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Description: | This view of the western end of the embankment at Chelsea, as seen from the tower of a church, shows Battersea Bridge, designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette and opened in 1890. Crosby Hall and the Lots Road power station are in the background.
Crosby Hall is the only surviving part of a mansion built on Bishopsgate in 1466-75 that was subsequently owned by Sir Thomas More and lived in by Sir Walter Raleigh. It was re-sited in Danvers Street in 1908.
A small Shell tanker is driving towards the bridge along the Embankment below the camera, demonstrating the need to transport petrol for motor cars and buses. Two B-type buses are passing at the bridge entrance; other traffic is very light. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Public Services Cityscape | Temporal: | 17 Aug 1923 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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