A close port bow view of the passenger ferry/excursion steamer Walton Belle (1897) with a full load of passengers. Her bow and most of her stern are out of the picture, as is the top of her mast. She is alongside an unidentified Thames pleasure steamer that is just beginning to pull away from her. The photographer is on board the departing vessel, looking aft and to starboard from the forecastle deck ahead of the paddle sponson. The negative is a little distorted.