Greater London Council Collection

Ships figureheads over the gate at Castles Shipbreaking Yard, Westminster, London, 1909
Ships figureheads over the gate at Castles Shipbreaking Yard, Baltic Wharf, Millbank, Westminster, London, March 1909. Entrance to the yard, with wooden figures salvaged from ships decorating the sign

Savory & Moores Pharmacy, 143 New Bond Street, London, 1912. Shop front with window display and royal coat of arms over the door indicating by appointment to the royal family

Horse drawn vehicles and barrows in Borough High Street, London, 1904
Horse drawn vehicles, barrows and shop fronts, 309-317 Borough High Street, London, 1904. Men and boys wait with barrows and horse-drawn carts

Crowd outside the closed East India Dock Gates, Poplar, London, 1897. Men wait, locked out of the East India Docks, probably during a strike in which the dock workers demanded fair pay

Dockhead Fire Station, No 8 Wolseley Street, Bermondsey, London, 1929. Fire engines parked inside the fire station

Crystal Palace Station, Crystal Palace Parade, Bromley, London, 1955
Crystal Palace Station, Bromley, London, 1955. Empty platforms and canopy of the disused Crystal Palace (High Level) Station, viewed from the footbridge. Arched walls hold up the glass roof

Men building the Camden Town Sub-Station, London, 1908
Men building the Camden Town Sub-Station, 102-116 Arlington Road, London, 1908. Site of an electricity sub-station with workmen and scaffolding

Lyons Tea Shop in the Strand, London, September 1930
Lyons Corner House & Golden Cross Hotel, 450-460 Strand, London, September 1930

The Cabinet Room at Number 10, Downing Street, London, 1927. Interior with table ready for a meeting, Classical columns, bookshelves and fireplace at the Prime Ministers residence

Crowd of people in the street, Tottenham Court Road, London, 1900
Crowd of people in the street, 1-5 Tottenham Court Road, London, 1900. Children and men standing on a street corner outside a shop. Opposite are the Oxford Theatre and an open-topped double-decker bus

Line of taxis, Abingdon Street, Westminster, London, 1933
Line of taxis, 18-29 Abingdon Street, Westminster, London, 1933. Taxis wait in front of three- and four-storey terraced houses, looking north west

Uncle Toms Cabin tea stall, Wandsworth Road, London, 1909
Uncle Toms Cabin tea stall, 394b Wandsworth Road, London, 1909. Customers stand at a corner tea and coffee stall under the railway bridge

Old Watch House, Upper Thames Street, London, April 1922
Old Watch House, 89 Upper Thames Street, London, April 1922

Splendid Hall for the Deliberations of the Members of the London County Council, c1935. County Hall, on the South Bank of the River Thames in London, was designed by Ralph Knott and opened in 1922

The New Palace on the Thames that is the Headquarters of the London County Council, c1935. County Hall, on the South Bank of the River Thames in London

Kitchen at Admiralty House, Westminster, London, 1934
Kitchen at Admiralty House, Whitehall, Westminster, London, 1934. The kitchen at the residence of the First Lord of the Admiralty

Entrance to the tram tunnel by Waterloo Bridge, London, 1908
Entrance to the tram tunnel by Waterloo Bridge, Victoria Embankment, London, 1908. A single-decker tram by the entrance to the tunnel: double-deckers pass under the bridge. A policeman directs traffic

Nelsons Column with National Service recruitment poster, London, 1939. The poster on the base of the column claims National Service - its up to YOU. St Martin-in-the-Fields is in the background, left

Trafalgar Square with Underground entrance and Admiralty Arch behind, London, 1913. Bowler-hatted office workers by the entrance to the tube at Trafalgar Square

Traffic at Piccadilly Circus, London, 1912. Cars, vans, and an open-topped omnibus in the foreground; pedestrians cross between the traffic, with the statue of Eros in the centre

Huge figureheads at Castles Ship Breaking Yard, Westminster, London, 1909
Huge figureheads at Castles Ship Breaking Yard, 106 Millbank, Westminster, London, March 1909. Male and female figureheads from ships decorate the gate into the breakers yard

Empty streets at Lancaster Place, seen from Waterloo Bridge, London, 1896. Stone balustrades with lampposts leading to wide street of Georgian buildings

Animal skeletons at the Royal College of Surgeons, Westminster, London, 1911
Animal skeletons at museum room 4, Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons, Lincolns Inn Fields, Westminster, London, 1911

Ironmongers shop on Carnaby Street, London, 1944
Ironmongers shop on 37 Carnaby Street, London, 1944. A man looks at the window display in an ironmongers shop with buckets, lengths of hose and other items on the pavement and hung from hooks

