Voyage of Woodcote (1924) on the River Thames

A card bound loose-leaf album containing 28 photogrpahic prints relating to a voyage of the Woodcote (1924), a Wandsworth, Wimbledon, and Epsom District Gas Company (later in 1931 changed to Wandsworth & District Gas Company) collier.

Captions listed from the album:

1. S.S. Woodcote & discharging pontoon at Wandsworth
2. Wandsworth as a Shipping Port [port bow view alongside discharging pontoon]
3. Wandsworth Bridge [starboard broadside view of Woodcote passing underneath]
4. Wandsworth Bridge [Port bow view of Woodcote passing underneath]
5. West London Extension Bridge [Starboard bow view of Woodcote passing underneath]
6. West London Extension Bridge [Starboard bow view of Woodcote passing underneath, slightly distant]
7. Battersea Bridge [Starboard bow view of Woodcote passing underneath]
8. Battersea Bridge [Starboard bow view of Woodcote passing underneath]
9. Albert Suspension Bridge
10. Chelsea Suspension Bridge, Victoria
11. Victoria Railway Bridge
12. Grosvenor Railway Bridge [Port bow view, just having passed underneath]
13. Vauxhall Bridge [port broadside view, stern obscured by bridge span]
14. Vauxhall Bridge [Starboard bow view, stern obscured by bridge span]
15. Lambeth Bridge [Starboard bow view]
16. Lambeth Bridge [Port quarter view]
17. Westminster Bridge [Starboard bow view just emerging]
18. Westminster Bridge [Stern view passing underneath]
19. Hungerford Bridge [ passing beneath]
20. Waterloo Bridge [Note funnel hinged back]
21. Waterloo Bridge [Starboard bow view]
22. Blackfriars Bridge [Post bow view]
23. Southwick Bridge [Port bow view]
24. Southwick Bridge [Starboard bow view]
25. Cannon Street Railway Bridge [Starboard bow view, Station building in background]
26. Cannon Street Railway Bridge [Port bow view]
27. London Bridge [Starboard broadside – note that Adelaide House is not complete. Completed in 1925]
28. London Bridge [Port bow view]

Object Details

ID: ALB0820
Type: Photograph album
Display location: Not on display
Date made: circa 1924
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 201 mm x 295 mm x 15 mm
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