Talk:Thames Embankment

Could we have some more exact dating for the completion(s) of the Embankment please.

It must have completely changed the parts of London, mainly to the south, that were on the Thames flood plain, like Kennington Park.

Szczels 08:35, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

refs
Article does look a bit thin. Here are two refs I came across that I am not expert enough to add myself:

The Engineer May 19 1871, page 340 PROPOSED THAMES EMBANKMENT AT CHELSEA, MR. J. W. BAZALGETTE, M. INST. C.E., ENGINEER

The Engineer May 26 1871, page 354 PROPOSED THAMES EMBANKMENT AT CHELSEA, MR. J. W. BAZALGETTE, M. INST. C.E., ENGINEER

First is about the "wall", the second about the sewer. Also available online eg via Graces Guide http://www.gracesguide.co.uk. These are just about the Chelsea part, there are presumably corresponding plans for the Victoria part which was more elaborate (eg constructed using coffer dams) but I can't immediately find them.

Victoria Embankment, was built on the north bank of the river between Westminster and Blackfriars between 1864 and 1870; it had a net cost of £1,156,981, was 2.0 kilometres long, and enclosed 15.1 hectares of reclaimed land. The Victoria Embankment was followed by the Albert Embankment, running 1.3 kilometres along the south bank of the Thames from Vauxhall to Westminster Bridge, built between 1866 and 1869 for £1,104,525 and reclaiming a net 2.1 hectares of land. The third of the Board of Works’ embankments, Chelsea Embankment, ran 1.3 kilometres along the north bank of the Thames from Chelsea Hospital to Battersea Bridge and was built between 1871 and 1874 for £298,950; it contained 3.8 hectares of reclaimed land.

Davidnugget (talk) 20:41, 17 March 2015 (UTC)davidnugget