Embankment Collection (page 9)

The Embankment, London, 1932
Photograph showing the Embankment, on the North bank of the River Thames, London, 1932. In the foreground is the sailing-ship Friendship

Offices of the London School Board, 1874
Engraving showing the exterior of the, then new, offices of the London School Board on the Thames Embankment, 1874

Black Businessman on Thames Embankment
A black businessman leans on the wall of the River Thames Embankment, London - close to the Albert Bridge. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Royal College of Surgeons and Physicians Hall, London, 1886
Engraving showing the exterior of the then-new examination hall of the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Physicians, Victoria Embankment, London, 1886

German Boys on a disused Railway, Berlin, 1948
Photograph showing two German boys playing on a railway track leading into the American Sector of West Berlin, November 1948

Embankment Shellmex
The Embankment below Shell-Mex House, one of the less attractive features of the London skyline

Cleopatras Needle, proposed position
A colour illustration of Cleopatras Needle in the proposed position at Westminister. The obelisk now stands on the Victoria Embankment

PRS Nimrod moored in London, 1909
Illustration showing Sir Ernest Shackleton, leader of the Nimrod Antarctic Expedition of 1908-09, and his wife (left foreground) welcoming visitors onto the deck of the Polar Research Ship Nimrod

Raising Cleopatras Needle
Cleopatras Needle, the Thames Embankment. The complicated structure that was used to lever the 180 ton obelisk into position

St Thomass Hospital
View of the newly opened buildings on the Southern Thames Embankment at Lambeth. St Thomass was relocated so the London Bridge terminus could be enlarged

OPEN AIR ACADEMY 1950S
A glimpse of the Open Air Academy, held every year in the Victoria Embankment Gardens, near Charing Cross, London. It is here that young artists exhibit paintings

Charing Cross Pier 1950S
A busy scene at Charing Cross Pier, Victoria Embankment, London, showing tourists enbarking on or alighting from boat trips up and down the River Thames, London

Electric light on the Thames Embankment
Illustration showing crowds admiring the electric lighting on the Thames Embankment, London in 1879. When the Victoria Embankment was opened in 1870 it was lit by cast iron gas lamps

Jablochkoffs electric light apparatus
Diagrams showing Jablochkoffs candle lamp. Paul Jablochkoff (1847-1894) was a Russian telegraph engineer who would rise to the post of director of telegraphs between Moscow and Kursk

Electric lighting in the city
Engravings from the Graphic showing the effect of electric street lighting on different parts of London. The main image showing the Royal Exchange and Mansion House, the top pictures show St

Embankment Boys
Two boys leaning against the Embankment wall, London

Somerset House 1748
The gardens of Somerset House - now replaced by the Embankment Gardens - beside the Thames : you can see Westminster Abbey and Hall in the far distance

Franco-Pruss / Bretonneux
Battle of Amiens during the Franco-Prussian War: the Prussians 44th regiment attacks a rail embankment at Villers Bretonneux

Cleos Needle / Lantern111
Cleopatras Needle on the Embankment by night

Vic Embankment / Lantern
A night view of Victoria Embankment

Cleos Needle / Lantern
A view along the river towards Embankment and Cleopatras Needle at night

Shelley / Chelsea
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY English poets house on the Chelsea Embankment: it contained a private theatre, where his play, The Cenci, was performed

London Shoeblack / 1901
A well-dressed gentleman stops to have his shoes polished while strolling along the Embankment

Thames / Embankment 1864
EMBANKMENT construction work, looking down the river from Westminster Bridge

Embankment / Fire Engine
EMBANKMENT A fire engine races along the Embankment

Cleopatra Needle / 1883
Cleopatras Needle on the Embankment, with six children and their dog

Cleopatra Needle / C1905
Cleopatras Needle on the Embankment

Chelsea Embankment 1905
Chelsea Embankment and Albert Bridge

Chelsea Embankment 1904
Chelsea Embankment on a grey day

Greenwich Railway
LONDON-GREENWICH RAILWAY Elevated on either arches or embankment throughout most of its length, the line passes over the south-eastern outskirts of London

Greenwich Railway 1836
LONDON-GREENWICH LINE Elevated on either arches or embankment throughout most of its length, the line passes St Jamess church, Bermondsey, as well as gardens

Kremlin 1764 / Machajew
A panorama of Moscow showing the Kremlin. Boating activity is depicted on the river while a cavalcade of pedestrians & equestrians take the air on the embankment opposite

Boer / Armoured Train / Begg
TROOP MOVEMENTS Soldiers travel in an armoured train along a rocky embankment near Ladysmith

Womens Rights / March
THE GREAT SUFFRAGIST PROCESSION - led by Lady Frances Balfour; Mrs Fawcett; Emily Davies; Dr Bryant; and 9, 996 others, from the Embankment to the Albert Hall

Franco-Pruss / Orleans
The Prussians attack a railway embankment at Orleans

Embankment Sphinx
A sphinx on the Embankment, London, one of a pair made to compliment Cleopatras Needle, which was was brought from Egypt to England in 1878. The Shell Mex clock is behind it

Embankment Westminster
The Thames Embankment at Westminster Stairs - at Westminster Bridge, with Charing Cross station looming in the distance

Thames Embankment 1877
Thames Embankment with St Pauls Cathedral and Southwark Bridge

Cannon Street Bridge
Thames Embankment (Victoria Embankment) South Side. With Westminster Bridge

Needle in Position / Graph
Cleopatras Needle finally in position on the Thames Embankment, London

Thames / Charing Cross
The river at Charing Cross, with the Embankment and Cleopatras Needle to the left, the Cleopatra swimming bath in the foreground

Underground railway works, Thames Embankment, London
Underground railway works on the Thames Embankment, Central London

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