Eastman Photographic Materials Company (later Kodak Ltd), 41-43 Clerkenwell Road, London: the boardroom (1898). Main image probably early 1900s.
Category - Buildings
The Jewel Tower at the Tower of London from Old and New London by W Thornbury.
St Andrew’s Chruch, Holborn from Snow Hill, London in 1850
London skyline from the Monument – image made from stitching together two old postcards.
Louis H. Grimshaw (1870 – 1943) – The son of the artist John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893), Louis Grimshaw was born in Leeds and brought up at the family home, Knostrop Hall, a subject often depicted by his...
Statue of George I and Hogarth’s House, 1790
The Cock and Magpie, Drury Lane, London, 1840. Scanned from ‘Old and New London – Its History, its people and its places’, published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.
Waithman’s Shop, London – Porters of Irish Linens Calico Prints. Scanned from ‘Old and New London – Its History, its people and its places’, published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.
6 breathtaking scenes from the state funeral of the Duke of Wellington, London 1852
Above: Fleet Street – The Civic Authorities in the procession On 18 November 1852, The Duke of Wellington, was laid to rest in St Paul’s Cathedral. He died on 14 September, aged 83. Over a million lined the route...
The Royal Courts of Justice, commonly called the Law Courts, is a court building in London which houses both the High Court and Court of Appeal of England and Wales. Designed by George Edmund Street, who died before it was...
The old fish shop by Temple Bar, 1846. Scanned from ‘Old and New London – Its History, its people and its places’, published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. 1878.
Kensal House, London, 1938
Kensal House, London, 1938 by Edith Tudor-Hart.
Victorian Print – Garden Party Buckingham Palace, London, 1871 – Double Page From The Illustrated London News.
Jerrold and Doré were both transfixed by the deprivation, squalor and wretchedness of the lives of the poor, even though they realised that London was changing and some of the worst social evils were beginning to be...
‘The warehouse-men pause aloft on their landing-stages, book in hand, to contemplate us … The man bending beneath an immense sack turns up his eyes from under his burden, and appears pleased that he has disturbed...