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| A piece of Egypt in London. |
As you walk along the Victoria Embankment, outside of the quaint Victoria Embankment Gardens, there stands an Egyptian Needle made of granite.
It is flanked by two bronze fake Egyptian sphinxes, which stare towards the needle, rather than having their backs to it in a typical guarding posture. This, apparently, was due to an error when they were installed.
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| My eldest, Alysha, sits with the undamaged sphinx. |
On close inspection you can see shrapnel damage, in one of the sphinx, from when a bomb was dropped during a German air raid, in 1917, which detonated close to the needle.
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| Shrapnel Damage. |
Also, the benches along the Victoria Embankment have winged sphinxes as armrests, which adds even more of an Egyptian feel to the area.
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| One of the Egyptian styled benches that can be found along Victoria Embankment. |
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| This bench uses Camels as the armrests. |
