Leonard Bentley
Westminster Pier
This is a Stengel & Co undivided back postcard printed in Dresden showing Westminster Pier and New Scotland Yard together with Montague House and Whitehall Court. The photograph dates from about 1894 but was published around 1898. New Scotland Yard is four to five years old at this point and has yet to be expanded by the addition of the south annexe which was built in 1902-1906 and named Scotland House. The Paddle Steamer coming into Westminster Pier is a Victoria Steamboat Association paddle steamer, that company only lasted from 1890 until 1896. The steamer looks like one of the boats built for the River Thames Steamboat Company by the Samuda Bros at Poplar in 1889, the River Thames Steamboat Company was taken over by the Victoria Steamboat Association in 1890. The three boats were The Shah, Kaiser and H.M. Stanley.
Westminster Pier
This is a Stengel & Co undivided back postcard printed in Dresden showing Westminster Pier and New Scotland Yard together with Montague House and Whitehall Court. The photograph dates from about 1894 but was published around 1898. New Scotland Yard is four to five years old at this point and has yet to be expanded by the addition of the south annexe which was built in 1902-1906 and named Scotland House. The Paddle Steamer coming into Westminster Pier is a Victoria Steamboat Association paddle steamer, that company only lasted from 1890 until 1896. The steamer looks like one of the boats built for the River Thames Steamboat Company by the Samuda Bros at Poplar in 1889, the River Thames Steamboat Company was taken over by the Victoria Steamboat Association in 1890. The three boats were The Shah, Kaiser and H.M. Stanley.