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Old London

"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." — Samuel Johnson, 20 September 1777
King Henry VI appointing Talbot as Constable of France 1503 - Marriage contract of Henry VIII to Katherine of Aragon 1536 - Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex c. 1540 - The lost portrait of Anne of Cleves c. 1545 - Henry VIII with Prince Edward and Jane Seymour 1545 - Thomas Cranmer
1684 - The Frost Fair on the River Thames July 1703 - Daniel Defoe in the pillory c. 1745 - David Garrick as Richard III 1745 - The Painter and His Pug 1747 - Westminster Bridge 1751 - Gin Lane
1751 - Beer Street 1771-72 - The Academicians of the Royal Academy 1765 - Kitty Fisher 1777 - Manuscript with alterations in Sheridan's hand 1778 - Buying a Ballad 1782 - The Skater
2 April 1786 - Rich and poor 1791 - Suffering for fashion 1792 - Fashionable Contrasts Or the Duchess's Little Shoe Yielding to the Duke's Magnificent Foot. 1794 - Westminster Abbey March 19, 1798 - John Bull farts at a poster of George III c. 1800 - East India House
1800 - Exhibition Staircase 1808 - Drury Lane Theatre 1807 - Miseries of London 1809 - The Boxes 1821 - The Green Room at Drury Lane Theatre 1823 - Victoria, aged 4
1824 - Charles Dickens, aged 12 Marshalsea c. 1825 - London Bridge 1825 - The Cyprians' Ball at the Argyle Rooms 1827 - Dickens began work here as a junior clerk 16 October 1834 - Burning of the Houses of Parliament
1834 - Street scene c. 1835 - Covent Garden Market 15 May 1838 - Queen Victoria 1838 - Mental patient at Bedlam Hospital c. 1841 - The Winner 1841 - Burning of the Tower of London
1841 - Queen Victoria 1841 - Prince Albert 1843 - First edition 1843 - Piccadilly looking towards the City June 1844 - Nelson’s Column under construction 1846 - Albert Edward, Prince of Wales
1840 - Queen Victoria in wedding veil c. 1847 - Night Guide 1848 - Albert, Prince Consort 1851 - Crystal Palace, The Great Exhibition 1854 - Cholera outbreak 1857 - Applicants for admission to a homeless shelter
1858 - The Silent Highwayman 1858 - Charles Dickens at his desk Lant Street 1860's - Houses of Parliament 1860 - Lower Fore Street, Lambeth #1 1860 - Lower Fore Street, Lambeth #2
1860 - Queen Victoria 1860 - Homeless c. 1860 - Charles Dickens 1862 - Joseph Clover with his chloroform apparatus 1863 - Marriage of the Prince of Wales with Princess Alexandra of Denmark 1866 - The Railway Station
1868 - Rehearsal 1870 - King George V as a boy c. 1870 - Over London by Rail 1871 - The Thames at Westminster 1872 - Dudley Street, Seven Dials, Covent Garden c. 1874 - Visitors
1875 - Oxford Arms Coaching Inn c. 1875 - Flower Sellers of London c. 1876 - Street doctor 1876 - The Yeoman of the Guard c. 1877 - Shoeshine boy 1877 - W.S. Gilbert's burlesque comedy Engaged
1877 - London nomades 1877 - Recruiting sergeants 1877 - Used furniture shop 1877 - Flower sellers, Covent Garden 1878 - A Jersey Lily (actress Lillie Langtry) 1878 - Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
1878 - The Terrace of the Trafalgar Tavern 1878 - Poster for the original production 1879 - Queen Victor with Princess Beatrice 1879 - A corner on a bridge 1880 - Actress Ellen Terry 1880 - Drinking vs Not drinking
1881 - Savoy Theatre 1881 - Lillie Langtry in She Stoops to Conquer 1881 - St Mary Overy's Dock, Southwark 1881 - Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield 1881 - Opening of the coaching season 1882 - Behind the Bar
