Progress on the Thames Embankment near Arundel-street

1866

Source: Illustrated London News.

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The construction of that part of the Thames Embankment which extends from Waterloo Bridge to the east side of the Temple Gardens, a length of 1970 ft., is rapidly approaching completion — the contractor, Mr. Bitson, haying lost no time in performing his share of this gigantic work of metropolitan improvement. The large space of solid ground thus reclaimed from the bed of the river, and made available either for new buildings, or for the terrace, road, and railway, with the low-level sewer of the main drainage underneath, and the subway intended to contain the gas-pipes, water-pipes, telegraph wires, and other apparatus of a great city thorougnfare, may be seen by anyone who, when passing along the Strand, will take the trouble to turn down Norfolk-street and look over the railings at the bottom. The Illustration on our front page shows the progress of the masonry and brickwork which compose the outer wall of the embankment, faced with cut granite, and the arched passages of the drain and subway just referred to. The View is taken from the outside verge, looking towards the shore in the direction of the Temple.

A Panoramic View of the whole of the Thames Embankment as it will appear when finished, from Westminster Bridge to Blackfrian, was published in this Journal a twelvemonth ago.

Bibliography

“Progress on the Thames Embankment near Arundel-street.” Illustrated London News. 48 (24 February 1866): 173-74. Hathi Trust Digital Library version of a copy in the University of Michigan Library. Web. 22 December 2015.

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