#victoria embankment

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Victoria Embankment, London; 24.10.2020

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Lost London: Walking the Covent Garden Drainage Ditches

Part 3: The St Martin’s Parish Sewer

The last section of the walk along the drainage ditches of Covent Garden can begin with completing the fourth side of the Cock and Pye Ditch, by walking along the western end Shelton Street until the junction with Neal Street, then doubling back to Upper St Martin’s Lane. With this done, the walk then continues along St Martin’s Lane, following a noticeable downhill gradient as the route starts back towards the Thames.

With the sewer buried beneath the roads and buildings, and its course not well recorded, other sights make for more interest along this section. Off to the west of St Martins Lane is Cecil Court, a street of booksellers, many offering rare or unusual books; the oldest amongst these shops is Watkins Books, specialising in occult texts.

Further along St Martins Lane, this time to the east, is Brydges Place, possible the narrowest alley in London – it would definitely be difficult for two people to pass at its tightest point.

The route then turns down William IV Street, then Adelaide Street, passing the sculpture A Conversation With Oscar Wilde (checking to see if his cigarette has been stolen again), before arriving at the Strand. It is reckoned that the sewer (or ditch as it may have been then) crossed the Strand somewhere near where Charing Cross station stands today, though no records survive saying exactly where.

The walk continues downhill, quickly taking in the top end of Villiers Street, then York Place (formerly Of Alley, a story featured in a past post), then Buckingham Street. This terminates at York Watergate, marking where the banks of the Thames used to be, and where the St Martin’s parish sewer would have emptied into the river. With the construction of the Victoria Embankment, the parish sewer was joined to the interceptor sewer, so much like the Bloomsbury Ditch, there is no visible outfall.

My guidebook suggested ending the walk at the nearby Cleopatra’s Needle – the ancient Egyptian obelisk that actually bears the cartouches of Thutmose III and Ramses II. Some say that the exact geographical centre of London is a bench just besides the obelisk – certainly a quieter (and perhaps more atmospheric) location than the main rival for the title just beside Trafalgar Square…

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Las estaciones de metro podrían cerrar con poca antelación durante el período de duelo y los autobuses de Londres podrían desviarse

Las estaciones de metro podrían cerrar con poca antelación durante el período de duelo y los autobuses de Londres podrían desviarse

Transport for London (TfL) advirtió que las estaciones de metro en Londres pueden estar cerradas con poca antelación, ya que la gente acude en masa a presentar sus respetos en los parques reales y eventos conmemorativos tras la muerte de la Reina, también ha dicho que los autobuses podrían desviarse o detenerse antes de llegar a su destino. Actualmente, la nación está pasando por un período de…

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#Charing Cross #Embankment #estminster #funeral de la Reina #Green Park #Hyde Park Corner #Lancaster Gate #Marble Arch #St James&039;s Park #Tfl #Transport fo London #Victoria #Waterloo

[mea-gloria-fides]

The Victoria Embankment, London., 1935.

[modernism-in-metroland]

Staircase, New Carmelite House, Victoria Embankment

1936

H. O. Ellis & Clarke

Image from RIBApix

Modernist London

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 4 October 1936, Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists planned to march through a predominantly Jewish section of East London, instead the Battle of Cable Street occured. The fascists were met by over 100,000 local residents and workers who – insistent that 'They shall not pass!' – fought both the blackshirts and the police protecting them, forcing the march to be abandoned. Reg Weston who was there, described what happened when the fascists and their police escort met the crowds, including many women and dockworkers: "The fascists were assembling by the Royal Mint and police started to make baton charges, both foot and mounted, to try to clear a way for them to escort a march. They did not succeed. A barricade started to go up. A lorry was overturned, furniture was piled up, paving stones and a builders yard helped to complete the barrier. The police managed to clear the first, but found a second behind it and then a third. Marbles were thrown under the hooves of the police horses; volleys of bricks met every baton charge." Meanwhile, women stood at the windows of local tenements, hurling missiles at police, and heading downstairs to pursue officers who fled. Eventually, Weston explained: "the Metropolitan Police chief, who had been directing operations, told Sir Oswald it would be impossible for him to have his march through the East End to his proposed rally in Victoria Park. The uniformed Blackshirts formed up and marched. But they marched west not east. They went through the deserted City of London and ended up on the Embankment, where they just dispersed — defeated." Learn more about Cable Street, and the fight against Mosley in the 1940s in our podcast episodes 35-37: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e35-37-the-43-group/ https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2099006093617863/?type=3

[arabian-batboy]

If you're anywhere near London, please join the National March for Palestine on the 28th of October at 12 PM.

