In 1949 Phoenix House Ltd. published their Air-Photo Atlas of London. The aerial maps provide a "street guide from the air" to post-war...

This is the index to the 1949, Phoenix House Ltd., Air-Photo Atlas of London. For the complete set of maps & images from the atlas please...

A celebrated series of postcards depicting London Life by renowned publisher Charles Skilton crop up regularly on eBay and the like. The...

The London Post is a set collecting card game, published by Jaques & Son, Hatton Green London c 1870 64 Cards,

The jigsaw was manufactured for Cunard White Star Limited by The Chad Valley Co. Ltd., Harbourne, England, 1936.

Lobo, the London Underground themed card game was published by Thomas De La Rue in 1932. LOBO is the first game I know of based on the...

This is what being a telephone engineer involved in 1930s London. Twice a year the steel wires which support London's telephone cables -...

High above London, men and women were at play in 1938. Back then one could shoot guns and play golf on a rooftop. Here are some...

In the 1920s and 30s a Scottish shepherd grazed his sheep in Hyde Park. George Donald travelled down each year from Aberdeen together...

A selection of adverts from The Official Guide to Holborn 3re 1931 (published by J. Burrow & Co, Cheltenham). I enjoy the insights these...

Time Out reaches its Golden Jubilee on 12th August 2018. On this day back in 1968 the first edition was published in London. A radical...

Well, according to George Bernard Shaw, the famous “Wedding Cake” statue, part of the memorial to Queen Victoria, would be a contender....

In 1861 this curious piece of street furniture was installed on Piccadilly. It stood there for over a hundred and fifty years. In the...

In the early 1950s Charles Skilton issued a set of six postcards entitled "America in London" promising them to be "Of interest to all...

In 1947, 110 would be Royal Marine Commandos embarked upon a nationwide, five-day long, “personal initiative” test. Taking the initiative...

On November 18th 1904 Miss Gwen James of Glamorganshire received an unusually large quantity of post. Through her door at 22, Regent...

In 1971 the first national postal strike took place in the UK. In those days the Post Office had an absolute monopoly on the delivery of...

In 1944 the British Council produced a souvenir photography book solely for overseas forces stationed in the UK - This is London. The 40...

In 1933 Mr Norbury, an amateur photographer and chicken keeper, invented the world’s first security camera in London. His invention was...

Tower Bridge was designed to reconcile the conflicting interests of road and river traffic at a time when London was the world's most...