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

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

1863

Victoria and John Brown

1954

Kids out of school

1908

G.K. Chesterton at the age of 17

1940

Ruined after The Blitz

c. 1922

Charing Cross Station & Hotel

1932

A female firefighting team

1931

East End crowd gathers to witness the arrival of Mahatma Gandhi

1926

Tram workers queue up for their pay at the tram subway in Kingsway, High Holborn

1907

Commercial Street East London

1940

ENSA concert party in Aldwych Underground Station

1949

Sir Winston Churchill speaking at Blythe Road

1952

Night Time Coffee.

1962

The Peel P500

1923

Ernest Shackleton

1920

Boxing Kids

1929

Mrs R.A. Hopwood with her dogs

c. 1960

Fog

1919

Three female police officers

1926

London Underground Carriage on Street

1909

Arch at Shepherd’s Place

1902

Lady Ottoline Morrell

1920

Boys boxing barefoot while their friends look on

1939

Huge queues at Liverpool Street

1951

Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, and Katharine Hepburn

c. 1954

Shop

c. 1912

Eltham High Street

1858

Florence Nightingale by Henry Hering

1969

Free Rolling Stones Concert in Hyde Park

1908

Oxford Street

1946

Town Hall in Croydon

1925

Twenties glamour

1946

Tram Off The Rails

c. 1890

Gandhi as a law student

1926

Alfred Hitchcock and Reville wedding

1963

Winston Churchill Leaving Hospital

1945

V-2 rocket in London