Albert Embankment
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The Albert Embankment is a stretch of the river bank on the south side of the River Thames in central London. It stretches approximately one mile northwards from Vauxhall Bridge to Westminster Bridge, and is located in the London Borough of Lambeth.
Created by Sir Joseph Bazalgette between July 1866 and November 1869, it included land reclaimed from the river and various small timber and boat building yards, and was intended to protect low-lying areas of Lambeth from flooding while also providing a new highway to bypass local congested streets.
Unlike Bazalgette's Thames Embankment (including Chelsea Embankment and Victoria Embankment), the Albert Embankment does not incorporate major interceptory sewers. This allowed the southern section of the embankment (upstream from Lambeth Bridge to include a number of bridges into a small dock — White Hart Dock — used for barges to bring clay and other supplies to the Royal Doulton pottery works.
Some of the reclaimed land was sold to the trustees of St Thomas' Hospital. To the north of Lambeth Bridge, the Embankment is a narrower pedestrian promenade in front of the hospital, with motor traffic carried behind the hospital on Lambeth Palace Road.
The Albert Embankment now forms part of the A3036 road between Vauxhall Bridge and Lambeth Bridge, where it adjoins Lambeth Palace Road and Lambeth Road.
