Old pictures of Greater London

c. 1890

H. G. WELLS

1858

Photo of Alice Liddell taken by Lewis Carroll

1863

Lewis Carroll

1934

The George V King's Christmas broadcast, 1934

1926

Imperial Conference: George V and the prime ministers of the Empire

1893

Wedding of George V of the United Kingdom and Princess Mary of Teck

1870

King George V of the United Kingdom as a boy

1893

Arthur Conan Doyle by Herbert Rose Barraud

1908

G.K. Chesterton at the age of 17

c. 1933

Kipling late in his life, portrait by Elliott & Fry

c. 1891

Rudyard Kipling (right) with his father John Lockwood Kipling

1864

Marx with his daughters and Engels

1882

KARL MARX OLD

1861

Karl Marx

1893

Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas

1889

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

1881

Oscar Wilde by Elliott & Fry

1858

Dickens at his desk

1893

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

1895

Queen Victoria and the Munshi Abdul Karim

1863

Victoria and John Brown

1857

Albert, Victoria and their nine children

c. 1845

Earliest known photograph of Victoria, here with her eldest daughter, Victoria

1954

Elizabeth II and Haile Selassie

1926

Alfred Hitchcock and Reville wedding

c. 1908

Florence Nightingale. Photograph by Millbourn

1858

Florence Nightingale by Henry Hering

1943

Charles De Gaulle y su mujer, Yvonne

c. 1890

Gandhi as a law student

1932

EX REY ALFONSO XIII EN EL EXILIO

1897

Charlie Chaplin at the Central London District School

1949

Sir Winston Churchill speaking at Blythe Road

1897

Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee

1947

Dignitaries pose in front of the 100,000th temporary house

1912

Rabindranath Tagore

1931

East End crowd gathers to witness the arrival of Mahatma Gandhi

1958

Electric Cinema on the Portobello Road

1895

Bank Underground Station in Throgmorton Street

1866

working on the Metropolitan Underground Railway at Craven Hill

1935

Sikh men outside the entrance to Hyde Park Corner