A view along the Thames Embankment looking towards Cleopatra's Needle. The Needle was brought to London from Egypt as a gift in 1877, with the sphinxes added shortly after its erection on this site.

Date:: 1945 - 1965

Location:: Cleopatra's Needle, Victoria Embankment, Westminster, City of Westminster, Greater London Authority

Reference:: AA001316

Type:: Photograph (Negative)

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This is part of the Series: RAW01/02 Negatives and prints of English locations; within the Collection: RAW01 S W Rawlings Collection

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© Historic England Archive

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Curator: Birks, David

Photographer: Rawlings, Stanley William

Keywords

Prehistoric Or Roman Obelisk