Advertisements at Cambridge Circus, Westminster, London, 1945
Advertisements at Midland Bank, Cambridge Circus, Westminster, London, 1945. Building on the south east corner covered with advertisements for Black and White whisky

Rear entrance to the Royal Society of Arts, Westminster, London, 1936
Rear entrance to the Royal Society of Arts, Adelphi Terrace, Westminster, London, 1936. Rear elevation with the entrance to Adelphi Arches underneath

Hachettes book shop on the corner of King William Street, London, 1930
Hachettes book shop on the corner of Adelaide Street and William IV Street, London, 1930. Georgian building with cylindrical corner section and Classical columns

Busy street scene, St Johns Road, Clapham Junction, London, 1912. People crowding the pavements outside shop windows

Pedestrians outside DH Evans, Oxford Street, London, 1903
Pedestrians outside DH Evans, 292-320 Oxford Street, London, 1903. People walking in front of the shop under sun blinds, with a horse-drawn double-decker bus and carriages passing in the road

Traffic at Oxford Circus, London, 1910. Open-topped double-decker horse-drawn buses, motor cabs, cars, horse-drawn carriages and a protruding flag at the junction of Oxford Street and Regent Street

Brickworks, Nine Elms Lane, Battersea, London, August 1906. Rear of the works with workmen standing amongst piles of bricks and tiles. Ships masts on the Thames can be seen behind the buildings

People rushing to get on a trolley bus at 7. 05 am, Tooting Broadway, London, April 1912
People rushing to get on a trolley bus at 7.05 am, Tooting Broadway, London, April 1912. Early-morning commuters catch a trolley bus to Charing Cross

Shops and sign to Putney Roller Skating Rink, Putney Bridge Road, London, 1911. Corner of Putney High Street and Putney Bridge Road looking towards a greengrocers shop

Hay wagons, Whitechapel High Street, London, 1903. Wagons loaded with hay and covered with tarpaulins, parked in front of a bank, houses, warehouses and a vacant site

Advertising hoardings on the wall of a building, Wandsworth, London, 1938
Advertising hoardings on the wall of a building, Nightingale Lane, Wandsworth, London, September 1938. The posters advertise Granada Clapham, Balham Picture House, Gordons Gin, Heinz

Crowd of East End children, Red Lion Street, Wapping, London, 1904. A group of children standing by a horse and cart at the entrance from Tench Street to a narrow lane

Statue of a boy scholar beside the door, Hamlet of Ratcliff Schools, Stepney, London, 1945
Statue of a boy scholar beside the door, Hamlet of Ratcliff Schools, 51 White Horse Road, Stepney, London, 1945. Small sculpture in a Gothic-style niche of a boy in frock coat

Cart laden with sacks, Mansell Street, Stepney, London, 1914. A horse-drawn cart passing Charles Pearson and Son Limited, printers and stationers

Georgian terraced houses and Christ Church, Spitalfields, Stepney, London, 1909
Georgian terraced houses and Christ Church, Fournier Street, Spitalfields, Stepney, London, 1909. Street of three-storey Georgian terraced houses

Pedestrians and trams in Commercial Street, Stepney, London, 1907. People stand in the road outside Spitalfields Market, with two trams going in opposite directions

Crowd outside the Russian Vapour Baths, Brick Lane, Stepney, London, 1904. People stand in the street by the entrance to the baths; the porch

Bombed houses, Trigo Road, Poplar, London, WWII, 1943
Bombed houses, 32-40 Trigo Road, Poplar, London, WWII, 1943. Street of two-storey terraced houses with bay windows. The house on the left has lost its entire front wall

Horse and cart with sacks of vegetables, Bow, London, 1900
Horse and cart with sacks of vegetables, 91-93 Devons Road, Bow, London, 1900. Cart belonging to A.G. Hassell, Pea & Potato salesman with horses waiting outside T Damery confectioner and tobacconist s

Man mooring a barge by a river bank, Poplar, London, 1905. Barge on still water; a single-decker tram passes over the bridge

Traffic on the New Kent Road, Southwark, London, 1947. A tram, buses and cars are caught in traffic congestion near Elephant and Castle looking west from New Kent Road. On the left is a bus stop

Queue of people at a bus stop in the Blackfriars Road, London, 1906. People waiting to get on buses, with a railway bridge and I Cohens warehouse behind at the corner of Southward Road

Barn and farmhouse at Homestall Farm, Peckham Rye, London, 1908. Back of the farmhouse and end of the barn viewed from the south

Crowds of shoppers in Rye Lane at night, Peckham, London, 1913. Shoppers throng the street at 10 o clock at night. On the right is a double-decker bus

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