London Life Collection (page 23)

Red white and blue Coronation barge. Coronation Stand is being built on a barge painted red white and blue moored by Lambeth Bridge

The construction of new buildings in Wapping, the London dock area which had been heavily bombed during the London blitz in World War II. 1948

The Peabody dwellings for the industrious poor in a commercial street in the Spitalfields area of London. 1863

The river Thames at Richmond, London, England. 1950s

Old housing in Woolwich, London - 17 October 1951 A TopFoto
Old housing in Woolwich, London - 17 October 1951 eTopFoto

Testing wireless apparatus for Kings speech at Economic Conference. There is official testing of the wireless transmitting instruments to make certain the Kings speech at the opening of the World

Horseguard on sentry duty outside Horse Guards Parade, Whitehall, London, England. 1960 s

Building the temporary structure for the Army Parcels Office in Regents Park. 1914

Birkhall, a white walled Jacobean house near Balmoral, Scotland, where Princess Alexandra and Mr Angus Ogilvy are to spend the first part of their honeymoon following their wedding next Wednesday

A protest meeting of tenants outside Quinn Square Building Bethnal Green London in August 1938 over 240 families refused to pay rents of more than fifteen shillings A placard reads lower rents mean

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

Coronation tea in Eltham, London, to celebrate the coronation of King George VI. 1937

Demolition and construction at London Bridge. Demolition and construction work being carried on side-by-side in the shadow of London Bridge

London. Gateway to Hyde Park. 1900

The window blinds are drawn, and motor cycle and foot policemen stand guard outside the buildings of the Rhodesian High Commission in the Strand, London

Large building in Holborn, London for Roneo office equipment. 1920 s

London traffic negotiating the road around the Wellington Arch. Cranes and construction works can be seen as the building of the new underpass has started

London: Kitchen of Mrs Gretel Beer, of 3, South Square Grays Inn. 23 April 1959

Beverly Minister. Surrounded by centuries-old yews, the ageing stone pile of Beverley Minister points its graceful Twin Towers to the sky

Bomb damage. The scene in a street in East Ham, East London, typical of so many after an air raid

In heavy rain this afternoon, Sunday, 1500 Londoners converged on Kensington high Street in a well-planned operation to take over block of flats in Duchess of Bedford walk, West Kensington

London housewives queued in their patient thousands from early morning today, Friday, to buy sufficient bread to type their homes over the victory and Whitsun holidays

The Prince of Wales inaugurates a worthy home for the parliament of Northern Ireland : The Prince, in naval uniform, with the Duke of Abercorn, seen on the steps of Stormont, Belfast

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

Telephone girls learn to carry on as usual in gas masks. Telephone girls are being trained to use special gas masks say that they can remain at their posts in an emergency

Piccadilly Tube Extension works from Finsbury to Cockfosters. The End of the Tube at Bounds Green Road, from which the railway comes to the surface at Cockfosters. 1931 ? TopFoto

Prince of Wales to inspect international telephone exchange. The Prince of Wales, who will be received by the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Percy Greenaway and Sir Kingsley Wood, the Postmaster General

Women market traders at Londons Covent Garden flower, fruit and vegetable market, stopping for lunch amongst the fruit and vegetable boxes. Late 1940s, early 1950s

An interior view opf the new swimming baths on Eltham Hill. The Mayor of Woolwich, Count T Watt opens the baths. Seen here shaking the hand of W Ogden. 1939

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

Post war development : New pre - fabricated council flats at Cromer Street, St Pancras, London, designed by architects, Hening and Chitty. late 1940s

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

Construction work on the building of the new traffic underpass has started at Hyde Park Corner behind the statue of the Duke of Wellington by the Wellington Arch

An interior view of the nearly completed Festival of Britain Concert Hall, showing at left the uniquely arranged series of boxes

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

The new wing at the County School for Boys, Sidcup. 1935

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

An exterior view of St John the Evangelist church in Bexley, London. 1939

Scaffolding at Masonic Building, Freemasons Hall, at Great Queen Street, London, England. Angled shot. Late 1940s

A pathetic scene in Londons cold. A human derelict. a women huddled beneath all her worldly possessions in the bitter cold in Green Park, London her only home. 13 February 1932

Trafalgar Square, London, UK, England. 1930 - 1940s

This front of Buckingham Palace hidden by scaffolding during the transformation, London, England. Work went on day and night during August, September and October

Peckham Health Centre or the Pioneer Health Centre was opened in 1935 in Peckham, south London. It was a social experiment to monitor the effects of environment on health

London : Mr C. A. Linge, Clerk of Works at St Pauls Cathedral, London. 16 February 1961

Post War Britain - The first newly built prefab houses take shape in South East London. c.1946

Heavy rain washed out part of the government party held at Hampton Court Palace last night. The King and Queen Anne Queen Mary were among the thousand guests at the reception for Dominion

Dwellings in Stepney, London. 1933

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