Downstream

In Victorian times this was
the site, just east from here,
of the Princess Alice disaster,
then described as ‘one of the
most fearful disasters of
modern times’ and today as
the largest loss of life in
peacetime Britain. On the
evening of 3 September 1878,
several hundred passengers
were returning from a
‘Moonlight Trip’ from Swan
Pier, near London Bridge, to
the Rosherville Pleasure