oldgit
Well-Known Member
Just been perusing and book about the early Thames with lots and lots of pictures.
Photographs all from a collection started by photogapher Francis Frith. Earned his fortune as grocer then sold up and devoted his life to recording history with a camera at the turn of the last century.
www.francisfrith.co.uk.
There were 11 tons of glass plates in his library when he died.
Worth a look.
In the text it mentions that there was "a certain amount of tension between the skiffs and sculls on the river and the commercial trip boats" . Who would have thought it. ?
For Medway folks
The Kent Museum Achive has lots of pix .
The old lock at Maidstone. Location now known as Lockmeadow. You can with care still see remains of old lock chamber. The river was once tidal up to this point.
Kent Photo Archive
Photographs all from a collection started by photogapher Francis Frith. Earned his fortune as grocer then sold up and devoted his life to recording history with a camera at the turn of the last century.
www.francisfrith.co.uk.
There were 11 tons of glass plates in his library when he died.
Worth a look.
In the text it mentions that there was "a certain amount of tension between the skiffs and sculls on the river and the commercial trip boats" . Who would have thought it. ?
For Medway folks
The Kent Museum Achive has lots of pix .
The old lock at Maidstone. Location now known as Lockmeadow. You can with care still see remains of old lock chamber. The river was once tidal up to this point.
Kent Photo Archive