Leonard Bentley
Tattershall Castle
This is a photograph of the PS Tattershall Castle during her service as a passenger ferry between Kingston-upon-Hull and the New Holland pier in Lincolnshire. The paddle steamer was built in 1934 by William Gray & Co at Hartlepool, Co. Durham for the London and North Eastern Railway. She continued in service after nationalisation of the railways until 1973 when she was retired. The ferry service was made redundant in 1981 when the Humber Bridge was opened. She was towed to London where she first became a floating art gallery and then in 1982 a restaurant ship. She is still a restaurant ship moored on the Victoria Embankment but over the intervening years she has lost her paddle boxes and has been painted light blue. The photograph below was taken in the late 1970s when the Tattershall Castle was a floating art gallery.
Tattershall Castle
This is a photograph of the PS Tattershall Castle during her service as a passenger ferry between Kingston-upon-Hull and the New Holland pier in Lincolnshire. The paddle steamer was built in 1934 by William Gray & Co at Hartlepool, Co. Durham for the London and North Eastern Railway. She continued in service after nationalisation of the railways until 1973 when she was retired. The ferry service was made redundant in 1981 when the Humber Bridge was opened. She was towed to London where she first became a floating art gallery and then in 1982 a restaurant ship. She is still a restaurant ship moored on the Victoria Embankment but over the intervening years she has lost her paddle boxes and has been painted light blue. The photograph below was taken in the late 1970s when the Tattershall Castle was a floating art gallery.