Embankment Collection (page 5)

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

Workman feeding pigeons on the Victoria Embankment, London. Date: 1950s

Victoria Embankemnt. Big Ben and Houses of Parliament Date: 1960s

Men Chop Firewood at Morning Post Embankment Home
Men chop firewood at a home on Londons Embankment sponsored by the Morning Post newspaper during a period of severe unemployment. Date: circa 1920

The Rhine Bridge and Embankment, Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Showing the Hotel Rheineck Date: 1919

The Thames Embankment, London, London
The Thames Embankment, London, County of London, England. Date: 1920s

The Embankment, London, England
The Embankment, London, County of London, England. Date: 1905

ILN front cover - laying foundation stone, Thames Embankment
Front cover of The Illustrated London News with an engraving of showing the ceremony of laying the first stone of the Thames Embankment, in front of Whitehall Stairs in July 1864

ILN front cover - start of Thames Embankment works
Front cover of The Illustrated London News depicting the commencement of the Thames Embankment works near Westminster Bridge in February 1864. Date: 1864

Suffrage Demonstration N. U. W. S.s 1908
A souvenir of the Womens Suffrage March and Mass Meeting at the Albert Hall, Saturday, June 13, 1908. Gives details of the march from Embankment to the Albert Hall

N. U. W. S.s Suffrage Saturday June 1908
N.U.W.S.S Suffrage Saturday June 1908. Handbill issued by the N.U.W.S.S, promoting the march and demonstration on 13th June 1908, from Embankment to the Albert Hall. Led by Mrs

Suffragette Womens Coronation Procession. A Stereoscopic view of the Australian Contingent in the Womens Coronation Procession June 17th 1911, captioned, Great Suffragette Demonstration in London

New headquarters of the Metropolitan Police, London
The new headquarters of the Metropolitan Police on the Thames Embankment, London. Date: 1890

Blitz in London -- demonstrating deluge set, WW2
Blitz in London -- as part of a war weapons week, a firefighter on the Embankment in Central London, 20 May 1941, demonstrates the deluge set

Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London, viewed from the Embankment in front of Lambeth Palace, March 1966. Date: 1966

Great Food Demonstration on Embankment, London, WW1
A procession organised by the National Union of Railwaymen who marched to Hyde Park in order to demonstrate against rising food prices during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Blitz in London -- fire at Albert Embankment, WW2
Blitz in London -- aerial view of fire damage caused by an air raid, Tucks India Rubber Works, Albert Embankment, 17 April 1941. Date: 1941

In railway embankment, looking toward Vimy Ridge. 313870 Gunner Vivian John Cummings, Born 31.07.1875, 3Rd Canadian Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force

Demolition of Northumberland House
The demolition of Northumberland House, Charing Cross, making way for Northumberland Avenue between Trafalgar Square and the Embankment. Date: 1875

Scene on the River Thames, London. Date: 20th century

Exhibition for garden and flower lovers
A Great Exhibition for garden and flower lovers: a birds eye view of the Horticultural Exhibition in Chelsea Hospital Gardens, London, with Chelsea Embankment and the River Thames in the foreground

Cleopatras Needle in silhouette
Cleopatras Needle situated on the Victoria Embankment, London, watched over by the sphinx. The artist describes it rather poignantly as That Sad Stone. Date: 1926

The Embankment artist in silhouette
An artist on the Victoria Embankment, London takes a portrait of a small girl. Date: 1926

The Royal Air Force Memorial in silhouette
The Royal Air Force memorial, on the Embankment, London, captured in silhouette. Built in 1923, it is situated on the Victoria Embankment close to Cleopatras Needle

Searchlights over Thames Embankment, London, WW1
Searchlights over the Thames Embankment near Charing Cross, London, keeping watch for enemy aircraft in the early days of the First World War. Cleopatras Needle can be seen on the right. Date: 1914

Lunchtime scene on the Embankment, London, WW1
Rank Outsiders. A lunchtime scene on the Embankment, London, at the start of the First World War. Young men who could be joining up to fight stand idly watching through the railings as the Inns of

Railway construction, Western Front, France, WW1
Broad gauge railway construction by British soldiers on the Western Front in France during World War One. They are seen here building an embankment. Date: circa 1916

The South Embankment in London
The South Embankment of the River Thames in London after rain with two doubledecker buses crossing a bridge in the background Date: 1930s

Thames Embankment
The Embankment, showing the Savoy Hotel and Cleopatras Needle. Date: 1895

Whitehall Stairs
The landing-place at Whitehall, before the construction of the Embankment. Date: early 19th century

Millbank Street
Millbank before the construction of the Embankment. Date: 19th century

Men sleeping rough on the embankment, London, 1910
Men who have not been able to get into a night shelter are sleeping rough on a bench on the embankment in London. A flashlight reveals their sleeping forms bent at awkward angles in an effort to find

London Looking North
General view across the River Thames, from the the new Shell Building, looking northwards. The Art Deco Shell Mex building, Victoria Embankment, is centre left of the picture. Date: 1963

Sleeping Rough
A tramp (or just a homeless young man) sleeping rough on the Embankment, London, England. Date: early 1930s

SPOOKY EMBANKMENT
A strangely eerie London Embankment, with the silhouette of Cleopatras Needle standing among the row of street lamps. Date: early 1930s

Tramps under the Sphynx
Down-and-out men sleeping under the sphynx at the base of Cleopatras Needle on the Victoria Embankment, London, England. Date: early 1930s

Tramps on the Embankment
Two old tramps sitting together at night on the Embankment, London, England. Date: early 1930s

Birds Lunchtime
No, this woman is not stroking a yucca plant, she is actually feeding some hungry birds in the Embankment Gardens, central London! Date: 1930s

Head of a Sphinx
The head of a bronze Sphinx, on the Embankment, London, one of a pair made to compliment Cleopatras Needle, which was was brought from Egypt to England in 1878. Date: early 1930s

The Embankment, London on wet night with Policeman and Trams
A truly superb postcard photograph of The Embankment, London on wet night. The lights cast a strange eerie glow on the scene, magnified through the windows of a row of parked trams

Hotel Cecil and Embankment, London - at night. Date: circa 1910s

Victoria Embankment at night - London, England
A view along the Victoria Embankment at night - London, England. Date: circa 1910s

South Africa - Law Courts on the Esplanade, Durban Date: circa 1909

The Embankment on a wet night, London
The Thames Embankment on a wet night, London Date: circa 1910s

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