Victoria Embankment, Cleopatra's Needle, and Thames steam ferries

Victoria Embankment, Cleopatra's Needle, and Thames steam ferries seen from from Hungerford Bridge

London

Image and text scanned by Nathalie Chevalier.

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The Victoria Embankment, which stretches from Westminster to Blackfriars Bridge offers a pleasant approach to the City and the Tower. It was constructed in 1864-70 at a cost of nearly �2,000,000.

Rows of Trees have been planted along the side of the Embankment, which in a few years will afford a shady promenade. On the right of the Embankment, by the Adelphi steps, rises Cleopatra's Needle, an ancient Egyptian Obelisk, brought and erected here in 1878. [text accompanying photograph]

Bibliography

The volume containing these images by an unidentified photographer bears the imprint "With H. and C. F. Feist's compliments" but no name, date, or place of publication, though the Feists were dealers in port wine, and Plate 30 demonstrates that the photograph must have been taken after 1902, and John R. Mendel offers evidence that it dates before mid-1906 [GPL].

Last modified 7 November 2003