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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.
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.
Victoria Embankment is part of the Thames Embankment, a road and river-walk along the north bank of the River Thames in London, England. Built in the 1860s, it runs from the Palace of Westminster to Blackfriars Bridge in the City of London , and acts as a major thoroughfare for road traffic between the City of Westminster and the City of London.
The Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain or "Eros" (1885–1893) by Alfred Gilbert, Piccadilly Circus There are more than 400 public artworks in the City of Westminster, a borough in central London. The borough has more public sculpture than any other area of London. This reflects its central location containing most of the West End, the political centres of Westminster and Whitehall and three of the ...
The Artist's Garden is a free open-air art exhibition site at 1 Temple Place in London, England, on the rooftop of Temple tube station. [1] [2] The 1,400 square metres (15,000 sq ft) site is part of the Victoria Embankment on the north shore of the Thames. [1] The first exhibition on the site featured work by Lakwena Maciver. [3]
Bazalgette was a prolific Victorian engineer, responsible for the Embankment on the north of the Thames, as well as the smaller Albert Embankment to the south. As chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works his major achievement was the creation (in response to the Great Stink of 1858) of a sewer network for central London which was instrumental in relieving the city from cholera ...
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