Looking southwest from Lower Custom House Stairs 20th century 50.82/1115 Age from 3 years

Age from 3 years

Twenty years later this stretch of Thames was transformed by the Victoria Embankment

the Sale Room

No painting of the subject has been traced but is possibly by the Swiss artist Jacques-Laurent Agasse

George Davison Reid took this photo from the Strand

Looking southwest from Lower Custom House Stairs 20th century 50.82/1115 Age from 3 yearsLooking southwest from Lower Custom House Stairs. George Davison Reid photographed this scene looking upstream from Lower Custom House Stairs, near Traitors' Gate. Causeways and stairs lined the Thames riverfront, enabling watermen to ferry river workers and passengers in their boats. During the 1930s, Custom House Quay was home to the Dutch company of William H Muller. Steamers carried freight and passengers from there towards Rotterdam. Reid