{"id":34818,"date":"2025-01-22T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=34818"},"modified":"2025-01-21T14:47:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T14:47:37","slug":"midnight-by-the-thames-the-deserted-streets-and-bridges-of-bankside-and-southbank-in-20-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/midnight-by-the-thames-the-deserted-streets-and-bridges-of-bankside-and-southbank-in-20-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Midnight by the Thames &#8211; the deserted streets and bridges of Bankside and Southbank in 20 photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/bankside-southbank-night-01.jpg\" alt=\"Midnight by the Thames - the deserted streets and bridges of Bankside and Southbank in 20 photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On a cold and damp Monday night, I headed west along the deserted pathways by the River Thames and captured these scenes:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/bankside-southbank-night-02.jpg\" alt=\"Midnight by the Thames - the deserted streets and bridges of Bankside and Southbank in 20 photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Passing the closed Anchor pub on Bankside.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/bankside-southbank-night-03.jpg\" alt=\"Midnight by the Thames - the deserted streets and bridges of Bankside and Southbank in 20 photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/bankside-southbank-night-04.jpg\" alt=\"Midnight by the Thames - the deserted streets and bridges of Bankside and Southbank in 20 photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bus over Southwark Bridge.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/bankside-southbank-night-05.jpg\" alt=\"Midnight by the Thames - the deserted streets and bridges of Bankside and Southbank in 20 photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cannon Street railway bridge.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/bankside-southbank-night-06.jpg\" alt=\"Midnight by the Thames - the deserted streets and bridges of Bankside and Southbank in 20 photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A lone person looks out at the Thames.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/bankside-southbank-night-07.jpg\" alt=\"Midnight by the Thames - the deserted streets and bridges of Bankside and Southbank in 20 photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Swan, next to Shakespeare&#8217;s Globe theatre.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/bankside-southbank-night-08.jpg\" alt=\"Midnight by the Thames - the deserted streets and bridges of Bankside and Southbank in 20 photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Steps down to the Thames.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/bankside-southbank-night-09.jpg\" alt=\"Midnight by the Thames - the deserted streets and bridges of Bankside and Southbank in 20 photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking east along the deserted path.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/bankside-southbank-night-10.jpg\" alt=\"Midnight by the Thames - the deserted streets and bridges of Bankside and Southbank in 20 photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Under the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/millennium.html\"> Millennium Bridge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/bankside-southbank-night-12.jpg\" alt=\"Midnight by the Thames - the deserted streets and bridges of Bankside and Southbank in 20 photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Opening in June 2002, the structure soon earned the nickname of the Wobbly Bridge, as we reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Although the Millennium Bridge, like all bridges, was designed to cope with a degree of movement it soon became clear that things were going seriously awry as the deck swayed about like a drunken sailor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Elderly walkers clung on to the side of the bridge. People reported feeling seasick. The swaying bridge was looking like an expensive fairground ride.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So the bridge was instantly renamed as &#8216;The Wobbly Bridge&#8217;, and after two days of random swaying, swinging and oscillating wildly, the bridge was closed down by embarrassed engineers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/millennium.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/bankside-southbank-night-11.jpg\" alt=\"Midnight by the Thames - the deserted streets and bridges of Bankside and Southbank in 20 photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>St Paul&#8217;s across the river.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/bankside-southbank-night-13.jpg\" alt=\"Midnight by the Thames - the deserted streets and bridges of Bankside and Southbank in 20 photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A view of the Thames beach.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/bankside-southbank-night-14.jpg\" alt=\"Midnight by the Thames - the deserted streets and bridges of Bankside and Southbank in 20 photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/bankside-southbank-night-15.jpg\" alt=\"Midnight by the Thames - the deserted streets and bridges of Bankside and Southbank in 20 photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/bankside-southbank-night-16.jpg\" alt=\"Midnight by the Thames - the deserted streets and bridges of Bankside and Southbank in 20 photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/bankside-southbank-night-17.jpg\" alt=\"Midnight by the Thames - the deserted streets and bridges of Bankside and Southbank in 20 photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>National Theatre.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/bankside-southbank-night-18.jpg\" alt=\"Midnight by the Thames - the deserted streets and bridges of Bankside and Southbank in 20 photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/bankside-southbank-night-19.jpg\" alt=\"Midnight by the Thames - the deserted streets and bridges of Bankside and Southbank in 20 photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/bankside-southbank-night-20.jpg\" alt=\"Midnight by the Thames - the deserted streets and bridges of Bankside and Southbank in 20 photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/bankside-southbank-night-21.jpg\" alt=\"Midnight by the Thames - the deserted streets and bridges of Bankside and Southbank in 20 photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/bankside-southbank-night-22.jpg\" alt=\"Midnight by the Thames - the deserted streets and bridges of Bankside and Southbank in 20 photos\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Join the forum chat<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.net\/forums\/threads\/the-river-thames-photos-and-stories.323878\/page-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The River\u00a0Thames \u2013 photos and stories<\/a>\u00a0(over 700 posts)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.net\/forums\/threads\/central-london-photos-parks-buildings-street-scenes-and-london-life.329057\/page-5#post-17082678\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Central London photos \u2013 parks, buildings, street scenes and London life<\/a>\u00a0(over 200 posts)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a cold and damp Monday night, I headed west along the deserted pathways by the River Thames and captured these scenes:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,456,17,193],"tags":[199,1964,10,1081,2233,18,1195,139,809],"class_list":["post-34818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-news","category-photos","category-places","tag-architecture","tag-bankside","tag-london","tag-millennium-bridge","tag-night-photography","tag-photography","tag-photos","tag-southbank","tag-street-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bankside-southbank-night-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-93A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34818"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34827,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34818\/revisions\/34827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}