3-053-636 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Shah on the Mersey, at Liverpool, 1873. 'At five o'clock [the Shah of Persia] was taken to the Prince's Landing Stage, and embarked in one of the Mersey ferry-boats, decorated with bright carpets and silk curtains, and with beautiful hothouse plants and flowers. The rain had ceased, and the Shah was conveyed down the river to New Brighton, passing the large Atlantic steam-ships moored in the Sloyne, and getting a sight of the masts of shipping in the vast range of docks, both on the Liverpool and Birkenhead sides'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.