. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. ith the tide, and which 3-4 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [Victoria Embankment,, carry the lower ends of gangways that are hingedto the masonry above. The gangways are formedof two wrought-iron girders, carrying a timber plat-form ; and they move between granite walls parallelto the general line of the roadway. Upon the plat-forms there are waiting-rooms for passengers. On the land side the Embankment is boundedfrom Westminster almost to Whitehall Place byfour acres of recovered foreshore that were claimedby the Crown, but no
. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. ith the tide, and which 3-4 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [Victoria Embankment,, carry the lower ends of gangways that are hingedto the masonry above. The gangways are formedof two wrought-iron girders, carrying a timber plat-form ; and they move between granite walls parallelto the general line of the roadway. Upon the plat-forms there are waiting-rooms for passengers. On the land side the Embankment is boundedfrom Westminster almost to Whitehall Place byfour acres of recovered foreshore that were claimedby the Crown, but now belong to the City of West- garden, and then a piece added to the grounds ofthe Temple, but upon which the Templars will notbe at liberty to build. Lasdy, there is the boundarywall separating the carriage-way from the City GasWorks. To the east of Blackfriars Bridge the line of theEmbankment roadway is prolonged to the IVLansionHouse, leaving the course of the river, and formingone grand thoroughfare, known as Queen VictoriaStreet, between the Houses of Parliament and the. WHITEHALL GARDENS, FROM THE RIVER. minster. A broad and commodious approach to theEmbankment occurs somewhat to the south-westof the Hungerford Railway Bridge, opening out ofWhitehall Place. From there to Waterloo Bridgethe Embankment is bounded by a similar foreshore,amounting to nearly eight acres, and becominggradually narrowed from west to east. This portionis planted as an ornamental garden for the enjoy-ment of the public. To the east of WaterlooBridge is what was once the river front of SomersetHouse, all marked and scarred by water, and withhuge mooring rings projecting from the masonry,but now quite inland. Next conies a space behindthe Temple Railway Station, communicating withSurrey Street, Norfolk Street, and Arundel another small portion of public ornamental City. The eastern portion ot this thoroughfare,between Cannon Street and the Mansion House,was completed and opened for public
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