloo Bridge, St. Paul's Cathedral and an Industrial wasteland on the south bank. The large 'chimney' in the centre is a shot tower which survived until the early 1960s and was an integral part of the Festival of Britain site.
A 1920s view of Westminster Bridge and Victoria Embankment showing LCC Trams and the cab rank outside the St.Stephen's Club.
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 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.
Foto feta prop del London Eye, mirant cap al riu Tàmesi, a la dreta queda el pont de Westminster i a l'esquerra el London Eye.
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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
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
On evening of Sunday 14th September 1997, 2 stuntmen crossed the River Thames in London, both walking across the same 1,000 feet steel wire, 150 feet about the Thames.
Jade Kindar-Martin aged 23 from American and Didier Pasquette, aged 29 from France, took half-an-hour to cross the one-inch wide wire without a safety net. When they met in the middle Kindar-Martin stepped over Pasquette who sat sideways on the wire.
They were the first to cross the Thames by tightrope from opposite ends simultaneously.
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
Sir Robert Juckes Clifton, 9th Baronet (1826-1869)
Robert was the only son of Sir Juckes Juckes-Clifton, 8th Baronet, and his second wife Marianne. He was educated at Eton and entered Christ Church College, Oxford, in 1844. He was fond of gambling and horse racing. He suceeded his father to the baronetcy in 1852. His debts forced him to spend a number of years living in France.
Sir Robert returned to Clifton in 1861 and stood as an Independent candidate at the parliamentary election at Nottingham against Lord Lincoln, son of the Duke of Newcastle. He won a resounding victory, and stood again in 1865. The election campaign was heated and occasionally violent, but Sir Robert was once again elected. Allegations of bribery against both successful candidates were later upheld, and another election was held in 1866, at which Sir Robert did not stand.
In 1867 coal was found on the Clifton estate, and the following year building work began on the Clifton Colliery at Wilford, opened in 1870. Sir Robert was also responsible for the construction of the Wilford toll bridge, also opened in 1870.
In November 1868 Sir Robert was once again elected as an Independent parliamentary candidate for Nottingham. He served until his premature death of typhoid fever on 30 May 1869. Over 20,000 people watched the funeral cortege, attesting to the popularity of Sir Robert and his wife, Lady Bruce, who was known for her charity work.
The baronetcy became extinct upon his death, and the Clifton estates passed to his cousin's son Henry Robert Markham.
He married in 1863 Geraldine Isabella (d 1913), daughter of Colonel John O'Meara. They had no children.
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