The march will start in Victoria Embankment and will continue toward the Parliament Square. There will be stewards to guide you, please do not divert from the designated route.

#palestine #palestinian #anti zionist #anti zionism #anti israeli #anti israel #gaza

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UK protests for Gaza taking place today, Saturday 28 October 2023

London, 12pm, Victoria Embankment

Manchester, 12pm, St Peters Square

Leeds, 12.00, Cavendish Road, Woodhouse

Bradford, 5pm, Centenary Square

Newcastle, 11.30am, Civic Centre

Essex, Chelmsford Shire Hall, 2pm

#uk politics #palestine #free palestine

[dame-de-pique]

Harry Moult - Winter's mood Victoria embankment, 1920s

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#Harry Moult #carbon print

[londiniumlundene]

Lost London: Walking the Covent Garden Drainage Ditches

With apologies for the slightly unappealing title – the watercourses that drained the area we now know as Covent Garden may not have ever been rivers or streams, hence it feels inappropriate to definitively categorise these as lost rivers. However, they definitely carried water to the Thames, may once have been streams that have been rechannelled, and still exist in a culverted form, with some small traces to be found at street level.

This is a walk in three parts, starting and finishing at the Thames, following first the Bloomsbury Ditch, followed by the Cock and Pye Ditch, and finally the St Martin’s parish sewer.

Part 1: The Bloomsbury Ditch

This drainage channel, also referred to in some sources as the Southampton Sewer, took water from the Cock and Pye Ditch and other surrounding marshy areas between Covent Garden and the Thames. Its outfall is no longer visible, having been channelled into the main sewer of the Victoria Embankment, which was completed in 1870. The closest one can get to it nowadays is Temple Place, the original line of the riverbank. A good place to start the walk is the rooftop section of Victoria Embankment Gardens, above Temple tube station; this has recently been transformed into an outdoor art space, but it also provides a good view out over the Thames.

Leaving the Thames behind (for now), the route of the Bloomsbury Ditch can be traced along Strand Lane, a dead-end road that cuts between buildings of King’s College London’s Strand campus. Strand Lane climbs steadily upwards, bringing the walker to the fake “Roman” baths (previously featured on this blog), which are supposedly managed by the National Trust, though have never seemed to be in particularly good condition on any of my previous visits. The (gated) steps up to Surrey Street by the baths show how much lower Strand Lane is, suggesting this was indeed once the drainage valley.

Doubling back and then around to Surrey Street (due to the aforementioned dead end and gated steps), passing the closed Aldwych station, and crossing the Strand by St Mary-le-Strand church, the best way forward here is Melbourne Place, as the ditch runs under Bush House, which formerly belonged to the BBC, and is now also inhabited by King’s College. The route then takes the walker across Aldwych, which was recently changed over to two-way traffic, the latest chapter in the saga of transport improvements associated with Aldwych and adjoining Kingsway.

Getting back on track, the course of the Bloomsbury Ditch can be picked up again along Drury Lane, which rises gradually uphill towards Covent Garden. Drury Lane is probably best known for its theatres and/or as the erstwhile residence of a muffin man, though this walk passes a few other places of interest, including the former burial ground of St John’s Church (now a children’s playground) and the Peabody Building, once the Lambert and Butler tobacco factory.

