Leonard Bentley
Cannon Street
This is an H. Vertigan & Co postcard, printed in Saxony and distributed from their City of London premises. The image shows the after dark scene from the southbank looking north towards Cannon Street Railway Bridge and Cannon Street Station. There is no clue as to the artist but he or she has also captured either the Royal Sovereign or Koh-I-Noor paddle steamer moored in the middle of the River Thames. Both steamers belonged to the New Palace Steamer Company and operated from the Old Swan Pier, just upstream of London Bridge, and serviced the estuary towns in Essex and Kent. Both boats were built on the Clyde by the Fairfield shipbuilding and Engineering Company, they were very similar but I cannot differentiate from this postcard. I think that this is after 1903 because of the divided back but before 1910, British postcard publishers ceased using German printers about this time.
Cannon Street
This is an H. Vertigan & Co postcard, printed in Saxony and distributed from their City of London premises. The image shows the after dark scene from the southbank looking north towards Cannon Street Railway Bridge and Cannon Street Station. There is no clue as to the artist but he or she has also captured either the Royal Sovereign or Koh-I-Noor paddle steamer moored in the middle of the River Thames. Both steamers belonged to the New Palace Steamer Company and operated from the Old Swan Pier, just upstream of London Bridge, and serviced the estuary towns in Essex and Kent. Both boats were built on the Clyde by the Fairfield shipbuilding and Engineering Company, they were very similar but I cannot differentiate from this postcard. I think that this is after 1903 because of the divided back but before 1910, British postcard publishers ceased using German printers about this time.