By Andrew Gladwell

To generations of Londoners, the trip aboard a paddle steamer to the seaside was a traditional and essential part of summer life. By the 1930s sleek new pleasure steamers, luxuriously appointed and reflecting the new age, were being introduced to gradually replace the older paddle steamers. But from the 1950s onwards, many of the old paddle steamers made their way, not down river with a happy complement of passengers, but to the breaker's yard to be quickly scrapped. An era was slowly disappearing.

This book looks at those final years of the General Steam Navigation Company as well as looking at some of the other steamers that plied the London River.

ISBN 0 7524 2351 7, 128 pages, softback.

To buy a signed copy of this book please make a cheque payable to 'Andrew Gladwell' for £14.50 (includes postage & packing) and send to: Andrew Gladwell, 31 Meadow Road, Gravesend, Kent, DA11 7LR