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.
South-East view of London in 1550 from an engraving by Wood, in Mr Crace’s collection. Scanned from ‘Old and New London – Its History, its people and its places’, published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.
London Bridge in 1872 by Doré
‘Unchanging London’ London Bridge as Doré saw it in 1872.
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.
Here are 30 beautiful London Underground advertising posters from the 1910s to 1970s.
The streets in London were dark and had the shortage and poor quality of artificial light. It had been recognized for centuries that the coming of darkness to the unlit streets of a town brought a heightened threat of...
Kensal House, London, 1938
Kensal House, London, 1938 by Edith Tudor-Hart.
St. Paul’s Cathedral from Bankside, 1894 by Louis Grimshaw.
Victorian Print – Garden Party Buckingham Palace, London, 1871 – Double Page From The Illustrated London News.
The image shown here depicts the theatre in the early 19th century, at a time when the theatrical business was booming. In the 1780s German tourist Sophie Van La Roche described a visit to Sadler’s Wells in colourful...
Fleet Street in 1924.
The frequent and sudden changes of temperature in the last few weeks have made an extraordinary difference in the aspects of London street-traffic from day to day. We lately gave an illustration of the effects of a hard...
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...