Sources are vague on where the Bloomsbury Ditch and Cock and Pye Ditch meet (some even treat them as the same ditch). However, a good place to stop with this leg of the walk would seem to be outside the Gillian Lynne Theatre, looking across to a dark alley that leads into the heart of Covent Garden…

#london #uk #england #walk #covent garden #ditch #drainage #watercourse #stream #bloomsbury #cock and pye #sewer #victoria embankment #embankment #temple #tube station #tube #gardens #art #strand #the strand #kings college #roman baths #aldwych #drury lane #theatre #theatres #lost river #history #lundene

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Le 23 avril 1968, Françoise Hardy pose pour les photographes dans les jardins de Victoria Embankment revêtue de la combinaison métallique que le couturier Paco Rabanne lui a confectionné pour sa 4ème résidence de 15 jours au Savoy. Une série de photographies qui fera à l'époque le tour du monde🍁🍁🍁

Via @françoise_hardy_collection on Instagram🍁

#60s icons #girlsofthesixties #françoise hardy #ye ye girl #singer songwriter #actress #🇫🇷

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Charles Ginner

Victoria Embankment Gardens. 1912

#charles ginner #cityscape #post impressionism #camden town group #french artist #tate collection

[aimeedaisies]

Court Circular 14th May, 2024

St James’s Palace

The Princess Royal, Patron, United Kingdom Sailing Academy, accompanied by Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, this afternoon held a Founders’ Club Luncheon at St James’s Palace.

Her Royal Highness, Chancellor, University of London, later attended the King’s Centre for Military Health Research Conference at Bush House, Aldwych, London WC2.

The Princess Royal, Patron, the Wellington Trust, accompanied by Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, this evening attended a Dinner onboard HMS WELLINGTON (1934) at Temple Stairs, Victoria Embankment, London WC2, to mark the Ship’s Ninetieth Anniversary and was received by Vice-Admiral Sir Adrian Johns (Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London).

#princess anne #princess royal #tim laurence #timothy laurence #court circular

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Victoria Embankment, when London had good public transport.

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Sans Souci Palace

Hi gouys! This is the Sans Souci Palace, located in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

This house is set to be in a 64x64 Lot. You will need all cc from The Jim, Felixandre, SYB, Marble Mortal, GSsims, etc. It is the usual content I use for my houses.

I made the third floor but it is not completed. In fact, the residence does not have this 3rd floor, but the roof looked weird w/o it.

Some history:

The Sans Souci Palace, located in Victoria, is undoubtedly one of the architectural landmarks not only of San Fernando but also of the northern region. This December marks 100 years since its official inauguration. Its history is intertwined with the history of the neighborhood, and its construction marked a turning point in the urban vision of the district's waterfront.

To briefly recount its history, we can go back to 1911 when the Alvear siblings, Carlos María, Josefina, and Elisa, married to Mercedes Elortondo, Matías Errázuriz, and Ernesto Bosch, respectively, traveled to Paris, France, in search of an architect to design their residences on the embankments of the area. The three couples chose the trendy architect of the time: René Sergent, considered the best in neoclassical and Versailles-style architecture.

The French architect also built the Bosch Palace in Buenos Aires, which serves as the official residence of the United States ambassador, and the Errázuriz Palace, now the Museum of Decorative Arts. The Sans Souci palace, owned by Carlos María de Alvear and his family, was the last of the three projects to be designed.

In 1914, the builders Eduardo Lanús and Pablo Hary laid the foundation stone of the Palace on the land inherited by Alvear's wife in Victoria, San Fernando. In December 1918, it was officially inaugurated.

Its four facades are made of imitation stone. The stairs are made of Paris marble, while the rest of the details and finishes, although they appear to be genuine, are imitations. The imitation marble was created by Swiss craftsmen from the Italian canton who were specialists in this technique. All the carpentry in the Sans Souci Palace was made of Slavonian oak. The doors were painted to imitate the wood grain, giving them identical marks.

The gardens, which initially covered 9 hectares, were designed by the French landscape architect Carlos Thays. During the construction of the Palace, Alvear tried to buy the neighboring property belonging to the Lanusse family with the intention of demolishing it and expanding his garden. However, the Lanusse family never agreed, so a huge wall was built. Thays not only organized the garden but also planted a group of trees to hide the large wall, making it appear as though the house extended further.

(From https://www.quepasaweb.com.ar/100-anos-palacio-sans-souci-san-fernando/)

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