London Life Collection (page 24)

Duke of Kent opens new housing estate. The Duke of Kent opened the Hampstead Council s, Westcroft Housing Estate in Lichfield Road, Cricklewood

Abbeys Coronation annexe nears completion. The Robing Room annexe that is being built at the West door of Westminster Abbey for the Coronation is nearing completion

London: Squatters at the empty 60 room mansion a 144, Piccadilly, London, this morning. Ironically, adorning the wall of the building is a poster with the message

London: Squatters at the empty 60 room mansion a 144, Piccadilly, London, this morning. Ironically, adorning the wall of the building is a poster with the message

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

Still supreme and unchallenged in height the 620 ft General Post Office Tower situated just off Tottenham Court Road has now been open to the general public for some weeks Although the general public

A view up the 210 ft of the tower of the new University of London building which is now nearing completion in Bloomsbury. With 20 story the skyscraper has the most floors any other building in London

The building of the Ascott Gas, Water, Gesyers Works Ltd, Neasden. 1937

Prince George, the Duke of Kent (left), visits the new nurse home at the Memorial Hospital in Woolwich, London. Here the Duke walks down the corridor with Councillor T Watt JP, the Mayor of Woolwich

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

Princess Alice, opens new Kensington flat. Kings message. Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, open to new blocks of 40 flats at Bromley Road, North Kensington

London. Bermondsey brightens up her bomb sites. 1950 Alma Alexis School, where pupils dig to level out the bomb site

The Summer scene in Londons Soho Square. In the background, through the plane trees can be seen the giant new Centre Point tower office block at nearby St Giles Circus, London, England. August 1967

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)

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

Beckton, East London : Housing Minister the Rt Hon Duncan Sandys will perform the oipening ceremony at the Northern Outfall Works of an extension to the main drainage system

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

Londons Flat Flats Towering over the busy dockland, surrounded by cranes
Londons Flat " Flats " Towering over the busy dockland, surrounded by cranes and the tail masts of the worlds shipping, is Londons most curious building

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

Although the external appearance of Buckingham Palace has been greatly improved in the last 30 years, it still gives little indication of the splendour and dignity within

Slums near the docks. 1933

At Eltham the new swimming baths in course of construction. 1938

Tower Bridge is a bascule bridge over the River Thames, London, England, UK 1960 s

London: Pakistani-born student leader Tariq Ali stands a top pillar-box near the Pakistan High Commission in Lowndes Square, London, This afternoon, to make a speech

Chingfords hillside swimming pool nearly ready. Chingfords new swimming pool at Larkswood is nearing completion and will be opened by Sir Kingsley Wood, Minister of Health, in a fortnights time

Sidcup, Kent; These children lined up outside an old barn in Sidcup, Kent are in for a Saturday morning treat. The Barn, standing in the grounds of the Rose Bruford Training College of Speech

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

Collins brothers building company. Their rebuilding scheme of the local bottle factory. 1938

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

Butlin Building, 439 Oxford Street, London, has been opened as the headquarters of the Holiday Camp Movement. During the coming summer the camps will accomodate a quarter of a million people

Scandinavian travel agents visit House of Commons. A party of Scandinavian travel agents touring England, as the guests of the Travel Association

At Eltham the new swimming baths in course of construction. 1938

The County School for Boys in Sidcup, London. An external view of the new building

Hotel Russel in London. 26 April 1932

At the Ranelagh Club, Barnes, West London, the avenue of trees leading up to the Club House. 2 April 1936

A plaque of the world-famous orthopaedic specialist Sir Herbert Barker is to hang above a bed and in his name at St Thomass Hospital, Westminster, when extensive war damaged the building is repaired

Although the external appearance of Buckingham Palace has been greatly improved in the last 30 years, it still gives little indication of the splendour and dignity within

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

Sir Harold Pellman of The National Building Society 16 August 1932

February 1874 The burning of the Pantechnicon building in Montcomb Street, Belgravia, London, England The ruins after the fire

Hurstmonceux Castle, Sussex by Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner (born in Covent Garden, London on April 23, 1775 (exact date disputed), died December 19

A market porter transports a sack of vegetables on his head, while women market traders sit and have their lunch behind him at Covent Gardens flower, fruit and vegetable market, Covent Garden

This prefab estate fits in admirably with its surroundings. The picture is taken from the air showing how the new estate has filled in a space at the side of the Kingston-bypass, near London

Where the World Economic Conference will meet. The new building of the Geological Museum in Kensington, London has been chosen as the meeting place for the World Economic Conference at which

Ciros Club reopens with fishing pond for customers to catch own fish and see it prepared for table. Ciros Club, the well known London restaurant

People enjoying the sunshine and the fountains in Trafalgar Square, London, England. 1940s, 1950s

Electric transformer station housed in a church building in Streatham, London. 1938

At the Welsh Industries Fair - a model of the Airey permanent house made of precast concrete units, with a flat or pitched roof, and containing three bedrooms, a living room

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping