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

1887

Poverty

c. 1895

Street view

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

1891

Traffic on London Bridge

1906

Early 20th Century Fashion in London

1940

Girl calming doll after the bombing

1950

Judge Evaluating Exhibitor at Cat Show

1943

Soviet Ambassador Cuts Bars of USSR Embassy for Metal

1953

Victoria bus station.

1952

London underground

1925

Twenties glamour

1940

Boy in a Bookstore Destroyed After an Air Strike

c. 1955

Coventry Street

1903

Opening the London County Council (LCC) Tramways

1936

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

1926

Alfred Hitchcock and Reville wedding

1935

Sikh men outside the entrance to Hyde Park Corner

1935

London celebrate the Silver Jubilee of King George V

c. 1922

Ice cream vendor

1862

Chancellor William Ewart Gladstone inspection tour of the Underground line

1935

Padaung women as 'giraffe women' in a circus show

1947

Dignitaries pose in front of the 100,000th temporary house

1944

Evacuating a Girl from a Destroyed House

1897

Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee

1940

People asleep on the escalators at Piccadilly Tube Station

1937

LMS Locomotive

1907

Commercial Street East London

1931

East End crowd gathers to witness the arrival of Mahatma Gandhi

c. 1933

The daily grind of Life in London

1954

East End Tango

1932

A female firefighting team

c. 1952

BEACH IN TAMESIS RIVERSIDE