New Scotland Yard

Embankment - London

River Thames from the Victoria Embankment, London.

London Skyline as it is in 2022.

The Shard

The Shard, also referred to as the Shard of Glass, Shard London Bridge, and formerly London Bridge Tower, is a 72-storey skyscraper, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, in Southwark, London, that forms part of The Shard Quarter development. Standing 309.6 metres (1,016 feet) high, The Shard is the tallest building in the United Kingdom, and the seventh-tallest building in Europe. It is also the second-tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, after the concrete tower of the Emley Moor transmitting station. It replaced Southwark Towers, a 24-storey office block built on the site in 1975.

The Shard's construction began in March 2009; it was topped out on 30 March 2012 and inaugurated on 5 July 2012. Practical completion was achieved in November 2012. The tower's privately operated observation deck, The View from The Shard, was opened to the public on 1 February 2013. The glass-clad pyramidal tower has 72 habitable floors, with a viewing gallery and open-air observation deck on the 72nd floor, at a height of 244 metres (801 ft). The Shard was developed by Sellar Property Group on behalf of LBQ Ltd and is jointly owned by Sellar Property (5%) and the State of Qatar (95%). The Shard is managed by Real Estate Management (UK) Limited.

Seen behind HQS Wellington.

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

Virgin London Marathon 2016

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.

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DLP214 'The Original Tour' (Arriva London)

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on Victoria Embankment, London

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

Monument

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.

London transport 's RTL1166,a Park Royal bodied Leyland Titan is knocked over by a tram on route 56 along the Victoria Embankment on 11th September 1951 when the Wandsworth garage bus on route 170 towards Wandsworth was turning out of Temple Place to head west crossed over the east bound tramway and was hit. Several passengers were injured on the bus.

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.

Flood Levels at Trent

River Thames from Victoria Embankment (Temple to Waterloo Bridge)

the Shell Building (South Bank) to the left, the London Eye to the right.

A Rainbow seen from Temple Place over the Victoria Embankment London 24/10/10.

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

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"

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.