Preston Pub Sign Study The Princess Alice

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A disappointing words only sign that ought to use a portrait of the young Princess. It is a pub named after the second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, who lived between 1843 and 1888, when she died of Diphtheria. She was a very active supporter of Crimean War field hospitals and the work of Florence Nightingale. A Thames Pleasure Cruiser and paddle steamer named after her sank in a collision on the river with a large dredger in 1865 killing over 650 passengers. It was very similar in circumstances to the Marchioness disaster in 1989 which killed 51 revellers. A decent pub that ought to make more of its history. Arthur Chappell