White Funnel Steamers. A photoghraphic legacy – Collard, Chris Bestseller

The White Funnel Fleet of P&A Campbell had a long and successful association with England’s south coast, with the company’s Bristol Channel steamer excursions perhaps being their best-known operation. Covering the period from the 1880s to the 1950s, from the tentative beginnings when brothers Alexander and Peter Campbell took up the challenge of the busy and tempestuous Bristol Channel, this beautifully illustrated history – using many rare and previously unpublished images from the archives of the Paddle S…