Embankment Collection (page 4)

Chelsea Embankment
Walking past the pier on Chelsea Embankment in London. Battersea Power Station can be seen in the background

Rail Strike / Crowded Tram
RAIL STRIKE An overcrowded tram on the Thames Embankment, packed with Londoners struggling to get home on a day with no trains or tubes running

Chelsea Pensioners outside the Hospital - The Old Gate. Date: 1905

In-Pensioners Long Ward - Royal Hospital, Chelsea - Panelling and cubicles of oak. Date: circa 1910s

Alameda de Michaelsen, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Alameda de Michaelsen (Michaelsen Walk), Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. Date: circa 1910

Switzerland - Switchback turn on the Sustenstrasse, built between 1938-1945 - in the Cantons of Bern & Uri. Date: circa 1940s

Railings of the Summer Garden, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Railings of the Summer Garden, which occupies an island between the Fontanka, Moika, and the Swan Canal in Saint Petersburg, Russia - painting by Georgi Kreskentevich Lukomski (1884-?)

The embankment south-east of Westminster Bridge
The scene from the embankment south-east of Westminster Bridge. The Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, Lambeth Pier in foreground, London. Date: 1950s

Aswan High Dam across the Nile, Egypt
Aswan High Dam across the Nile at Aswan built between 1898 and 1902 to control the rivers cycle of flooding the river banks which are used as farmland - south of Egypt. Date: circa 1920

Rio Del La Plata Argentina. Vintage car park on the embankment Date: 1980

The Chelsea Hospital, Chelsea Embankment, London. Memorial to those killed at the Battle of Chillianwala, fought during the Second Anglo-Sikh War in the Chillianwala region of Punjab (Mandi Bahauddin)

Homeless men by J O Brien
No-goods or might-be-goods? The Faces of the Night. Victims of our social system or of their own faults? Men of the under-world Character sketches of homeless men to be seen each night sleeping in

London Eye going up. Picture taken from London Embankment Date: 2000

London Eye going up - under the wheel
London Eye going up, view from under the wheel. Picture taken from London Embankment Date: 2000

Foot of Northumberland Street, Strand, London, now being Filled up by the New Embankment (1865). Moore, James 1819 - 1883. Date: 1865

New Embankment, Hungerford, Thames, London Morning
New Embankment, Hungerford, Thames, London (Morning) (1865). Moore, James 1819 - 1883. Date: 1865

The Houses of Parliament from the Albert Embankment
The Houses of Parliament at dusk, viewed from the Albert Embankment on the south bank of the River Thames. Date: 1905

London, England - Queen Victorias Diamond Jubilee - Procession through London... Part of Box 177 Boswell collection - Round about London

Cleopatras needle at dusk - Needle in mid distance, lamps lit along embankment. Part of Box 34 Boswell Collection - London Streets. Date: circa 1890s

London, England - Cleopatras Needle - View of needle on Embankment in Winter.. Part of Box 23 Boswell Collection. A Day trip to London.Cleopatras Needle is the popular name for each of three Ancient

WW1 - London in wartime searchlights over the River Thames Date: circa 1917

Itkutsk, Siberia, Russia - Moscow Triumphal Arch
Itkutsk, Siberia, Russia - seen from the Angara River, a tributary of the Yenisei. In the centre of the picture is The Moscow Triumphal Arch

London - The Thames Embankment by moonlight Date: circa 1910s

The Old Water Gate, Thames Embankment, London and part-view of the House in which Peter the Great (of Russia) lived whilst resident in the capital. Date: circa 1910s

Caricature of Harry Paulton, actor and dramatist
Caricature of Harry Paulton (1842-1917), actor and dramatist. Seen here outside the Avenue Theatre, London, in cloak and hat -- Manteaux Noirs; or, a Tale of the Embankment

De Keysers Royal Hotel, London. Sir Polydore de Keyser (18321898) - a lawyer and the first Roman Catholic since the Reformation to be elected Lord Mayor of London (October 1887 to November 1888)

Pavement Artist
A pavement artist on the Thames Embankment, London, attracts a crowd of curious spectators. Date: circa 1905

Rail Crash Near Belper
Near Belper, Derbyshire, a goods train goes off the rails at a bridge, the wagons go down the embankment and pile up on the riverbed. Date: November 1859

Rail Crash Kentish Town
On the Hampstead Junction Railway, a train goes off the rails and down the embankment at Kentish Town in north London. Date: 1861

Charing X Covered Way
Originally, access from the Embankment to the station is via a covered way leading up onto the platforms, but this will later be closed. Date: 1864

Embankment in Winter
EMBANKMENT The Embankment in winter Date: 1905

Embankment / Book Cover
EMBANKMENT Silhouetted figures on the Embankment Date: circa 1910?

St Petersburg / Waterfront
The waterfront : quay of Vasili Ostrov (Island). Date: 1910

London / Embankment
Thames Embankment and Cleopatras Needle on a winter day. In the background carriages line the road. Date: 1890

Transporting the obelisk: Cleopatras needle erected, London
Breaking up the " Cleopatra" so that the Needle may be erected on the Thames Embankment, London. Date: 6th July 1878

Transporting the obelisk: positioning Cleopatras needle
Waiting for the tide to facilitate the positioning of Cleopatras Needle on the Embankment, London. Date: 30th May 1878

Portraits of campaigners for womens rights
Portraits of various campaigners for womens rights, who led a Suffragist Procession on 13 June 1908 from the Embankment to the Albert Hall: Charlotte Despard (Leader of the Womens Freedom League)

Rail embankment
Building an embankment for a railway line Date: 1881

Thames Embankment and Cleopatras Needle, London
The Thames Embankment and Cleopatras Needle, London. circa 1870s

A Warning to Women by G Watson Mill
Promotional postcard for A Warning to Women by C. Watson Mill. First produced Lyceum Theatre, Eccles, 28th May and Theatre Royal, Stratford, 23rd July 1906

Hotel Cecil, London from River Thames
A bird s-eye view of the Hotel Cecil, London from River Thames. The Cecil was largely demolished in Autumn 1930, and Shell Mex House was built on the site. Date: circa 1910s

Works of Metropolitan District Railway on Thames Embankment
Works of the Metropolitan District Railway on the Thames Embankment at Westminster, London, in 1869. Date: 1969

The RAF Memorial - Embankment, London. Unveiled in 1923 - designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield (the main monument) and William Reid Dick (the eagle). Date: circa 1923

London - Cecil and Savoy Hotels from across the River Thames Date: 1929

London at night - Two outcasts sit on a bench - Embankment. Date: circa 1920s

London at Night - Cleopatras Needle and Victoria Embankment. The red granite obelisk was brought to London from Egypt in 1878 - its base is flanked by two bronze statues of the sphinx. Date: 1932

Design for the new Headquarters of the London Fire Brigade - Albert Embankment, Lambeth, London. Opened by King George VI on 21st July 1937. Date: 1937

Taking a rest on the Victoria ERmbankment, London. Date: 1950s

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