’Brompton Cemetery’

’Brompton Cemetery’

http://johnbawtree.com

🎨 John Bawtree

#fineart #brompton

Billingsgate and the Pool of London (early 1900s)

Billingsgate and the Pool of London (early 1900s)

#cityoflondon

Waterloo station (1940)

Waterloo station (1940)

Troops arrive while children who are being evacuated from London, leave

📷 New York Times Paris Bureau Collection

#london #waterloo

A 1963 drive through west London George Eyles, originally from Gloucestershire, was Director of Tests at the UK Institute of Advanced Motorists.In 1963, he took a trip through west London in...

A 1963 drive through west London: George Eyles was Director of Tests at the UK Institute of Advanced Motorists. In 1963, he took a trip through London in a Jaguar MK2 and this little movie resulted

https://youtu.be/Oh3X4sIqink

Aerial photo of Canary Wharf area, 1980

Aerial photo of Canary Wharf area, 1980

🎨 Port of London Authority

#london #riverthames

Venn diagram

Venn diagram

#ott #offtopictuesday

Oh it's so sad that Scott Mills is ruining the BBC family legacy started by his mother, Pebble.

Just how it is at the moment

Know Your London A good place to find out about the history of Inner London. There’s no fake-history on this Website.

Know Your London: A place to find out about the history of Inner London

https://knowyourlondon.wordpress.com/

"Locomotive exiting the Thames Tunnel and arriving at what is now Wapping station" Illustrated London News 8 January 1870

"Locomotive exiting the Thames Tunnel and arriving at what is now Wapping station" Illustrated London News 8 January 1870

📷 Illustrated London News

#london #wapping

Purrett Road

Purrett Road, SE18

Purrett Road leads south from Plumstead High Street and was photographed here c. 1900

#london #woolwich

Survey of London: An architectural look at areas of London, street by street from UCL

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london

Edgware extension opens (1924)

Edgware extension opens (1924)

📷 London Transport Museum

📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=2931

#london #edgware

Corner of Bangor Street and Sirdar Road, W11 (1911)

Corner of Bangor Street and Sirdar Road, W11 (1911)

This became the Dolphin Pub. The location was demolished to make way for the Henry Dickens Estate.

🎨 London City Mission magazine

📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=2147

#london #nottinghill

Not quite sure what message is being conveyed here!

Not quite sure what message is being conveyed here!

📷 Old London postcard

#ott #offtopictuesday

Golders Green to Hampstead (Northern line) You can simply walk the main road between Golders Green to Hampstead. It's a long way to start with but you need to:1. Like traffic2. Be able to ignore the g...

Golders Green to Hampstead - the long way around: A walk from Golders Green to Hampstead taking in the Hampstead Heath Extension, Hill House Garden and Vale of Health

https://youtu.be/PKGL3lheNp0

Madeira Grove, Woodford (1948)

Madeira Grove, Woodford (1948)

A bus replacement service while the electrification of the new Central Line service was taking place

#london #woodfordgreen

’Greenwich Days’ (2022)

’Greenwich Days’ (2022)

http://sarahfosse.com

🎨 Sarah Fosse

#fineart #greenwich

Wentworth Street from Middlesex Street, c.1920s

Wentworth Street from Middlesex Street, c.1920s

📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=32654

#london #spitalfields

Ridler’s Tyre Yard

Ridler’s Tyre Yard was situated in a part of Blechynden Street - next to the railway bridge - which no longer exists due to the building of the Westway in the late 1960s

📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=2152

#london #nottingdale

it’s slightly larger in the original. I created it myself

Municipal Dreams Municipal Dreams celebrates the efforts and achievements of our early municipal reformers

Municipal Dreams: Municipal Dreams celebrates the efforts and achievements of our early municipal reformers

https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com

Medieval Charing Cross

Medieval Charing Cross

📷 The Underground Map

#map #trafalgarsquare

Fox and Clark’ Furniture Shop (1905)

"Fox and Clark’s Furniture Shop, Boreham Wood"(1905)

This was located in the part of Shenley Road, Borehamwood beyond the later war memorial

📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=2148

#borehamwood #herts

Nothing going down

Nothing going down

#ott #offtopictuesday

London Compendium: an amazing book to buy - a treasure of London facts and history

www.theundergroundmap.com/wp/the-london-compendium...

’Late Afternoon, Light over the City’

’Late Afternoon, Light over the City’

http://peterwilemanartist.co.uk

🎨 Peter Wileman

#fineart

Delivering milk in Adine Road, Plaistow, 1934

Delivering milk in Adine Road, Plaistow, 1934

#london #plaistow

Prefabs on Wanstead Flats

Prefabs on Wanstead Flats.

Prefabs were built on Wanstead Flats in 1946 to ease the post-war housing shortage (particularly in the then Borough of West Ham).

A decision was made in the late 1950s to remove them and this had been carried out by 1962.

#london #wanstead

It never rains - it pours. After death by electrocution there’s a fine to pay too