Old pictures of Tower Hamlets

1946

Small but Daring

c. 1894

A yeoman of the guard (Beefeater)

c. 1954

Street in Stepney with power station,

1887

Poverty

c. 1895

Street view

1903

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

1912

Lost London.

c. 1883

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

c. 1890

Sir Walter Raleigh’s home at Blackwall

1957

The longest bus route in the world

1965

Whitechapel Road

1940

A German Heinkel He 111 bomber over the Surrey Commercial Docks

c. 1921

Throgmorton St

1935

London celebrate the Silver Jubilee of King George V

1936

Demonstration of the Unemployed

1932

Ex‑King Alfonso XIII of Spain in London Exile

1935

Sikh men outside the entrance to Hyde Park Corner

1931

Mahatma Gandhi in London

1927

BBC Sound Effects Department

1936

May Day demonstration

1929

Construction workers taking lunch break

1933

Double-Decker Bus Stability Demonstration

1932

A female firefighting team

1935

Padaung women as 'giraffe women' in a circus show

1936

Pidgeons

1910

Bun Seller

1897

Upper Richmond Road

1912

Railway extension at Liverpool Street Station

1930

Mother and Child in a Moto Stroller

1932

An ice cream seller

1934

The George V King's Christmas broadcast, 1934

1929

Mrs R.A. Hopwood with her dogs

1926

Alfred Hitchcock and Reville wedding

1926

Imperial Conference: George V and the prime ministers of the Empire

1924

The first ever telephone box in London

1923

Cannon Street Railway Bridge

1910

Houses of Parliament

1931

East End crowd gathers to witness the arrival of Mahatma Gandhi

1933

Captain Pfeiffer.

1903

Opening the London County Council (LCC) Tramways

1924

Blackfriars Underground station

1863

Lewis Carroll

1918

Hijacked German Planes Over London

1926

The Kids Are Stalking Santa

1924

Farringdon Street

c. 1910

Hammersmith Broadway

1907

Commercial Street East London

1920

Boxing Kids

1926

London Underground Carriage on Street