Putney Bridge - the return: 1872 Frame:black a celebrated refreshment lodge where

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

but as rents increased

Tea merchants are also shown sampling the tea - which is unlikely to have happened until after the cargo had been properly warehoused

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

by Lower Thames Street

Putney Bridge - the return: 1872 Frame:black a celebrated refreshment lodge whereAn 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