Old pictures of Spitalfields and Banglatown

1887

Poverty

c. 1895

Street view

1903

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

1912

Lost London.

1965

Whitechapel Road

1957

The longest bus route in the world

c. 1921

Throgmorton St

c. 1894

A yeoman of the guard (Beefeater)

1917

Window Washers

1969

Swinging London

1968

Brigitte Bardot at a London Pub

c. 1901

Seven Dials

1935

Padaung women as 'giraffe women' in a circus show

1966

MicroTV

c. 1922

Ice cream vendor

1908

London Fire Brigade

1923

Cannon Street Railway Bridge

c. 1933

Police Officer and a Tower Guard in London

1895

Bank Underground Station in Throgmorton Street

1889

Construction of Tower Bridge

1893

Victoria in her official Diamond Jubilee photograph by W. & D. Downey

1891

Traffic on London Bridge

1939

London Underground workers studying tickets

c. 1881

Barges at Alchin’s wharf

c. 1969

An aerial view of prefabricated houses

1916

MANOR PARK

1890

The traffic on London Bridge.

1938

A Boy Helps His Friend Put On Hitler's Mask

1944

Evacuating a Girl from a Destroyed House

1929

Construction workers taking lunch break

1858

Photo of Alice Liddell taken by Lewis Carroll

1923

Mickey Mouse cartoon

1895

Attempt to Rescue Psychiatric Patient Down Tree

1947

Queen Elizabeth II's Wedding Cake

1936

Pidgeons

1843

The Nelson Column, Trafalgar Square

1948

Swimming Team at the 1948 Olympics

1931

East End crowd gathers to witness the arrival of Mahatma Gandhi

1930

The Stage of Marketing Evolution

1965

Getting Out of the Car

1949

Students at the Royal Academy of Dance

1876

Two Sailors head down the Thames river in a barge

1935

Sikh men outside the entrance to Hyde Park Corner