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Victoria Tower Gardens is a public park along the north bank of the River Thames in London, adjacent to the Victoria Tower, at the south-western corner of the Palace of Westminster. The park, extends southwards from the Palace to Lambeth Bridge, between Millbank and the river. It forms part of the Thames Embankment.
In 1874 gardens were created on the reclaimed land on the inward side of the roadway named Victoria Embankment. There were four sections created, the Temple Garden to the east, the Main Gardens to the west (originally known as the Adelphi Gardens), and two other sections to the south following the bend of the Thames.
The Victoria Embankment under construction in 1865. Hungerford Bridge can be seen in the background. Much of the granite used in the projects was brought from Lamorna Cove in Cornwall. The quarried stone was shaped into blocks on site before being loaded on to barges and transported up the English Channel into the Thames.
The Victoria Embankment is a road and river-walk on the north bank of the River Thames in London, formed from land reclaimed during the construction of Joseph Bazalgette's sewerage system in the late 19th century. [1] From 1864 a sequence of public gardens called the Victoria Embankment Gardens was created from this land.
Victoria Bridge, London, built in 1851-8, demolished in 1934 and replaced with the present Chelsea Bridge; Victoria Road, Battersea, London (leading to the bridge mentioned above), later renamed Queen's Road and now called Queenstown Road
Little Ben, a 20 feet (6.1 m)-tall clock tower in the style of Big Ben, stands at the intersection of Vauxhall Bridge Road and Victoria Street. It was erected in 1892 but removed in 1964 during road widening works, and was kept in storage until eventually being restored in 1981.
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The Victoria Tower is a square tower at the south-west end of the Palace of Westminster in London, [1] adjacent to Black Rod's Garden on the west and Old Palace Yard on the east. At 98.5 metres (323 ft), it is slightly taller than the Elizabeth Tower (known formerly as the Clock Tower and popularly as Big Ben) at the north end of the Palace (96 ...