Putney Bridge - the return: 1872 Frame:black Bayswater Turnpike

Bayswater Turnpike

a celebrated refreshment lodge where syllabub and cheesecake could be had can be seen in the distance

by Lower Thames Street

Couples on the dodgems ride

the 'locomotive engine house' and the 'chimnies of Stationary Engine House'

Putney Bridge - the return: 1872 Frame:black Bayswater TurnpikeAn illustration of the Boat Race at Putney Bridge from 'London, a Pilgrimage' by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Dor, 1872. Jerrold describes the scene, with the Oxford and Cambridge rowers approaching 'amid frantic shouting, amid a snow storm of pocket handkerchiefs and delirious ravings of purple faced betting men'. The rowers are followed by a 'helter skelter' of steamers 'hidden under their human burden and gay with bunting'. On the bridge the