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Charing Cross Pier

This is an anonymously published postcard printed and colourised in England. The view shows the River Thames looking downstream from Hungerford Bridge with Charing Cross Pier in the foreground. A London County Council paddle steamer approaches the pier in the summer of 1906, it is one of the thirty paddle steamers built in 1905 for the London County Council by four shipbuilding companies, the Thames Ironworks at Blackwall built the following, Alleyn, Boydell, Brunel, Carlyle, Gibbon, Gresham, King Alfred, Morris, Purcell, Sloane and Vanbrugh.

The J.I. Thornycroft & Co at Southampton built Ben Johnson, Francis Drake, Raleigh and Shakespeare. The company subcontracted G. Rennie & Co at Greenwich to build, Christopher Wren, Marlowe, Pepys and Rennie.

The Napier & Miller company in Glasgow built Caxton, Charles Lamb, Chaucer, Colechurch, Earl Godwin, Edmund Ironside, Fitzailwin, Olaf, Thomas More, Turner and Whittington.

 

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Uploaded on November 9, 2016
Taken circa 1906