Old pictures of Chawton

1857

High Street

1857

Lewis Carroll

1907

Twain in academic regalia for acceptance of the D.Litt. degree awarded him by Oxford University

1954

Little Benny Merrell aged six takes some of the ancient wood bricks

1893

Cousins

1940

London Library Bombed

1960

The Red Lion pub

1878

Georgie and Amy Pirkis with their amah

c. 1895

Commercial Road,

1921

A train passes through densely packed housing

1903

J Plater’s Cart, Van & Carriage Works

c. 1895

Hyde Park Corner

1910

Edwardian ladies board a taxi

1930

Motorcyclist Triss Shar

1942

Princess Elizabeth

1948

Charles Philip Arthur George

1951

King George VI with his grandson Prince Charles

1934

The start of the tricycle race

1910

Testing gas pressure in street lighting.

1916

The timber-framed Yelde Hall

1948

Elizabeth Taylor, aged 16, looking over the Thames