Embankment Collection (page 3)

Leonard Henry Courtney - Radical British Politician
U=Nivocal. Leonard Henry Courtney (1832-1913) - Radical British Politician and exponent of Proportional Representation and Critic of Imperial Expansion. Date: 1900

Brochure for Seeing London by Tram
Round and about London by tram - North of the Thames. A London County Council guidebook, with an illustration of a tram travelling along the Embankment past Cleopatras Needle.. Date: circa 1930s

WOMAN / EMBANKMENT / LANTERN
A woman walking along the Embankment on a rainy night with a full moon 1910

Unilever House, Thames Embankment, London
circa 1930s

Building a Cofferdam, Thames Embankment Improvements 1866
Cutting of piles which formed a cofferdam, during the Thames Embankment improvements of 1866. Date: 1866

Homeless men sleeping on Southwark Bridge, London 1900
Homeless men sleeping rough in London. Date: 1900

Opening of the Victorian Embankment 1870
Opening of the Victorian Embankment, London, by the Prince of Wales and Princess Louise, with crowds watching. Date: 13 July 1870

Thames Embankment Railway, construction 1870
Works on the Thames Embankment Railway, from Blackfriars Bridge. Date: 1870

Construction Thames Embankment near Arunel Street 1866
Metropolitan improvements of Thames Embankment which extends from Waterloo Bridge to the east side of the Temple Gardens, a length of 1970 ft

Progress on Thames Embankment 1866
Progress on Thames Embankment, near Arundel Street, London. Date: 1866

BATTLE AMIENS 1870
Battle of Amiens during the Franco-Prussian War: the Prussians 44th regiment attacks a rail embankment at Villers Bretonneux Date: 23 December 1870

London - Embankment - 1867
A section of the Thames Embankment, showing; 1. subway, 2. low level sewer, 3. Metropolitan and District Railway and 4. Pneumatic Railway. Date: 1867

FOG, EMBANKMENT
The Thames Embankment, London, on a foggy evening - the lamplighter just lighting the gas lamps Date: circa 1896

LAMBETH HIGH TIDE 1860
High-tide (and consequential flood) at Lambeth Palace. Date: 1860

VIC EMBANKMENT / LANTERN
A night view of Victoria Embankment Date: 1910

Embankment - Lantern Slide
A view along the river towards Embankment and Cleopatras Needle at night Date: 1910

Progress on Thames Embankment 1865
View from Westminster Bridge, of the progress on Thames Embankment. Date: 1865

HMS Buzzard (a Nymphe-class composite screw sloop) - Royal Navy Training Ship at Blackfriars on the Thames in 1906. In 1904 she was converted to a drill ship for the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve at

A man walks his dog along an embankment in Blaenavon, Wales
A man walks his his dog along a waterside embankment above a council estate in Blaenavon, South Wales. The Sunday Times Date: 1988

Flo from Pimlico taking a stroll along the Victoria Embankment, London - gaining some admiring glances from rich Gentlemen both young and old! Date: 1906

Belgiums Memorial in gratitude to Great Britain for service to the country during WW1 - Embankment, London. Date: 1932

Sphinx - Thames Embankment - Base of Cleopatras Needle
Sphinx - River Thames Embankment - Base of Cleopatras Needle. Westminster and Hungerford Bridge can be seen in the background. Date: circa 1930s

The Thames Embankment with Cleopatras Needle - London. The red granite obelisk was brought to London from Egypt in 1878 - its base is flanked by two bronze statues of the sphinx. Date: 1912

Bronze Sphinx on the Thames Embankment, London
One of a pair of faux-Egyptian sphinxes, designed by the English architect George John Vulliamy at the foot of Cleopatras needle on the Thames Embankment. They were brought to London in 1878

A View of Blackfriars, attributed to Francis Smith
A View of Blackfriars and Saint Pauls from Somerset Gardens, attributed to Francis Smith

Bronze statue of Boudicca and Big Ben - Westminster
Queen of the Iceni - This bronze statue of Boadicea (Boudicca), at the foot of Westminster Bridge, London, was sculpted in 1850 by Thomas Thornycroft. The iconic shape of Big Ben looms behind

London - Putney - The Wharf and Embankment - Photograph taken from Putney Bridge Date: circa 1910s

London Tram 1952
The last week in service for the poor old Route 36 tram, from Abbey Wood to Embankment via the Old Kent Road and Blackfriars. Londons very last tram ran on 7 July 1952. Date: July 1952

Anglo-Belgian war memorial unveiled, 1920
The unveiling of the Anglo-Belgian War Memorial on the Victoria Embankment, London, on 12th October 1920, the fifth anniversary of the shooting of Edith Cavell in Brussels

Suffrage Demonstration N. U. W. S. S
Suffrage Demonstration N.U.W.S.S. Leaders of the N.U.W.S.S at the Suffrage Demonstration and March from the Embankment of the Albert Hall, 13th June 1908. Mrs. Fawcett, Lady Frances Balfour, Mrs

Turnout of vehicles from Lambeth HQ, with the River Thames and Houses of Parliament in the background. Date: circa 1937

A suffragette advertising a votes for women march from Victoria Embankment. Date: 1910s

Coronation coach 1937 for George VI
The Coronation Coach carrying King George VI and Queen Elizabeth turns on to the Embankment with Westminster Abbey in the background

Fireboat Massey Shaw returning after Dunkirk, WW2
Crowds on the Albert Embankment greeting the returning London Fire Brigade fireboat Massey Shaw after it took part in the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied forces

Salvation Army Shelter, Blackfriars Road, London
A crowd of vagrants awaiting admission to the Salvation Army shelter for men (known as The Embankment) at 115B Blackfriars Road, London

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

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