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Victoria Embankment

An anonymously published postcard showing Victoria Embankment looking east from Hungerford Bridge. From the left the Hotel Cecil, Cleopatra's Needle, Somerset House and the old Waterloo Bridge. The London County Council paddle steamer "Turner" has just left Charing Cross pier for its next stop downstream, probably Waterloo Pier. "Turner" was built for the ill fated LCC riverboat service by Napier & Miller Co. Ltd in Glasgow, when the service ceased in 1907 she was laid up for two years until she was sold to a German company for service on the River Rhine, all for the sum of £500.00, she had cost the LCC more than £6000.00..

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Uploaded on June 15, 2016
Taken circa 1906