This lantern slide, “Embarkation Scene (1915-1919?),” shows a crowd of people standing on the docks and waiting to board a ship. On the right edge, passengers lean over the ship’s side to watch the group. This slide is part of an unnumbered collection of lantern slides depicting scenes of World War I, and its caption reads "The family boat from Tilbury. Embarkation Scene.”
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Tilbury is a town in the borough of Thurrock, Essex, England, and sits on the northern bank of the Thames river. This image was likely taken at the Port of Tilbury, which is currently one of Britain’s three major container ports and which once contained a passenger landing stage served by the railway. The Tilbury Riverside Station was first built as part of the London Tilbury & Southend Railway developments of 1854, with a landing stage facility, so that rail passengers could join the ferry to either Gravesend or passenger liners for more distant journeys. Soon the East and West India Docks Company realized that a dock downstream would be more efficient in turn round speed of cargo boats, and they completed construction in 1886.
Written in the frame of the Lantern Slide: The family boat from Tilbury. Embarkation Scene;
Part of the Australian Y.M.C.A. WWI Lantern Slide Series
