East Molesey, Steamboats In The Lock 1896
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The enormous popularity of messing about on the River Thames during the Victorian era is demonstrated in this scene of the crowded lock at Molesey, just upstream from Hampton Court; it had been linked to London by railway in 1849, making it easily accessible from the capital. In his comic novel Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K Jerome vividly describes such a scene as this. Two apprehensive domestic servants, seated in the stern of a steam launch, contemplate the task of serving a waterborne picnic meal from the array of baskets around them.
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