TQ3079 : Albert Embankment
taken 14 years ago, near to Lambeth, England
The Albert Embankment is a stretch of the river bank on the south side of the River Thames. It stretches approximately one mile (1.6 km) northward from Vauxhall Bridge to Westminster Bridge.
Created by the engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette for the Metropolitan Board of Works between July 1866 and November 1869 and was intended to protect Lambeth from flooding.
Along the embankment are several listed structures - river wall & lampstandards Link , the inland wall Link , benches Link
Sir Joseph William Bazalgette, CB (28 March 1819 – 15 March 1891) was a 19th-century English civil engineer. As chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works his major achievement was the creation of a sewer network for central London which was instrumental in relieving the city from cholera epidemics, while beginning the cleansing of the River Thames.
Wikipedia: Link