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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
Armed Forces Day Nottingham 2On 29 June 2013 Nottingham was the host to the National Armed Forces Day 2013 Event.
The day started with marches from the Nottingham Castle to the Old Market Square where a Drumhead Ceremony took place with a fly over bu the Red Arrows.
Throughout the city were events to commemorate and pay tribute to the British Armed Forces. Of these events was the displays and events on the Victoria Embankment where you could met and see all the branches of the armed forces.
These photographs are dedicated to all those brave men and women throughout our history who have served our country proudly.
We thank you for your bravery, your service and dedication. Best Wishes to you all. WE are proud of you, Our Heroes.013
across the river: London County Hall (1922)
"The Royal Air Force Memorial is a 1923 military memorial on the Victoria Embankment in central London, dedicated to the memory of the casualties of the Royal Air Force in World War I (and, by extension, all subsequent conflicts). It is sited near Cleopatra's Needle, between the north-bank ends of Charing Cross Bridge and Westminster Bridge, and directly to the east of the main Ministry of Defence building on Whitehall. It was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield, and William Reid Dick sculpted the eagle on top (drawn from the RAF's badge)."
London
November 1987
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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 <a href="http://www.prudentialridelondon.co.uk"
One of the two original dragon sculptures which were mounted above the entrance to the Coal Exchange on Lower Thames Street, designed by the City Architect, J.B. Bunning, and made by London founder, Dewer, in 1849. They were preserved when the Coal Exchange was demolished in 1963 and re-erected on six foot high plinths of Portland stone at the western boundary of the City, by Temple Gardens on Victoria Embankment, in October 1963.
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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 <a href="http://www.prudentialridelondon.co.uk"
Victoria Embankment, Westminster, London
For those of you who are unfamiliar with Roman history, then first shame on you, and second, by 60 A.D. the Romans (or as I would say, "we" ) were well in control of England and Wales. Not that those nations actually existed at the time, but geographically, I mean.
One tribe of Britons which existed in modern day Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire was the Iceni. They were nominally our allies though in reality they were collaborators who knew which side their bread was buttered on.
The King of the Iceni was named Prasutagus. He ruled with his queen whose name was really Boudicca (with one or two c's, take your choice) but who was known for a few hundred years (including when a statue was built) as Boadicea. In his will, Prasutagus divided his kingdom between his wife, and the Roman Emperor. Who, at the time, was Nero.
The Roman governor at the time was Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, who was not satisfied with that will. He therefore appropriated everything of the Iceni and treated the Queen and her daughters in a totally inappropriate manner. Even Nero felt that he went way too far.
Seriously, how bad do you have to be before Nero of all people starts calling out your behaviour?
In any case, the Iceni joined forces with all of the other British tribes to rebel against Roman rule.
Rome was coming close to the height of our powers at that time, so you can file that one under "a really bad idea". However for a time the Britons had some successes using what we would now call guerrilla warfare. Their mistake was to try to take on we Romans in a set piece battle. We had about 10,000 troops, they had about 230,000 troops. We lost about 400 men. They lost about 80,000. In essence, it was a bad day somewhere in the Midlands (nobody is quite sure where the battle occurred) for the Britons who then returned to being under Roman rule.
While she had her backside handed to her on the battlefield, Boudicca became a symbol of British identity during the Victorian era. Queen Victoria herself was quite often identified with her character. As a result, the Queen and her consort Prince Albert were enthusiastic about creating a statue honouring Boudicca, Naturally, this would have a crossover effect of honouring of Queen Victoria too, of course.
The task fell to Thomas Thorneycroft, who had already made an equestrian statue of Queen Victoria for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Unfortunately Thorneycroft died before he could create anything more than a full-size model. There was no money to have the model cast in bronze. There was also no place to put the statue even if it had been cast. In 1894 someone got it into their head to look for Boudicca's grave on the north side of Parliament Hill. No one is quite sure where or how she died, but there is absolutely no reason to believe that she came back to London of all places. If she didn't die in the battle, it would have made a lot more sense for her to scarper home to the north of London where she would have supporters and sanctuary. Thorneycroft's son suggested that the statue be placed at the alleged (but empty) burial site when there was finally enough money to cast it. To get around the latter problem, a committee was formed to raise the necessary funds.
