The Thames Embankment was built as part of the London Main Drainage (1859-1875) by the Metropolitan Board of Works, a pioneering Victorian civil engineering...
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Victoria Embankment is part of the Thames Embankment (the other section is the Chelsea Embankment), a road and river-walk along the north bank of the River...
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Albert Embankment is part of the river bank on the south side of the River Thames in Central London. It stretches approximately one mile (1.6 km) northward...
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Chelsea Embankment is part of the Thames Embankment, a road and walkway along the north bank of the River Thames in central London, England. The western...
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Since the Thames has a large tidal amplitude, early modern thinkers could not believe local people were capable of building mighty embankments beside it;...
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homeless when floodwaters poured over the top of the Thames Embankment and part of the Chelsea Embankment collapsed. It was the last major flood to affect...
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Embankment Pier is a pier on the River Thames in City of Westminster, London. It is located on the north bank of the river, immediately next to the Hungerford...
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The Thames Torso Murders, often called the Thames Mysteries or the Embankment Murders, were a sequence of unsolved murders of women occurring in London...
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The Thames Embankment along the north side of the Thames River in London, England The Victoria Embankment contained within the Thames Embankments The...
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Great Stink (redirect from Thames River Incident)
Bazalgette began building three embankments along the shores of the Thames. On the northern side he built the Victoria Embankment, which runs from Westminster...
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267 guest rooms and panoramic views of the River Thames across Savoy Place and the Thames Embankment. The hotel is a Grade II listed building. The House...
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homeless when flood waters poured over the top of the Thames Embankment and part of the Chelsea Embankment collapsed. It was the last major flood to affect...
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Cleopatra's Needle on the Thames Embankment, and the sturgeon lamp posts (colloquially "dolphin lamp posts") that line the embankment. He was the second son...
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previous releases; and—inspired by photographs of homeless people on the Thames Embankment taken by singer Ian Anderson's wife Jennie Franks—contains a number...
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Strand leading to the City; Northumberland Avenue leading to the Thames Embankment; Whitehall leading to Parliament Square; The Mall leading to Admiralty...
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the south bank of the River Thames, 420 metres east of Tower Bridge. It forms the eastern end of the Shad Thames embankment that starts at Tower Bridge...
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edge of a river; the river Thames formerly reached here prior to the building of the Thames Embankment Victoria Embankment – after Queen Victoria, reigning...
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The Victoria Embankment Gardens are a series of gardens on the north side of the River Thames between Blackfriars Bridge and Westminster Bridge in London...
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Dolphin lamp standard (category Victoria Embankment)
Dolphin lamp standards provide electric light along much of the Thames Embankment in London, United Kingdom. Two stylised dolphins or sturgeons writhe...
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Central London, running from Trafalgar Square in the west to the Thames Embankment in the east. The road was built on the site of Northumberland House...
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Savoy Place (category Buildings and structures on the River Thames)
the building up to the Strand. In front is the Victoria Embankment, part of the Thames Embankment. Close by are Savoy Hill House (best known for accommodating...
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Lambeth Bridge, between Millbank and the river. It forms part of the Thames Embankment. Victoria Tower Gardens is a Grade II* listed park created in two...
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him. In 1888, the Prince of Wales unveiled a statue of Frere on the Thames embankment. Mount Bartle Frere (1622m), the highest mountain in Queensland, Australia...
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Tideway (redirect from Thames Tideway)
designated the Thames Gateway above this point. The shore of the Outer Estuary consists of saltmarshes and mudflats, but there are manmade embankments along much...
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had been removed on 6 July 1878. The needle was installed on the Thames Embankment in September 1878, where it still stands. Designed by engineer John...
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SIS Building (redirect from 85 Albert Embankment)
intelligence agency. It is located at 85 Albert Embankment in Vauxhall, London, on the bank of the River Thames beside Vauxhall Bridge. The building has been...
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London sewer system (category Thames Water)
the Thames Embankment. The Embankment also allowed new roads, new public gardens, and the Circle line of the London Underground. Victoria Embankment was...
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Bazalgette with designs for the landing stages and masonry of the Thames Embankment including work on the dolphin lamp standard, and for the pumping stations...
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Joseph Bazalgette (category Thames Water)
both on the south side of the Thames and at Abbey Mills (in the River Lea valley, 1868) and on the Chelsea Embankment (close to Grosvenor Bridge; 1875)...
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ancient times, now stand in Central Park in New York City and on the Thames Embankment, in London. The underwater archaeological work of Franck Goddio and...
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