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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.
A view of one of the 2 sphinxes which flank Cleopatra's Needle on Victoria Embankment in London. The sphinxes designed by English architect George John Vulliamy are cast in bronze and bear hieroglyphic inscriptions that say netjer nefer men-kheper-re di ankh, which translates as "the good god, Thuthmosis III given life". On 4 September 1917, during World War I, a bomb from a German air raid landed near the needle. In commemoration of this event, the damage remains unrepaired to this day and is clearly visible in the form of shrapnel holes and gouges on this phinx as can be seen in this photo.
Here's elephant #197, "Haathini", by Penelope Patrick. It's on the northern bank of the River Thames, beside Cleopatra's Needle on Victoria Embankment. Keeping the sphinxes company (or should the plural of sphinx be "sphinxen"?). Tiz and I liked this one a lot, not least because of the tiny ladybird near the artist's signature and the blue butterflies on its back.
PS: You'd be amazed how many people jog along here...
Artist's Inspiration - from the auction website: "The Palm trees are symbolic of the diminishing vegetation due to man's necessity for land. The space above the palms represents the corridors that the elephants need to connect their habitats. The Butterflies mean freedom."
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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.
Taken from the top of the Switch House extension (now called the Blavatnik Building) to the Tate Modern.
View includes Blackfriars Bridge and Blackfriars Railway Bridge, Unilever House, Victoria Embankment, and St Bride's Church.
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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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudica this is one of my favourite statues in London, and one which i'm lucky enough to see almost every day.
The Victoria Embankment
Old picture taken 1991 with a small borrowed Pentax PC35AF. Scanned from a paper photo.
"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
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Building at 100 Victoria Embankment, London
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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.
Battle of Britain Monument, Victoria Embankment.
Conceived by Bill Bond, sculpted by Paul Day.
Cast by Morris Singer Ltd, the oldest established fine art foundry in the world which also cast the lions Trafalgar Square.
Korean War memorial. There are several memorials along the Embankment. This one is poignant as my uncle was involved in the Navy out there and I remember my mother in tears as she was sure my father would be called up, it being only five years since he had returned from the Middle East where he spent the war. He poo-pooed this, correctly, but I had just learned to read and the headline of WAR is still memorable.
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.
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.