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.

1965

Whitechapel Road

1957

The longest bus route in the world

1940

A German Heinkel He 111 bomber over the Surrey Commercial Docks

c. 1921

Throgmorton St

1966

MicroTV

1917

Window Washers

1954

A Young Boy Wearing An Indian Headdress

c. 1935

Woman selling hot chestnuts in Soho

1918

Hijacked German Planes Over London

1947

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

1898

Walter Rothschild's crew, drawn by zebras

1948

Swimming Team at the 1948 Olympics

1958

Alfred Hitchcock

c. 1933

Police Officer and a Tower Guard in London

1957

Photo of Sophia Loren in London

1895

Attempt to Rescue Psychiatric Patient Down Tree

1940

Milkman during The London Blitz

1900

Shoe Shop in London

1910

Houses of Parliament

1920

People in the Middle of Big Ben

1968

The Girl on the Bike

1938

A Boy Helps His Friend Put On Hitler's Mask

1935

Burmese long-necked girls and a police officer

1944

Evacuating a Girl from a Destroyed House

1950

Sewer before work

1916

MANOR PARK

1954

Haile Selassie and Winston Churchill

1968

Brigitte Bardot at a London Pub

1930

A Portable Library

c. 1881

Barges at Alchin’s wharf

1930

The Stage of Marketing Evolution

1930

Portable Library

1880

Mother and daughter watch a tall ship

c. 1955

Coventry Street

1940

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

1953

Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

1941

Everyday Life

1843

The Nelson Column, Trafalgar Square

1969

Swinging London

1893

Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas