Leonard Bentley
Victoria Embankment
This is an undivided back postcard published in Paris by Ernest Louis Desiree Le Deley using the Heliotype process which was invented by an Englishman, Ernest Edwards in 1870. The postcard was posted in March 1903 and shows the view from Hungerford Bridge looking downstream towards Waterloo Bridge. The Paddle Steamer just leaving Charing Cross Pier is the Thames Steamboat Company's "Alexandra", one of the ABC boats built for the company by Thames Ironworks at Blackwall in 1898. The other two boats were the "Boadicea" and the "Cleopatra". On Thursday 17th May 1900 the "Alexandra" was used to transport the King of Norway and Sweden, Oscar II on a trip down the Thames visiting the Thames Ironworks and the Royal Naval College at Greenwich. Whilst at Greenwich he also visited the Seamen's Hospital which at that time had thirty Scandinavian seamen as patients. Whilst at the Thames Ironworks the King inspected girders which were being made for a Bridge to be built in Norway. The "Alexandra continued in service on the Thames until 1912.
Victoria Embankment
This is an undivided back postcard published in Paris by Ernest Louis Desiree Le Deley using the Heliotype process which was invented by an Englishman, Ernest Edwards in 1870. The postcard was posted in March 1903 and shows the view from Hungerford Bridge looking downstream towards Waterloo Bridge. The Paddle Steamer just leaving Charing Cross Pier is the Thames Steamboat Company's "Alexandra", one of the ABC boats built for the company by Thames Ironworks at Blackwall in 1898. The other two boats were the "Boadicea" and the "Cleopatra". On Thursday 17th May 1900 the "Alexandra" was used to transport the King of Norway and Sweden, Oscar II on a trip down the Thames visiting the Thames Ironworks and the Royal Naval College at Greenwich. Whilst at Greenwich he also visited the Seamen's Hospital which at that time had thirty Scandinavian seamen as patients. Whilst at the Thames Ironworks the King inspected girders which were being made for a Bridge to be built in Norway. The "Alexandra continued in service on the Thames until 1912.