Press Photography Collection (#17)

Tonsil treatment for the Mayor!. Southwarks new health centre opened. A health centre, which brings the entire health services of Southwark under one roof, for the first time in a London borough

Poets son is architect of new London theatre were all the builders work for nothing. With Mr Raglan Squire (facing camera), son of Sir John Squire, poet and critic, as architect

A view across London seen from the 210 ft high tower of the new University of London building which is nearing completion in Bloomsbury

Thomas, son of the novelist J. B. Priestley, unlocking the Sherborne Nursery School on the roof of the new flats built at Litcham Street by the St Pancras House Improvement Society

Greedy!. A Fennec Fox, native of North America, faces a big meal in his den at the London Zoo. It ll take him some time to work its way through that bone. 1 March 1938

Roof reeds. Thatchers using reeds for the roof of a new building on the London Brighton road at Warninglid, Sussex. The reeds are brought specially from the Norfolk Broads 4 February 1938

A five - year - old conductor at Crystal Palace Music Festival. Boys and girls of five are conducting their own percussion bands at the 74th annual choral festival of English Schools Music

Firemen fight fire at London church. A hundred firemen with twenty engines were called to fight a serious blaze at St Davids Church is Westbourne Road, Islington

High divers near high flyers. Photo shows: the new high diving stage which has been built at the Croydon Municipal Swimming Pool in readiness for the opening of the summer season

Premiers wife opens new Kensington flats. Mrs Neville Chamberlain, wife of the Premier, opened 24 new flats built like houses with balconies in Basing Road, North kensington, london

London schoolboys among the Kings special tour of Swindon locomotive works. Boys from many of the London technical schools left the realms of theory and models

Fireman at the new headquarters are practising the display they would give when the King and Queen open the new Fire Brigade Headquarters on the Albert Embankment, London today (Wednesday)

Londons latest marvel of engineering the £1, 250, 000 Earls Court Exhibition building
Londons latest marvel of engineering the £ 1, 250, 000 Earls Court Exhibition building, the largest reinforced concrete building in Europe which covers 9 acres

Boxer, Marcus Neusals victory breakfast in his London hotel after defeating Jack Peterson at the Empire building. 5 February 1935

Public can see now wonderful daffodil display at Sir Philip Sassoons home. For the first Thursday this year, the beautiful gardens at the Trent Park, Cockfosters, home of Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt

London man gives £1600 organ to Cambridgeshire church. Owing to the generosity of a London man
London man gives £ 1600 organ to Cambridgeshire church. Owing to the generosity of a London man, Doddington (Cambridgeshire)

Bank of England presents historic strip of pavement to city. Scanes architecture preserved. An unusual gift, a historic strip of pavement at the Tivoli Corner of the Bank

Mr Lewis Silkin MP, opens first part of big new housing estate at Campbell. Another stage the London County Councils re-housing scheme was reached when Mr Lewis Silkin, MP

Tenants presented to the King during tour of Duchy. Some of the oldest tenants of the estate were presented to the King when he visited Aquinas Street during his tour of the Duchy of Cornwall estates

Underneath the Arches of St. Jude s. Photo shows : The arches of St. Judes Church, Grays Inn Road, W. C. standing mid the rubble brought down by the pick - axes of the demolition workers. 16 May 1936

Premiers wife, fries sausages, during East end hostel visit. Mrs Neville Chamberlain, wife of the Premier, fried sausages in the kitchens of the hostel when she visited the Salvation Army Womens

Empire students home new buildings to be opened by Queen Mary. Men are working day and night to finish off the new buildings of London House, Guilford Street, which are to be opened by Queen Mary

Faced by a full programme of engagements, Sir Kingsley Wood, the Minister of health, left Kings Cross Station, London, in the streamlined Silver Jubilee express for his tour of Tyneside

America and London. New embassy building in Grosvenor Square. In one of London s
America and London. New embassy building in Grosvenor Square. In one of Londons most magnificent squares, not far from Buckingham Palace

Mrs Phyllis Tidy, Mayor of Soutwark, with Mr Cyril Kew, at todays opening of a model of The Star South Bank scheme. 11 July 1938

Fireman of the headquarters staff are practising the display they would give when the King and Queen open the new Fire Brigade Headquarters on the Albert Embankment, London today (Wednesday)

The man who is fighting Abyssinias battle at Geneva. A picture just received in London of M Wolde Maryam, the Ethopian representative ( left)

Eight escape when 40 ton wall crashes on two houses at Henley. November 1935

Park Royal Brewery a blaze. A fierce fire raged for hours in buildings at the Guinness Brewery, Park Royal. The blaze consumed the cooperage and garage, large outbuildings

Record-breaking Japanese airmen broadcasts to Tokyo. After smashing all records by flying the 10, 000 miles from Tokyo to London in well under 100 hours

London Fireman Give Rescue Display. A display of rescue work, fire fighting and drill was given by members of the London Fire Brigade at the Brigades Headquarters, Southwark

Duke of Kent visits Battersea Settlement. The Duke of Kent visited the Katherine Low Settlement in High Street, Battersea

Westminster Abbey after being closed for nine months owing to the Coronation, was re-opened today (Sunday) for public services. Crowds of people queue for the first service. 26 September 1937

Lord Horder, the Kings physician, opened the new Finsbury Health Centre in Pine Street, Finsbury. The new building incorporates the whole administrative staff of the Public Health Department

London office girls become expert with the rifle. Girls employed in the offices of the Crown Agents for the Colonies at Millbank, London, have a new interest

Arches with Nothing to Support Photo shows : Roofless St. Judes Church, Grays Inn Road, W. C. which is fast disappering under th onslaught of the demolition men. 16 May 1936

Coronation House Gathering funds by door-to-door collections, many of the poorest streets in the East End of London have rivalled the West End with the brilliance

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London race warehouse blaze. Carbetts rice warehouse in Shad Thames caught fire and blazed furiously. Photo shows, firemen directing hoses at the blazing building. 1 April 1936

Westminster Bridge, London, traffic hold up. 14 January 1935

Join the army and learn !. Vocational training centres exhibit at Olympia show. The army vocational training centre is one of the 350 exhibitors at the 20 biannual building exhibition to be opened at

Survivor amid the ruins. London house wrecked by explosion. One man, John Clancy, aged 68, was killed and eight other persons were injured when a gas explosion ripped a house in De Morgan Road

Miss Mabel Allingham, a Horsham domestic servant, who was being crowned Queen of the Towns carnival this evening (Thursday)

Bursting in fury against the sea wall, huge waves lashed to a white fury by the gale, curl and break over the front at Hastings, Sussex. October Gales are reported along the whole of the south coast

Last painting by Dean of Westminster on view at Parsons Exhibition in London. Clergyman with artistic talent, are showing their works at the 14th annual Exhibition organised by the Society of

Reuben fine and his wife, at Hastings International chess Congress. Masters in a fur collar.. Many of the worlds leading chess masters are taking part in the International Hastings Christmas Chess

Duchess of York opens new building to children at Chailey School. The Duchess of York opened a new building for the use of children when she visited the Heritage Craft Schools at Chailey, Sussex

S Flohr in play at Hastings International chess Congress. Many of the worlds leading chess masters are taking part in the International Hastings Christmas Chess Congress

Rheims Cathedral in sugar. Some wonderful models made entirely of sugar will be on show at the Hotel, Restaurant and Catering Exhibition, which opens in the National Hall at Olympia, London tomorrow

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