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Description: | There has been a settlement at Isleworth since Neolithic times. The area became a popular place for Londoners to live in the mid-18th century, when a number of riverside estates were built.
At that time, a common way of travelling into the city from the outskirts was by boat along the Thames. Two ferry services operated from Isleworth, one of which ran until the 1960s.
This view from the first half of the 20th century shows a skiff, the flat-bottomed boat in the bottom right corner, and a number of other small boats.
Isleworth Eyot, shown in this photograph is one of several long narrow islands known as Eyots or Aits along this part of the River Thames which is tidal as far as Teddington Lock. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Environment Transport | Temporal: | 1910-1930 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Creator: | Photographer : W Whiffin | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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