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

1969

Swinging London

1891

Traffic on London Bridge

1947

Queen Elizabeth II's Wedding Cake

1939

Actress Phyllis Gordon with her tame cheetah

1920

Vintage Fruit Vending Machine in London

1896

Trafalgar Square

1895

Attempt to Rescue Psychiatric Patient Down Tree

1946

TRAM ACCIDENT

c. 1952

BEACH IN TAMESIS RIVERSIDE

c. 1933

The daily grind of Life in London

1956

Queen Elizabeth meets Marilyn Monroe

c. 1935

Woman selling hot chestnuts in Soho

1893

Victoria in her official Diamond Jubilee photograph by W. & D. Downey

1895

Queen Victoria and the Munshi Abdul Karim

1940

Air raid: People asleep on the platform of Holborn

1972

Actress Jenny Claire Poses with Her Car

1957

Photo of Sophia Loren in London

1924

The first ever telephone box in London

1935

Burmese long-necked girls and a police officer

c. 1933

Police Officer and a Tower Guard in London

1957

Mujeres modelando camisones

1962

Good old London

1917

Early Electric Car Charging in London

1930

Damaged Figures at Madame Tussauds Museum

1933

Double-Decker Bus Stability Demonstration

1910

Bun Seller

1954

East End Tango

1960

Queen Elizabeth II welcomes from the balcony

1936

May Day demonstration

1935

London celebrate the Silver Jubilee of King George V

1908

High Jump at the London Olympics

1863

Lewis Carroll

1966

MicroTV

1943

Soviet Ambassador Cuts Bars of USSR Embassy for Metal

1930

Portable Library

1932

An ice cream seller

1903

Perfume Salon in London

1940

Bookstore ruined by an air raid.

1950

Sewer before work

1908

G.K. Chesterton at the age of 17