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,

1905

Harbour Master's office

c. 1895

Street view

1887

Poverty

1903

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

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

People asleep on the escalators at Piccadilly Tube Station

1940

Boy in a Bookstore Destroyed After an Air Strike

1936

Jesse Owens after winning four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

1940

Marriage of Tom Dowling and Martha Cohan by Father Finn

1939

London Underground workers studying tickets

1940

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

1938

Charing Cross Road with the Hippodrome and Leicester Square station

1936

May Day demonstration

1936

Fog in London.

c. 1933

The daily grind of Life in London

1935

London celebrate the Silver Jubilee of King George V

1934

The George V King's Christmas broadcast, 1934

1925

Twenties glamour

1935

Sikh men outside the entrance to Hyde Park Corner

1936

Pidgeons

1940

A Messerschmitt on a London Street

1931

Mahatma Gandhi in London

1932

Ex‑King Alfonso XIII of Spain in London Exile

1931

East End crowd gathers to witness the arrival of Mahatma Gandhi

1932

Raining in Trafalgar Square

c. 1935

Woman selling hot chestnuts in Soho

c. 1922

Charing Cross Station & Hotel

1923

Cannon Street Railway Bridge

1928

Dolores del Rio - Victoria Station

1930

A Toy Factory in London

1924

Blackfriars Underground station

1929

Construction workers taking lunch break

1933

Double-Decker Bus Stability Demonstration