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	Embankment - LoveToKnow 1911
		The word embankment has thus come to be used for the mass of material, faced and supported by a stone wall and protected by a parapet, placed along the banks of a river where it passes through a city, whether to guard against floods or to gain additional space.
		Such is the Thames Embankment in London, which carries a broad roadway, while under it runs the Underground railway.
		In this sense an embankment is distinguished from a quay, though the mechanical construction may be the same, the latter word being confined to places where ships are loaded and unloaded, thus differing from the French quai, which is used both of embankments and quays, e.g.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Embankment (254 words)

	Thames - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It rises in four headstreams (the Thames or Isis, Churn, Coln, and Leach) in the Cotswold Hills, E Gloucestershire, and flows generally eastward across S England and through London to the North Sea at The Nore.
		The upper valley of the Thames is a broad, flat basin of alluvial clay soil, through which the river winds and turns constantly in all directions.
		The Thames Embankment and the disciplining of nature in modernity.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-thamese1ng.html (689 words)

	Thames Embankment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Thames Embankment is a major feat of 19th century civil engineering in central London.
		Beyond the Houses of Parliament, it is named Victoria Embankment as it stretches to Blackfriars Bridge; this stretch also incorporates a section of the London Underground network used by the District and Circle Lines, and several stretches of gardens and open space.
		The much smaller Albert Embankment is on the south side of the river, opposite the Millbank section of the Thames Embankment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thames_Embankment (174 words)

	Victorian London - Thames - Embankments
		Victoria Embankment, London, extends along the left bank from Westminster to Blackfriars, a distance of about a mile and a quarter, and was constructed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette, the engineer to the Metropolitan Board of Works.
		The substitution of the beautiful curve of the Embankment, majestic in its simplicity, with its massive granite walls, flourishing trees, and trim gardens, is an unspeakable improvement on the squalid foreshore, and tumble-down wharves, and backs of dingy houses which formerly abutted on the river.
		In the foreground is one of the floating steamboat-piers of the Thames Conservancy.
	www.victorianlondon.org /thames/embankments.htm (1933 words)

	Embankment,Embankment Garden,Victoria Embankment,Embankment Gardens,Embankment London,Embankment near London, ...
		The Victoria Embankment, which is popularly referred to as The Embankment by the quintessential Londoner has been a characteristic feature of the city of London.
		The prime consideration for constructing this colossal Embankment which stretched from Westminster Bridge and The Houses of Parliament to Blackfriar's Bridge up north was to ease the congestion on The Strand and Fleet Street.
		To further accentuate the beauty, the Embankment Gardens were laid out in 1870 and today the Embankment Garden with its lush green landscaped vistas replete with outdoor cafes is easily one of London's greatest appeal.
	www.6london.com /tourist-attractions-in-london/the-embankment.html (597 words)

	A Review of Dale H. Porter's The Thames Embankment
		In his attempt to show the different groups affected by building the Embankment, he not only discusses wages of all kinds of laborers, he also provides capsule descriptions of mudlarks, sweepers, and other kinds of petty criminals who made their livings on the Thames.
		In other words, The Thames Embankment is one of those books like Asa Briggs' Victorian Cities that provides a kind of imaginative archeology, permitting modern students of Victorian literature, art, and culture to gain a sense of an age that simultaneously had so much and so little in common with our own.
		I read The Thames Embankment in a paperback edition, and before I reached page 10, the front and back covers had curled themselves into most unbook-like shapes; it seems a shame for such a fine work of historical recovery to present itself in such an obviously impermanent and unaesthetic form.
	www.victorianweb.org /technology/review.html (647 words)

	H-Net Review: Denis Bocquet on The Thames Embankment. Environment, Technology and Society in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Thames embankment itself began in 1863 under the supervision of the engineering department of the Metropolitan Board of Works (MBW) representing the City Corporation and all the London borough councils.
		As "Thames embankment engineer" in the Office of Works (OW) (the old institution in charge of the royal domain), Page failed to have his projects accepted because the institution to which he belonged was already outdated, and not able to gain wide enough support.
		Of course, the "future history" of the embankment had to be made, and especially its impact on the environment and its consequences in the institutional organization of the capital city, but there was no need, perhaps, to make a concept out of it.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=1520947257727 (1601 words)

	"Rich Earth below the Sand" and the Origins of the Thames Embankments
		By the end of the 1820s commentators increasingly came to remark upon the scatterings of excrement left on the banks of the river at low tide, the choking of the river by faecal mudbanks (with their associated flora and fauna), and the stench of hydrogen sulphide from the decomposing load of the river.
		That it was successful in building the embankments is testimony to the Board's capacity to assemble a very modern vision of nature, for in building the embankments the Board engineered a permanent change in the river that reflected the perceived need to exile uncontrolled nature from the city beyond the boundary of firm embankments.
		His embankment would have allowed free movement of traffic on the new roadway like on the well-drained, sandy roads of the Walcheren dykes; and the "drownd land" of the Thames mudflats, like the "rich Earth" under the Westerschelde sands, to be brought back to profitable life.
	reconstruction.eserver.org /023/oliver.htm (4735 words)

