The MV Royal Iris, which has been laid up on the Thames at Woolwich since 2002, is looking in an evermore sorry state after a fire in April 2025.
The ship, built on the Clyde, was one of the ferries across the Mersey from 1951 until 1991. In its hey day it included a dancehall where the Beatles, Gerry & the Pacemakers and other Merseybeat bands played. After it retired there were various plans to convert it into a floating nightclub that never materialised and it has been left getting increasingly derelict by the Thames-side Studios (Warspite Road SE18), opposite the Silvertown Tate & Lyle works.
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That's tragic. Very sorry to it in this condition. I thought it was bad in 2010!
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