Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese of London City. The Literateurs' Haunt for 300 Years or The Book of The Cheese This book was published around a...

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...

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

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

Londoners have always prided themselves on the enormous diversity and quantity of free sights to be enjoyed in this great city. Today we...

I recently came across a book containing views of Edwardian London that I hadn't seen before on the net. Three Hundred and Fifty Views -...

In 1936 a Bauhaus master turned his attention to London Street Markets. László Moholy-Nagy provided 64 superb images for Mary Benedetta's...

The British Museum have just opened a new, free, exhibition "The Horse: from Arabia to Royal Ascot". The exhibition seeks to demonstrate...

In 1930 the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries published a report on London Markets. The report described all the principal London...

Between 1901 and 1905 a large area of Central London was demolished to make way for Kingsway and Aldwych. Many ancient streets and courts...

In October 1905 King Edward VII officially opened Kingsway and Aldwych; "The largest and most important improvement in London since the...

Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell's classic book on his experience of rough living, was published in 1933. These photos of...

These beautiful photos of London pubs all date from around 1926. These are London pubs as our grandparents and great-grandparents enjoyed th

These images show Tower Bridge under construction in the 1880s. At the offices of one of the original contractors, management had decided...