Old pictures of East London

1946

Small but Daring

c. 1883

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

c. 1954

Street in Stepney with power station,

c. 1895

Street view

1887

Poverty

1903

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

1912

Lost London.

1940

A German Heinkel He 111 bomber over the Surrey Commercial Docks

1957

The longest bus route in the world

1965

Whitechapel Road

c. 1890

Sir Walter Raleigh’s home at Blackwall

c. 1894

A yeoman of the guard (Beefeater)

c. 1921

Throgmorton St

1916

Lady Florence Norman, a suffragette.

c. 1955

Coventry Street

c. 1922

Ice cream vendor

1940

After the German bombings

1933

Double-Decker Bus Stability Demonstration

1940

Milkman during The London Blitz

1944

Winston Churchill with His Daughter at a Military Field Exercise

1936

Fog in London.

1940

A Messerschmitt on a London Street

c. 1936

Clapham South Underground station

1935

London celebrate the Silver Jubilee of King George V

1939

London Underground workers studying tickets

1936

May Day demonstration

1937

LMS Locomotive

1940

Marriage of Tom Dowling and Martha Cohan by Father Finn

1927

BBC Sound Effects Department

1938

Charing Cross Road with the Hippodrome and Leicester Square station

1925

Flower seller at the Eros Statue

1940

People asleep on the escalators at Piccadilly Tube Station

1940

Boy in a Bookstore Destroyed After an Air Strike

1935

Padaung women as 'giraffe women' in a circus show

1929

Children Born on Christmas Day

1935

Sikh men outside the entrance to Hyde Park Corner

c. 1935

Woman selling hot chestnuts in Soho

1931

Mahatma Gandhi in London

1932

A female firefighting team

1940

Ruined after The Blitz

1936

Jesse Owens after winning four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

1958

Police with radar