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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
The London Needle aka Cleopatra's Needle was erected on the Victoria Embankment in the City of Westminster, London, in 1878. Today, worn down by 130 years of polluted air and the vibrations of the nearby traffic, the obelisk is in dire need of a repair.
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 young woman's placard is another reference to ex-Tory Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell and his outburst towards a policeman last month, who he described as a "pleb." Mitchell clung onto his job until Friday October 19, 2012, when he resigned. This photo was taken the day after his resignation on the TUC-organised "A Future That Works" march and rally in central London.
See: www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/oct/19/andrew-mitchell-r...
Also see: www.flickr.com/photos/andyworthington/8106746338/in/photo...
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
24. Villiers Street was built by Nicholas Bourbon in the 1670s on the site of York House. At the time, the Thames River was higher and the street ended where the water gate of the mansion used to sit. By the 1855, the construction of the Victoria Embankment claimed the land from the River and pushed the water back 50m from the end of the street. Rudyard Kipling, renowned English poet used to live at apartment 43 in the late 19th century and wrote about this street :
"From my desk I could look out of my window through the fanlight of Gatti’s Music-Hall entrance, across the street, almost on to its stage. The Charing Cross trains rumbled through my dreams on one side, the boom of the Strand on the other, while, before my windows, Father Thames under the Shot Tower walked up and down with his traffic."
It is now a busy street where thousands of pedestrians transit everyday from and to the tube station.
— at Embankment 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
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
Leyland AEC Routemaster RM1979 (1964)
This was in service as a closed roof Routemaster. Now it is partially open top
Edna Kipligat came third with 02:20:46.
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.
A well worn subject taken from an unusual viewpoint, this is a post WW2 photograph which shows the scaffolding surrounding the chamber of the House of Commons which was destroyed by enemy action during the war. To the left of the Victoria Tower is the faint outline of St. John's in Smith Square, nicknamed the 'Upturned Foot Stool' now a deconsecrated church which is used as a recital hall. Best of all, there are no high rise buildings, Portcullis House or the Millennium Wheel.
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 structure on the left is a Tram shelter in the late 1970s. This shelter has haunted me for some time, did I imagine it, did I really see it, now here's the proof in a old negative I found recently. It survived for about thirty years after the last Tram in June 1952.
Irina Mikitenko came in seventh with 2:24:24.
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 of the 'caravan' - the sponsors vehincles throwing out promotional gifts to the crowd This precedes the Tour de France cyclists. Taken on the Victoria Embankment, London on 7th July 2014.
Was a great cyclist before his doping ban. I remember him riding the Tour with a broken collarbone when he was one of the favourites for that years race
I waited a while to get this shot but I still didn't get as many light trails as I would've liked. Nevetheless I still like it so here you go.
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
A London Transport Tram passing the memorial to the designer and builder of the Embankment, Joseph Bazalgette.
I think this must be 1952, there is a bus on the embankment as well as a Tram, there was a transition period before the Trams finally went in the summer of 1952. The building of the MOD has some way to go and was only completed in 1959.
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
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
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What a miserable cold Bank Holiday Monday we had today.... It was difficult to get enthused about going out to take picures at all, but I finally made it down to the Victoria Embankment late afternoon to take a few shots of "Cleopatra's Needle".....staying with the ancient monument theme for another day....
Photograph taken at 10:34am on May 10th 2012 of the EDF Energy London Eye from the South Bank, next to the Jubilee Gardens where London's most loved and visited tourist attraction resides. London, England.
Nikon D7000 55mm 1/2500s f/5.0 iso200
Nikkor AF-S 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G VR. UV filter. Nikon GP-1 GPS.
LATITUDE: N 51d 30m 11.91s
LONGITUDE: W 0d 7m 9.47s
ALTITUDE: 26.0m
Sigma 10-20mm f/3.5-5.6 DX EC HSM
Nikkor AF-S DX 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G VR
Nikkor AF-S DX 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G VR.
Police post on Victoria Embankment, opposite Inner Temple Gardens.
"There were initially two types of London police box. The smaller version was known as a police post, and contained just a telephone and a first aid kit, topped by a light. Around 70 of these were installed in the Metropolitan Police District. The larger version was the conventional police box...A few of the original police posts still remain on the streets in London, most noticeably at Piccadilly Circus."
Source: www.policeboxes.com/pboxhist.htm
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Shell Mex House on the Strand in London was built in 1930-1 in an Art Deco style. The building was for many years the London headquarters of Shell-Mex and BP Ltd for whom it was originally built.
During the Second World War, the building became home to the Ministry of Supply which co-ordinated supply of equipment to the national armed forces. It was also the home of the "Petroleum Board" which handled the distribution and rationing of petroleum products during the war. It was badly damaged by a bomb in 1940. The building reverted to Shell-Mex and BP Ltd on 1 July 1948 with a number of floors remaining occupied by the Ministry of Aviation (latterly the Board of Trade, Civil Aviation Division) until the mid-1970s.
Today, simply known as 80 Strand, most of its floors are occupied by companies belonging to Pearson PLC, who use it as their registered office, including Pearson Learning Technologies, Mergermarket (part of Financial Times), Penguin Books, Dorling Kindersley, Michael Joseph, Rough Guides and Pearson Global English.
A green plaque was affixed to the wall just inside the gate in March 2008, proclaiming: The Royal Air Force was formed and had its first headquarters here in the former Hotel Cecil 1 April 1918. Below it is a brass plate stating: "This plaque was unveiled by the Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Sir Glenn Torpy KCB CBE DSO ADC to mark the 90th anniversary of the formation of the Royal Air Force"