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Forgot to post this last weekend, daffodils out in London on Victoria Embankment on 21st January.
SPRING IS HERE I TELL YOU!
Shell Mex Building on London's Victoria Embankment. Currently (mostly) occupied by Pearson / Penguin UK, where Allison worked 2004-2006. Part of the Adelphi Building is on the left, and part of the Savoy is on the right.
Photographs of crowds, officials and cyclists prior to the Tour de France, London 2014. The photographs include the Tour Cadets, a group fo young riders who race ahead of each stage of the Tour.
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.
Brightening up the day on the Victoria Embankment where the joggers go round and round and round.
Notes are for the London Chain.
Royal Marines on the River Trent
On 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.
The Golden Jubilee and Hungerford Bridges, towards the Victoria Embankment.
Hungerford Bridge was built in 1864, designed by Sir John Hawkshaw (1811-91), superseding the 1859 suspension bridge.
In 2002 two permanent walkways were opened; these were designed by Lifschutz Davidson and replaced a single dilapidated walkway. These were called the Golden Jubilee Bridges in honour of the then 50th anniverary of the coronation of Elizabeth II.
New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police.
The building opened as New Scotland Yard in 2016, before which it was the Curtis Green Building, and before that Whitehall Police Station.
Designed by William Curtis Green, and built 1935-40.
PS Tattershall Castle moored on the Embankment.
Built in 1934 as a passenger ferry on the River Humber between Kingston upon Hull and New Holland. It found service as a tether for barrage balloons during the Second World War. In 1981, after long service as a passenger and goods ferry, the ship was towed to London.
From Nottinghamshire's new Great War Memorial's roll of honour. I found Jesse FM Hind under 2016, his name familiar from his father's plantation of 184 poplars in memory of him and the other 183 of the Sherwood Foresters regiment 9th battalion who died in the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Lawrence A. Hind was Jesse FM Hind's paternal uncle and practised law in Nottingham. Horace Hind was a frame work knitter from Calverton who played cricket for Surrey Cricket Club during the war.
The pair of bronze Sphinx are Victorian and rather than guarding the needle lay facing towards it.
On 4 September 1917, during World War I, bombs from one of the first German air raids on London landed near the needle. In commemoration of this event, the damage is clearly visible in the form of shrapnel holes and gouges on the right-hand sphinx.
There were originally 7 gates to the City of London, all of which are now demolished: Aldersgate, Aldgate, Bishopsgate, Cripplegate, Ludgate, Moorgate and Newgate.
The sites of the "bars", the limits of the City boundaries outside (without) the walls where travellers paid their tolls, are still marked today with statues of dragons.
There are now thirteen dragons around the City of London. The dragon at Temple Bar was designed by C. B. Birch in 1880 and the two 1849 statues on Victoria Embankment which were, until 1963, mounted above the entrance to the Coal Exchange on Lower Thames Street were designed by the City Architect, J. B. Bunning.
The Dragons are -
Victoria Embankment boundary dragon. Western Boundary. Nr Temple Place Junct. North Side
Victoria Embankment boundary dragon. Western Boundary. Nr Temple Place Junct. South Side.
Temple Bar boundary dragon. Strand/Fleet Street.
Holborn boundary dragon. By Chancery Lane Tube Stn.
Holborn boundary dragon. By Chancery Lane Tube Stn.
Farringdon boundary dragon. Charterhouse Street/Farringdon Road.
Aldersgate boundary dragon. Baltic S W/ Goswell Road.
Moorgate boundary dragon. No longer there
Bishopsgate boundary dragon. Norton Folgate/ Worship St/ Shoreditch High St.
Aldgate boundary dragon. Aldgate High St./ Whitechapel High St.
Tower Hill boundary dragon. Byward St. / Tower Hill.
London Bridge boundary dragon. London Bridge South End. East.
London Bridge boundary dragon. London Bridge South End. West.
Blackfriars Bridge boundary dragon. Blackfriars Bridge South End.
There were originally 7 gates to the City of London, all of which are now demolished: Aldersgate, Aldgate, Bishopsgate, Cripplegate, Ludgate, Moorgate and Newgate.
The sites of the "bars", the limits of the City boundaries outside (without) the walls where travellers paid their tolls, are still marked today with statues of dragons.
There are now thirteen dragons around the City of London. The dragon at Temple Bar was designed by C. B. Birch in 1880 and the two 1849 statues on Victoria Embankment which were, until 1963, mounted above the entrance to the Coal Exchange on Lower Thames Street were designed by the City Architect, J. B. Bunning.
The Dragons are -
Victoria Embankment boundary dragon. Western Boundary. Nr Temple Place Junct. North Side
Victoria Embankment boundary dragon. Western Boundary. Nr Temple Place Junct. South Side.
Temple Bar boundary dragon. Strand/Fleet Street.
Holborn boundary dragon. By Chancery Lane Tube Stn.
Holborn boundary dragon. By Chancery Lane Tube Stn.
Farringdon boundary dragon. Charterhouse Street/Farringdon Road.
Aldersgate boundary dragon. Baltic S W/ Goswell Road.
Moorgate boundary dragon. No longer there
Bishopsgate boundary dragon. Norton Folgate/ Worship St/ Shoreditch High St.
Aldgate boundary dragon. Aldgate High St./ Whitechapel High St.
Tower Hill boundary dragon. Byward St. / Tower Hill.
London Bridge boundary dragon. London Bridge South End. East.
London Bridge boundary dragon. London Bridge South End. West.
Blackfriars Bridge boundary dragon. Blackfriars Bridge South End.
Another of shot from yesterday evenings Night shoot down on the Victoria Embankment.
I always love Wilford Suspension Bridge, it has alot of character and looks pretty impressive no matter which direction you approach it.
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