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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.
Victoria Embankment under construction in 1865 Electric light provided by Yablochkov candles in December 1878. The Victoria Embankment was designed by civil engineer Francis Webb Sheilds, who submitted designs to a Royal Commission [1] appointed in 1861. Following acceptance of the designs, construction was carried out by the Metropolitan Board ...
A bronze statue of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, also known as Brunel Monument or the Isambard Brunel Monument, [1] by Carlo Marochetti, stands on the Victoria Embankment in London, England, at the west end of Temple Place. [2] The statue rests on a Portland stone pedestal, with flanking screens and benches, by the architect Richard Norman Shaw. [3]
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]
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 ...
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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Pages in category "Victoria Embankment" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. ... The Artist's Garden; B. Battle of Britain Monument, London;