Leonard Bentley
Lambeth Pier
This is an anonymously published undivided back postcard showing Lambeth Palace from the Lambeth suspension bridge looking east. The Thames paddle steamer that has just arrived at Lambeth Pier is the River Thames Steamboat Company’s “Dahlia”, one of the flower boats. The flower boats were unique on the Thames because they were double enders, that is, a bow and rudder at both ends which made them very manoeuvrable. The “Dahlia” was built at Blackwall in 1845 and was originally owned by the London and Westminster Steamboat Company, during its working life the boat was owned by successive companies until it was removed from the Mercantile Navy list in 1890. The River Thames Steamboat Company owned the boat between 1885 and 1889.
Lambeth Pier
This is an anonymously published undivided back postcard showing Lambeth Palace from the Lambeth suspension bridge looking east. The Thames paddle steamer that has just arrived at Lambeth Pier is the River Thames Steamboat Company’s “Dahlia”, one of the flower boats. The flower boats were unique on the Thames because they were double enders, that is, a bow and rudder at both ends which made them very manoeuvrable. The “Dahlia” was built at Blackwall in 1845 and was originally owned by the London and Westminster Steamboat Company, during its working life the boat was owned by successive companies until it was removed from the Mercantile Navy list in 1890. The River Thames Steamboat Company owned the boat between 1885 and 1889.