Riverside, Preston c. 1901
At the riverside in 1901. The group of young girls at left are seen passing John Atkinson's Pleasure Boat Hotel just downstream from the Continental. The former hotel still exists as two attached houses but the boat house on the right of the property with the decorative barge boards and finials has since been demolished. Also of interest is the steel girder railway bridge seen here under construction. The bridge would open to rail traffic in 1902 and was part of the new formations on the west side of the station. Directly behind the young boy seated on the bank is John Crook's boat hire pontoon, where for a couple of pennies you could hire one of a fleet of rowing boats and spend a pleasant hour or two messing about on the river.
Magic Lantern Slide. Image courtesy of C.M. Halse
Riverside, Preston c. 1901
At the riverside in 1901. The group of young girls at left are seen passing John Atkinson's Pleasure Boat Hotel just downstream from the Continental. The former hotel still exists as two attached houses but the boat house on the right of the property with the decorative barge boards and finials has since been demolished. Also of interest is the steel girder railway bridge seen here under construction. The bridge would open to rail traffic in 1902 and was part of the new formations on the west side of the station. Directly behind the young boy seated on the bank is John Crook's boat hire pontoon, where for a couple of pennies you could hire one of a fleet of rowing boats and spend a pleasant hour or two messing about on the river.
Magic Lantern Slide. Image courtesy of C.M. Halse