Old pictures of East London

1946

Small but Daring

c. 1883

Spitalfields at the junction of Commercial St. and Brushfield St.

c. 1954

Street in Stepney with power station,

1903

A portrait of street “urchins” in The East end of London

c. 1895

Street view

1887

Poverty

1912

Lost London.

1940

A German Heinkel He 111 bomber over the Surrey Commercial Docks

1965

Whitechapel Road

1957

The longest bus route in the world

c. 1890

Sir Walter Raleigh’s home at Blackwall

c. 1894

A yeoman of the guard (Beefeater)

c. 1921

Throgmorton St

1940

Air raid: People asleep on the platform of Holborn

1939

London Underground workers studying tickets

1939

Actress Phyllis Gordon with her tame cheetah

1940

ENSA concert party in Aldwych Underground Station

1940

After the German bombings

c. 1936

Clapham South Underground station

1940

People asleep on the escalators at Piccadilly Tube Station

1935

London celebrate the Silver Jubilee of King George V

1936

Pidgeons

1920

Vintage Fruit Vending Machine in London

1940

Milkman during The London Blitz

1938

Charing Cross Road with the Hippodrome and Leicester Square station

1936

Fog in London.

1940

Londoners sleep at a London Underground station to hide from German bombing in September

1940

Marriage of Tom Dowling and Martha Cohan by Father Finn

1929

Children Born on Christmas Day

1926

The Kids Are Stalking Santa

c. 1935

Woman selling hot chestnuts in Soho

1935

Padaung women as 'giraffe women' in a circus show

1933

Captain Pfeiffer.

1932

A female firefighting team

1929

Mrs R.A. Hopwood with her dogs

1934

The George V King's Christmas broadcast, 1934

1911

An elderly couple in Victorian Interior

1936

Demonstration of the Unemployed

1932

Ex‑King Alfonso XIII of Spain in London Exile

1929

Construction workers taking lunch break

1954

East End Tango

c. 1969

An aerial view of prefabricated houses