Leonard Bentley
Waterloo Bridge
This is a postcard in the Kingsway Real Photo Series published by W.H. Smith & Sons. It shows the view looking east and downstream towards the old Waterloo Bridge. Two of the boats in the foreground are former London County Council paddle steamers, still in the livery of the LCC but with the emblem of the City Steamboat Company on their paddle boxes. Twelve of the thirty boat LCC fleet were sold to the City Steamboat Company in an auction held in late 1909, so this photograph may have been taken between 1910 and 1914 by which time most of the boats had been sold on to operators in France, Germany and Italy. A few boats also ended their days on the River Tigris in Iraq after being used by the Royal Indian Marine in their operations against Turkish forces during WW1.
Waterloo Bridge
This is a postcard in the Kingsway Real Photo Series published by W.H. Smith & Sons. It shows the view looking east and downstream towards the old Waterloo Bridge. Two of the boats in the foreground are former London County Council paddle steamers, still in the livery of the LCC but with the emblem of the City Steamboat Company on their paddle boxes. Twelve of the thirty boat LCC fleet were sold to the City Steamboat Company in an auction held in late 1909, so this photograph may have been taken between 1910 and 1914 by which time most of the boats had been sold on to operators in France, Germany and Italy. A few boats also ended their days on the River Tigris in Iraq after being used by the Royal Indian Marine in their operations against Turkish forces during WW1.