June 2012: The place where skateboards go to die

I was in town and wandered into the Embankment footbridge. This is a series of photographs of the bridge and its surroundings

Some serious supports there.

That is the railway bridge

Its something out of the terminators or transformers movie

But I guess the transformers didn't have to deal with pigeon crap, despite the anti pigeon wires

Some pigeons taking it easy. Bloody feathered rats

Mr. Pigeon on the right is making eyes at one legged Ms. Pigeon on the left

Highlighters on the bridges

 

Looking left and right on the pedestrian bridge

A tourist bridge

Where the bridge supports come to meet ground

A skateboard?

What’s a skateboard doing here?

And there are tons of them.

With some shoes and a wooden display rack

This is a London sub-culture, when skateboards die or break or a skateboarder dies, they chuck his board in here. Fascinating, no?

I am held aloft on the bridge by these steel cables, fascinating, eh?

One of the anti climb fences

Its low tide so the river beaches can be seen, an outlet is still losing some water



The pillars are very clean, surprising, eh?

The railway bridge, its painted in an interesting set of colours.

Couple of imposing buildings on the Embankment side.

The panorama can be seen on this plaque. Now for the panorama itself

Cleopatra’s Needle, it was first erected in Egypt by Pharaoh Thothmes III and then here in London in 1870. Thot so..

A ship’s bridge structure on top of the South Bank

A busker, cold…

The tide is rising a bit…

Swirls of water rising to protest against the river flow and the tidal flow

Rubbish on one of the pillars

More pillars being sloshed around, you can see how far the tide rises, can you see the rust rings up high on the pillar? at least 3-4 meters.

Hello?

I had to wave

Rushing off to the other side and wave again

Another busker

Some of the warning navigation lights

Another peek through to the yellow railings through the white and green girders

 
Some of the brick pillars date back at least a century and you can see the brickwork being held in by the staples.

Lovely bridge…