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Taming the Thames
Constructing the Victoria Embankment on the north bank of the River Thames in London: an image analysed by Roger Hudson.
Roger Hudson
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History Today
Volume 62 Issue 3 March 2012
This view of Somerset House on the north bank of the Thames, looking downstream towards the dome of St Paul’s, was taken a year or two after the start of one of the great feats of Victorian civil engineering, the building of the Victoria Embankment, visible in the right half of the picture.
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This view of Somerset House on the north bank of the Thames, looking downstream towards the dome of St Paul’s, was taken a year or two after the start of one of the great feats of Victorian civil engineering, the building of the Victoria Embankment, visible in the right half of the picture.
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