	Thames Embankment
		Set of letters, and reports with plans which detail the progress and history of the Chelsea Embankment and the Chelsea Bridge, from initial enquiries by the Commission for Metropolitan improvements in 1843, to its report of 1845, and the progress of the present alterations to the Thames Embankment at Chelsea.
		Part I on the Chelsea Embankment includes details of who owners the land, the original dimensions of the road, the first estimate and the contributions received.
		Part II is the New Street from Lower Sloane Street to Chelsea Bridge report, and Part IV the Battersea Bridge report including details of the purchase of land, the present state of the roads and Park, and the works remaining to be don.
	www.bopcris.ac.uk /bopall/ref3648.html (200 words)

	Victorian London - Publications - Social Investigation/Journalism - London Up to Date, by George Augustus Sala, 1895 - ...
		Some antiquaries have endeavoured to show that the river wharves of the Thames were built by the native Britons long before the Roman invasion; but it is likelier that the Romans only found earthworks on the shores of the Thames, and substituted strongly-built walls of brick for the primitive embankments.
		Three or four times in the course of the eighteenth century fresh proposals were made to build continuous quays on both sides of the river, but they did not go beyond the making of a few speeches and the publication of a few pamphlets and maps.
		These stations should make the Embankment lively; but, to my mind, they utterly fail to do so; and the crowds of passengers who are continually entering or emerging from the stations seem to bestow scarcely any attention on the great terrace over which so many hundreds of thousands of pounds were spent.
	www.victorianlondon.org /publications/uptodate-25.htm (1861 words)

	Pepys' Diary: Strand, The
		“The Embankment was intended to carry a new road along the edge of the Thames from Westminster to the City of London and, below ground, to accommodate large sewers and a line for the Metropolitan and District Railway.
		Construction of the Victoria Embankment to the designs of Sir Joseph Bazalgette began in 1864 and was completed in July 1870.
		The upshot of this was that the Thames now became too deep for the water to freeze solid, so the frost fairs that had occurred in the past, which Sam Pepys himself may well have known, were no more.
	www.pepysdiary.com /p/245.php (509 words)

	The Embankment, Gravesend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Embankment enjoys a superb location with its historic Thames-side setting and excellent transport links to the Capital and the Continent.
		The Embankment, Gravesend is the new riverside destination being created by Countryside Properties PLC on the south bank of the River Thames just 25 miles from Central London.
		The Embankment will also be the focus for a new business community as well as various community and leisure facilities.
	ssw.countryside-properties.com /theembankment (170 words)

	Construction of London's Victorian sewers: the vital role of Joseph Bazalgette -- Cook 77 (914): 802 -- Postgraduate ...
		On the main drainage of London, and the interception of the sewage from the River Thames.
		Thomas Southwood Smith FRCP (1788-1861): leading exponent of diseases of poverty, and pioneer of sanitary reform in the mid-nineteenth century.
		Bazalgette E. The Victoria, Albert, and Chelsea Embankments of the River Thames.
	pmj.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/77/914/802 (1263 words)

	LondonTown.com \| Victoria Embankment Guide \| Victoria Embankment London, , England, UK \| London Streets by Street \| ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The nearest underground station to Victoria Embankment is 'Embankment ' which is about 4 minutes to the North West.
		In the heart of London between the Strand and Thames Embankment, this famous Grade II listed Victorian railway hotel has been totally refurbished to provide every modern convenience whilst retaining its19th-century elegance.
		Embankment tube, Villiers Street, (4 mins to the North West)
	www.londontown.com /LondonStreets/_victoria_embankment_755.html (831 words)

	rowing london thames rowing club london rowing club Womens and mens rowing. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Catering for all, from juniors to veterans, from novices to internationals, Thames is currently the largest and most successful rowing club in the United Kingdom.
		Thames athlete Annie Vernon, together with Anna Bebington of Leander, got her international season off to an emphatic start with Gold in the Double Scull at the Munich World Cup Regatta.
		Thames caters for a variety of rowers and rowing standards and is always on the lookout for new members - if you are thinking of becoming a member, click here to find out how...
	www.thamesrc.demon.co.uk (411 words)

	Thames, river, England — Infoplease.com
		The land before London: long before the Romans built their first trading post on the banks of the River Thames, London was home to......
		Sites from the Thames estuary wetlands, England, and their Bronze Age use.
		British otters return to the river: during the 1960s, the use of organochlorine pesticides in farming devastated much of England's......
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0848344.html (617 words)

	Cleopatras Needle, The Embankment, london, England - how and why it got there!
		Anyone visiting London for the first time and walking along the Thames Embankment may be surprised to come across an original Egyptian obelisk.
		It is known as Cleopatra's Needle as it was brought to London from Alexandria, the royal city of Cleopatra.
		The 'needle' was winched into position on the Embankment in September 1878, to the delight of the people.
	www.historic-uk.com /HistoryUK/England-History/CleopatrasNeedle.htm (601 words)

