A nostalgic collection of illustrations that capture the golden era of pleasure steamers on the Thames.

Andrew Gladwell takes us on a journey down the water, exploring the story of the London pleasure steamer.

In August 1812 Henry Bell’s Comet, a revolutionary paddle steamer, made her first journey on the Clyde. This marked the start of extraordinary developments th

Evoking memories of the steamers that once took thousands on their trips to the coastal resorts of Kent and Essex, Andrew Gladwell brings together a fascinating

The collision of the Princess Alice pleasure steamer with the Tyne collier, Bywell Castle, in the Thames in September 1878 resulted in Britain's worst-ever inla