Even then, the statue wasn't installed until 1902. It sat pretty much where the supposed grave of Boudicca was. However with time commercial interests took precedence and rather than being a monument honouring a mistreated collaborator who (justifiably, it must be said) rebelled, the significance of the statue is buried behind a cheap and tacky tourist stall which sells T-shirts and fridge magnets. In all probability, very few people notice the statue of the lady and her 2 daughters behind the stall, or have any understanding of what it means.
The statue's formal name is "Boudicca And Her Daughters".
This is another bench in the memorial gardens on the embankment by the river where I went for a walk today. Beautiful autumn sunshine made for a lovely time. That's Queen Victoria in the background!
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RNLI at the Tower Lifeboat Pier on the River Thames. Confusingly the pier is not by the Tower but is the former Waterloo Police Pier which the RNLI moved to in 2006, renaming the Waterloo pier in the process.
Royal National Lifeboat Station Thames
August 2011
Cleopatra's Needle en Londres es uno de los tres obeliscos egipcios de nombre similar y está ubicado en la ciudad de Westminster, en el Victoria Embankment, cerca de los puentes Golden Jubilee. Está cerca de la estación de metro Embankment.
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
Buckingham Gate., Victoria Embankment; built in 1626, architect Balthazar Gerbier, for George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham. It formed the Thames watergate entrance to York House, which Buckingham had acquired. This was the northern bank of the Thames until the building of the Victoria Embankment. The street behind is Buckingham Street, built after York House was demolished.
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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 <a href="http://www.prudentialridelondon.co.uk"
Just went one stop on the District Line from Temple to Embankment Underground Station, before switching to the Bakerloo Line to go back to Marylebone.
Embankment is a London Underground station in the City of Westminster, known by various names during its history. It is served by the Circle, District, Northern and Bakerloo lines. On the Bakerloo line and the Charing Cross branch of the Northern line, the station is between Waterloo and Charing Cross stations; on the Circle and District lines, it is between Westminster and Temple and is in Travelcard Zone 1. The station has two entrances, one on Victoria Embankment and the other on Villiers Street. The station is adjacent to Victoria Embankment Gardens and is close to Charing Cross station, Embankment Pier, Hungerford Bridge, Cleopatra's Needle, the Royal Air Force Memorial, the Savoy Chapel and Savoy Hotel and the Playhouse and New Players Theatres.
The station is in two parts: sub-surface platforms opened on 30 May 1870 by the District Railway (DR) as part of the company's extension of the Inner Circle eastwards from Westminster to Blackfriars and deep-level platforms opened in 1906 by the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway (BS&WR) and 6 April 1914 by the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway (CCE&HR). A variety of underground and main line services have operated over the sub-surface tracks and the CCE&HR part of the station was reconstructed in the 1920s.
Roundel on the District Line
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
Took a walk along the Victoria Embankment on the way home this evening with the camera. For sometime now there have been a pair of Ruddy Shelduck's (Tadorna ferruginea) taken up residence on that stretch of the Trent. I've been cycling past them most mornings, and thought it was about time the new 7DII came out of the bag.
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"
Helping the guys from Press TV with their report!
Helpful students during last weeks' NUS student demo, jollying things up for Iran's Press TV on the Victoria Embankment...
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A pre WW1 photograph of the Hotel Metropole with the cab rank to service the hotel in the middle of the road. The Hotel was taken over by the Government during WW1 and has recently been refurbished and now is The Corinthia Hotel.
The Victoria Embankment as seen from the Southbank, 1900's and 2007. Notice the transformation of Waterloo Bridge.
Another look at Cleopatra's Needle, Victoria Embankment.
It was when the handle of "Unite the Kingdom" protestors were still around London.
Grade I listed building
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TQ 3080 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER VICTORIA EMBANKMENT, SW1 73/54 24.2.58 Cleopatra's Needle G.V. I Obelisk and sphinxes. The ancient Egyptian obelisk dating from the reign of Thothmes III and one of 2 originally erected in Heliopolis, brought to London as a gift in 1877 (by sea in a specially designed iron sea-going casing), the setting on the Embankment wall with the two huge bronze sphinxes designed by G F Vulliamy. The obelisk of pink granite. The base and water steps of granite. The sphinxes cast in bronze. Stepped platform with flanking sphinxes and granite pedestal to obelisk.
Listing NGR: TQ3054380516
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" n.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 <a href="http://www.prudentialridelondon.co.uk"