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A routemaster on a birthday trip. However, was obviously at start / end of shift as driver and conductor sat in the passenger saloon smoking!
London Marathon 25 April 2010. Smith isn't looking great, but she ovetakes Ozaki in the final mile and a half.
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.
"Two Temple Place, known for many years as Astor House, is a building situated near Victoria Embankment in central London.
"On 28 October 2011, Two Temple Place opened as a public gallery. It is a London venue specifically to showcase publicly owned art from regional collections in the United Kingdom, and is only open to the public during exhibitions.
"The building was built by John Loughborough Pearson for William Waldorf Astor, in 1895. Originally known as the Astor Estate Office, it had a residential flat above the offices for Viscount Astor's use (Pevsner). It consists of two floors and a lower ground floor and is designed to be in the Early Elizabethan style and is built entirely of Portland stone. It has splendid carvings on the exterior stonework by Nathaniel Hitch. and above the machicolated parapets is a weather vane, representing the caravel Santa Maria in which Columbus discovered America.
"The intention was to symbolize the connection of the path of discovery of his ancestor John Jacob Astor and the linking of United States and Europe. It was executed by J. Starkie Gardner, the English metal worker, who was responsible for all metalwork inside and outside the building."
Source: Wikipedia
Looking southwards from Albert Embankment in Vauxhall, to Chelsea on the West Bank of the Thames and Battersea on the east.
One from the archives again, a rather beautiful Grey Wagtail ~ Motacilla cinerea down on the Victoria Embankment, Nottingham back in September last year. I would see this same bird every day on the way to and from work
A dragon statue which marks the western boundary of the City of London on the Victoria Embankment.
The plaque on the plinth reads:
"CITY OF LONDON
These dragons represent a constituent part of the
armorial bearings of the City of London and have been
erected to indicate the western boundary of the city.
This commemorative plaque was unveiled by
THE RT. HON. THE LORD MAYOR SIR RALPH EDGAR PERRING
on 16th October, 1963
Dudley Gordon Mills Esq.
Chairman Streets Committee
Francis John Forty O.B.E. B.Sc.
City Engineer"
The RAF Memorial, Victoria Embankment
Per Ardua Ad Astra -Through Struggles to the Stars is the motto of the Royal Air Force
The golden eagle is made from captured enemy artillery