	Victoria Embankment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Victoria Embankment extends from the City of Westminster into the City of London.
		The Victoria Embankment (part of the A3211) starts at Westminster Bridge, just north of the Palace of Westminster, then follows the course of the river bank north, past Hungerford Bridge, Waterloo Bridge, and then ends at Blackfriars Bridge.
		Victoria Embankment was also the southern end of the Kingsway tramway subway.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victoria_Embankment (294 words)

	The University of Akron Press
		The embankment of the Thames River in Victorian London is usually considered the final element of the London Main Drainage, a great engineering project that carried the sewage of the crowded metropolis down the valley and ended the toxic pollution of the river and surrounding neighborhoods.
		Above all, The Thames Embankment shows how innovations in technology, in environmental assessment, and in public policy formations not only lead to public works projects but are, in turn, stimulated and shaped by them.
		"The Thames Embankment is one of those books like Asa Briggs' Victorian Cities that provides a kind of imaginative archaeology, permitting modern students of Victorian literature, art, and culture to gain a sense of an age that simultaneously had so much and so little in common with our own.
	www3.uakron.edu /uapress/porter.html (338 words)

	BSN Script Detail
		It’s on Victoria Embankment- and is expected to be one of the busiest stations in the UK.
		So the opening of a new life boat station on the Thames embankment this week was cause for celebration, as it marks the culmination of thousands of pounds of public fund-raising over several years.
		The new life boat station on Victoria Embankment, in the heart of the city, has been transferred from its former site near the Tower of London.
	www.bsn.org.uk /script.php?id=11662 (594 words)

	Thames Foreshore, Lambeth North, c. 1860
		Doulton's Pottery can be seen on the left as well as the chimneys and kilns of other potteries including Smith's Pottery in the background.
		One of a series of photographs taken around 1860 of the Thames foreshore prior to the construction of the Thames Embankment in 1866.
		It shows Princes Street and the Thames foreshore, during the early stages of construction.
	www.ideal-homes.org.uk /lambeth/lambeth-north/thames-foreshore-01.htm (86 words)

	Coal and Wine Tax Posts
		The revenue raised was used for metropolitan improvement schemes including the building of the Thames Embankment, the erection of the Holborn Viaduct and the purchase of the River Thames bridges, including Kingston upon Thames, Hampton Court and Walton on Thames, to free them from tolls.
		The sole example of this style in the Borough is on the railway embankment at Stokesheath Road, Oxshott.
		It is believed that this granite obelisk was originally erected at New Haw Lock under the powers of the 1851 Act and relocated at Walton on Thames with the passing of the 1861 Act.
	www.elmbridge.gov.uk /Tourism/coalwine.htm (1305 words)

	The Social Affairs Unit - Web Review: Christopher Peachment doesn't enjoy Embankment at Tate Modern
		Social Affairs Unit reviewer Bunny Smedley explained in a previous review (Bunny Smedley enjoys Rachel Whiteread's Embankment at Tate Modern) why - whilst she was not sure that Embankment was greatly art - she greatly enjoyed the work.
		It seems a little tardy to comment on Rachel Whiteread's Embankment some six months after it was installed at the Tate Modern, but I always have to grit my teeth to go in the place.
		The title refers not only to its riverside location, close to the Thames embankment, but to the nature of its construction with the piles of individual boxes forming a series of barriers.
	www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk /blog/archives/000853.php (1499 words)

	Elsewhere: London: Somerset House , home of the great Courtauld Gallery, opens its courtyard and the Gilbert Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		To complicate matters further, the new building had to contain both the offices and the living quarters of the heads of the different departments; these were the days when "households" entailed cooks quarters, housekeepers and secretaries, porters and "bag bearers"(officers did not carry their own briefcases) and storage for coal and candles.
		The façade of the Embankment building is a close sister to the Mint, or "Hotel des Monnaies, Paris," (1768-75) by J. Antoine, which, together with the Louvre and the Ecole Militaire by Gabriel, were his source for coupled columns and vaulting.
		Before bidding farewell to Somerset House there is the pleasure of a quiet cup of tea on the River Terrace, while the Thames floats quietly by and sculpted clouds pass overhead, and images of arts great glories and mankind’s finest workmanship dance in the minds eye.
	www.thecityreview.com /somerset.html (6256 words)

	eBay - london thames, Prints, Postcards Paper items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		RPPC of River Thames and Victoria Embankment, London
		HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT and Thames, London, 1909 canvas
		Thames Embankment Cleopatra's Needle London UK 1920s PC
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=london+thames+...&krd=1 (409 words)

	eBay.co.uk - thames, ford thames, Postcards, Diecast Vehicles items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Old Thames lapel badge from the 60s Insigne Abzeichen
		ESTUARY-LAND and WATER IN THE LOWER THAMES BASIN-1ST H/B
		The Thames at Surbition - Pub by W.C. Bryan
	search.ebay.co.uk /thames (335 words)

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