London Life Collection (page 31)

The Globe Theatre, Southwark, London 1616. View of the Globe by the Dutch engraver, Claes Jansz Visscher (1587-1652) draughtsman, engraver, cartographer

Margot Fonteyn at home. Margot Fonteyn, looks out into Pelham Cresent from the french windows of her drawing room. 22 March 1946

Night, Statuary by Epstein on the Underground Building at St James Park. ? TopFoto
" Night", Statuary by Epstein on the Underground Building at St James Park. ? TopFoto

The New Wimbledon tennis courts The building of the new spectator stands April 1922

Home front 1940. House in the residential area of Bexley badly hit during the German air onslaught

London. River Thames with barges and boats with the Tower Bridge in the back ground it is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in London, England, . 1900

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)

Mr Baldwin at the opening of new London library building. Mr Stanley Baldwin attended the opening of the new, London Library building in St James Square

National Gallery building in Trafalgar Square, London, UK, England. 1930 - 1940s

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

Mr John Strachey, M. P, who succeeds Sir Ben Smith at the Ministry of food, is a family man
Mr John Strachey, M.P, who succeeds Sir Ben Smith at the Ministry of food, is a family man. At his flat in Regents Park Road, London, where he lives with his wife and 2 children, Charles, 11

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

People out enjoying the river Thames at Richmond, London, hiring rowing boats and taking river trips in the pleasure boats. Late 1940s, early 1950s

The first meeting of the Milner Holland Committee, which is to inquire into the housing situation in Greater London, took place at the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Whitehall

Salvaged belongings, after robot plane crash. Furniture, and other household belongings salvaged from wrecked homes are piled in the street after a robot plane had crashed in southern England

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

Firemen wallow in molten rubber as warehouse blazes still. Firemen wading through a lake of molten rubber as they work on the still blazing building at Wapping. 26 September 1935

National Gallery building in Trafalgar Square, London, UK, England. 1930 - 1940s

Holland House, Kensington, and gardens. 26 June 1924

Winter in London (?) terraced housing in the snow, on the canal. No further details known

London. Statuary of the P. D. A. Building. 7 June 1935
London. Statuary of the P.D.A. Building. 7 June 1935

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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

A residence in Plumstead, London, moves from Relliance Road. 1939

Elephant and Castle warehouse in flames, tremendous crowds watch. Fires involving all the four floors of the building, broke out at Messrs, Shorter Bros, China warehouse

A new pedestrian bridge being constructed over the Great West Road in Osterley, London. 1938

Father Carless of St Anns Custom House Roman Catholic Church, paying out and putting up the winning numbers at the tote club he has founded

Amid the red brick and neo- Gothic architecture of South Kensington, a great London centre for learning is taking shape. Partly occupied

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

A baby girl squatter from Duchess of Bedford house, (the block of luxury flats in West Kensington recently taken over by squatters) was taken by ambulance to hospital this morning

Barking bypass widening. 28 May 1938

Europes largest block of flats will have bomb proof shelter at Albany Street and Euston Road. Left to right - Mr M J T Goudie, the owner of the building, Colonel Gorforth of the Home Office

Council flats, Fairfield Street, Wandsworth, London. Architects : William and Ed Hunt and Basil Hughes

A view of Regent Street looking up towards Picadilly Circus, London, England

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

A man walking in the corner of Cliffords Inn, Middle Temple, Inns Of Court, London, England. 1930s

Today, Monday, the eve of the Palestine conference, members of the British delegation Heighington Lancaster house, St James s, London, to meet delegates from 7 Arab nations, Egypt, Iraq, Syria

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

Prince George tries his hand at sawing wood. Prince George helping to saw wood when he visited the new Church army Labour Home in Acre Lane, Brixton, to open the extension of the building

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

London England Mr Gould, laying one of the flagstones in which R. A. F. Squadron Badges will be placed in the floor of St Clement Danes Church Strand

Demolition & reconstruction in Wapping, London

A number of prefabricated houses have been erected at the top of Portland Place, West London. Rubble on the site has been cleared away

Birchs The famous Cornhill Restaurant which is to be rebuilt in Broad Street. 28
" Birch s" The famous Cornhill Restaurant which is to be rebuilt in Broad Street. 28 January 1926

Westminster Abbey at North Entrance, Westminster, London, England, UK. 1950s

The empty shop window of Robins Stores at Grove Park. 1936

The great crowd outside St Margarets, Westminster on the occasion of the wedding
The great crowd outside St Margaret s, Westminster on the occasion of the wedding of Winston Churchill, President of the Board of Trade, and Miss Clementine Hozier. September 12th, 1908

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

Housing office, Holborn, London, 1946, interviewing applicants, mother and child

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