Old pictures of Spitalfields and Banglatown

1887

Poverty

c. 1895

Street view

1903

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

1951

Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, and Katharine Hepburn

c. 1870

St John’s Gate

c. 1954

Shop

1870

King George V of the United Kingdom as a boy

1966

Black Lion Yard

1952

Night Time Coffee.

1950

Charles and his mother

1944

Hemingway in a hospital bed after party with Robert Capa

c. 1855

St Paul's Cathedral

c. 1960

Fog

1916

Women tar spraying the road

1889

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

1877

London nomads

c. 1890

Gandhi as a law student

1864

Marx with his daughters and Engels

1858

Photo of Alice Liddell taken by Lewis Carroll

1952

Prince Charles

1880

Mother and daughter watch a tall ship

1941

Towell service

1975

Untitled photo by Mario de Biasi

1893

Arthur Conan Doyle by Herbert Rose Barraud

1844

View of the city

1965

Londoners watching Winston Churchill's funeral

1882

KARL MARX OLD

c. 1912

Eltham High Street

1958

Police with radar

c. 1890

H. G. WELLS

1839

WHITE HALL

1939

Huge queues at Liverpool Street

1967

Mom with her psychedelic baby pram

1956

A London Bookstore in 1956

1941

Snow in Oxford Street

1866

Building the Metropolitan Underground Railway

c. 1891

Rudyard Kipling (right) with his father John Lockwood Kipling

1862

Building the Metropolitan Railway.

1946

Tram Off The Rails

1865

Market Court at Kensington.

1859

First Photograph of the Parliament

1887

The Aldgate Pump.

1945

Celebrating the end of World War II