Edwardians setting off on PS ‘Solway’ for an excursion to Spurn c1905.

An original photograph by an unknown, possibly amateur, photographer.

The iron paddle steamer ‘Solway’ was built by Ramage & Ferguson of Leith in 1886. Her first port of register was Carlisle. She was Grimsby registered from 1897 and was used for Humber excursions to Spurn Head etc. before WW1.

In the 1920s, the ‘Solway’ was working out of Jarrow and was sold for breaking up in 1931.