Old pictures of Blackheath

c. 1890

Blackheath Village

1865

Market Court at Kensington.

1968

A police camera overlooking a street in Croydon

c. 1960

Fog

1866

Building the Metropolitan Underground Railway

1943

H. G. Wells

1965

Londoners watching Winston Churchill's funeral

1858

Dickens at his desk

c. 1845

Earliest known photograph of Victoria, here with her eldest daughter, Victoria

1887

The Aldgate Pump.

1877

Street locksmith

1843

The Nelson Column, Trafalgar Square

1889

Oscar Wilde by W. & D. Downey of Ebury Street

1962

The Peel P500

1954

Barrel organ player.

1951

Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, and Katharine Hepburn

1973

IRA Car Bombing in London

1858

Florence Nightingale by Henry Hering

c. 1891

Rudyard Kipling (right) with his father John Lockwood Kipling

1876

Two Sailors head down the Thames river in a barge

1945

V-2 rocket in London