Images Dated 27th August 2015

London s ever - improving transport system carries its works programme a step further

Londons ever - improving transport system carries its works programme a step further when the Minister of Transport opens the new Central Line extension from Leytonstone to Woodford and Newbury Park on the Underground.
The picture shows a view of the platform at Wanstead Station with workmen still putting on the finishing touches and with a staff train passing through.
11 December 1947

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Ex paratrooper Donald Cook, 38 year old aircraft inspector and secretary of the St

Ex paratrooper Donald Cook, 38 year old aircraft inspector and secretary of the St. Pancras United Tenants Association, talks to his 36 year old wife Edith through a barricade of barbed wire and two upturned old pianos at their top floor flat at Kennistoun House, a block of St. Pancras Council flats in Leighton Road, Kentish Town, London. An eviction notice served on Mr. Cook expires at midnight and he says he is prepared if necessary for a three year siege. A rocket will be fired as a signal that the bailiffs have arrived Mr. Cook, father of four children, said that he owes about ?56 in rent on his two-bedroomed foat, which originally cost him 28s. a week. There was a 10s. increase in January and another of 12s. 6d. last month. He and other tenants had been told they could expect another next January, and by then the rent would be 56s. He had refused to pay. - Photo taken 28th August 1960.
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Reassembling an underground tunnel, this latest picture of the Bristol aircraft companies

Reassembling an underground tunnel, this latest picture of the Bristol aircraft companies giant Brabazon, which when completed, will be the "Queen Elizabeth" of the air, shows men at work on tremendous frame of the aircraft at the companies Filton works. Now completely encased in 30, 000 ft.? of metal Skin, this section represents only a quarter of the entire length of the Brabazon. At its widest point the compartment measures 16 feet, and has absorbed nearly a quarter of 1 million of the 1 1/2 million visits which will have gone into the making of this machine when completed.
15 June 1947

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