Old pictures of Spitalfields and Banglatown

1887

Poverty

c. 1895

Street view

1903

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

1912

Lost London.

1957

The longest bus route in the world

1965

Whitechapel Road

c. 1921

Throgmorton St

c. 1894

A yeoman of the guard (Beefeater)

1902

Two lads in 1902, London.

1966

Black Lion Yard

1941

Towell service

1908

G.K. Chesterton at the age of 17

1909

Arch at Shepherd’s Place

1923

Ernest Shackleton

1907

Commercial Street East London

1939

Huge queues at Liverpool Street

1931

East End crowd gathers to witness the arrival of Mahatma Gandhi

1952

Night Time Coffee.

c. 1910

Hammersmith Broadway

1954

Kids out of school

1863

Victoria and John Brown

1956

A London Bookstore in 1956

1936

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

1949

Sir Winston Churchill speaking at Blythe Road

1940

People asleep on the escalators at Piccadilly Tube Station

1940

ENSA concert party in Aldwych Underground Station

1963

Winston Churchill Leaving Hospital

1926

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

1925

Twenties glamour

1973

IRA Car Bombing in London

1844

View of the city

1946

Town Hall in Croydon

1969

Free Rolling Stones Concert in Hyde Park

1930

Mother and Child in a Moto Stroller

1938

Charing Cross Road with the Hippodrome and Leicester Square station

1920

Boxing Kids

1965

Londoners watching Winston Churchill's funeral

1940

Ruined after The Blitz

1962

The Peel P500

c. 1890

An impoverished family

c. 1891

Rudyard Kipling (right) with his father John Lockwood Kipling

1928

Dolores del Rio - Victoria Station

1943

H. G. Wells