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The Liverpool Street Station Campaign (LISSCA) has stood at this point before. In the 1970s, LISSCA was formed to oppose the demolition of the Victorian station buildings and, after years of campaigning, the group succeeded in saving the Great Eastern Hotel and key train sheds.

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Wapping Old Stairs are historic, 16th-century, stone steps located on the Thames foreshore next to the Town of Ramsgate pub in Wapping, London. Once known as "Waterman's Stairs," these steps were used for landing cargo, passengers or convicts to nearby notorious "Execution Dock".

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Cranes and Lampposts at Deptford, London.

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Christmas Past: Two policemen admire London's 64ft Christmas tree, a gift from Norway, illuminated in Trafalgar Square on December 1, 1948

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The hidden part of Euston underground is like a bill posted passage back in time travelling.

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Easter Fair trying to win a goldfish 1950s

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Easter Fair trying to win a goldfish 1950s

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THE FORTY ELEPHANTS: SOUTH LONDON’S SHOPLIFTERS
From the late 1800s, an all-women gang of shoplifters from south London targeted West End department stores, becoming well known and widely feared.
It is now a new series on Disney "A Thousand Blows".

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Wartime in the Market: A fruit and vegetable wholesaler displays a list of his goods on a blackboard at Covent Garden Market, London during 1940. What is this life if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare! A group of market traders Covent Garden.

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Wartime in the Market: A fruit and vegetable wholesaler displays a list of his goods on a blackboard at Covent Garden Market, London during 1940. What is this life if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare! A group of market traders Covent Garden.

1 year ago 1 1 0 0
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THE FORTY ELEPHANTS: SOUTH LONDON’S SHOPLIFTERS
From the late 1800s, an all-women gang of shoplifters from south London targeted West End department stores, becoming well known and widely feared.
It is now a new series on Disney "A Thousand Blows".

1 year ago 2 1 0 0