1883 - A Private View at the Royal Academy 1883 - Henry Dixon & Son’s shop, Soho 1883 - Queen Victoria with her great-grandson... 1884 - Mary of Teck with her mother and brothers 1884 - Horse Guards, Whitehall c. 1885 - Metropolitan Police Ambulance
1885 - Three Little Maids from School Are We 1895 - The Old Bedford 1885 - Queen Victoria assisted by Abdul Karim 1886 - John Singer Sargent Daisy Greville 1887 - Chimney sweep and barefoot boy
1887 - Ludgate 1888 - George Bernard Shaw 31 August 1888 - A policeman discovers the body of Polly Nichols 1889 - Oscar Wilde 1889 - Tower Bridge under construction 1889 - Mr. Bumble from Oliver Twist
1889 - Champion boxer Peter Jackson 1890 - The Underground Family living in poverty 1891 - Prince Albert Victor, eldest son of the future Edward VII 1891 - Mrs Eleanor Xiniwe (nee Ndwanya) 1891 - A singer with the African Choir
1891 - Albert Jonas and John Xiniwe of the African Choir 1892 - W. S. Penley as the original Charley's Aunt 1892 - View of London December 1892 - Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson 1893 - Arthur Conan Doyle c. 1893 - Tower Bridge under construction
1893 - Delivering fish in Billingsgate 1893 - Mary of Teck shortly before her marriage to the Duke of York 1893 - Wedding party of future King George V and Queen Mary 1893 - St Paul’s from Bankside c. 1894 - Upper level of Tower Bridge 1894 - Four generations of monarchs
1894 - Rudyard Kipling Christmas 1894 - River Thames frozen over Chimney sweep c. 1894 - Aubrey Beardsley c. 1895 - High fashion 1895 - Mrs Patrick Campbell as Juliet
1896 - Trafalgar Square 1896 - Leadenhall Street 1897 - Poster for the 1st revival of The Yeomen of the Guard 1897 - Nursery men 1897 - James McNeill Whistler 1897 - Future King George V and Queen Mary
1897 - Poster 1899 - Winston Churchill c. 1899 - Queen Victoria c. 1900 - 17 years old in Spitalfields 1920 - Inside Big Ben c. 1900 - Clare Market
1900 - Queen Victoria c. 1900 - Playing at a water trough, Barnet High Street 1900 - Waterloo Place, Richmond c. 1900 - Theatre Royal Haymarket 1900 - Mrs Patrick Campbell 1901 - Empire Theatre, Hackney
1902 - Virginia Woolf August 1902 - King Edward VII in coronation robes August 1902 - Queen Alexandra in her coronation robes August 1902 - The Anointing of Queen Alexandra at the Coronation of Edward VII 1902 - Morning rush 1904 - Street meeting
Nell Gwynne's lodging on Drury Lane c. 1905 - Charlie Chaplin aged 14-16 1905 - Sailor looking at Nelson 1905 - King Edward VII Mini Cadillac for Siamese royal sons 1907 - Lily Elsie and Joseph Coyne in The Merry Widow
1907 - An English gentleman 1908 - Maud Allan as Salomé 1908 - Maud Allan in Vision of Salomé 1908 - Poster 1908 - Fashionable shoppers 1908 - Suffragette parade
1908 - Lillie Langtry 1908 - Trafalger Square September 1909 - Lily Elsie 1909 - Prison for suffragettes 1909 - Slum housing in Providence Place c. 1910 - Pollution
c. 1910 - Floral Hall, Covent Garden Market c. 1910 - Ironmongers' Hall, Court Luncheon Room c. 1910 - View Down Cheapside c. 1910 - Women's Hockey Team c. 1910 - The muffin man 1910 - Selling fish from a barrel
1910 - Tamara Karsavina in Les Sylphides 1910 - Visitors to the site if executions 1910 - London cab 1910 - Helping hands 8 May 1910 - King Edward VII on his deathbed, Buckingham Palace 1910 - Funeral of King Edward VII
c. 1910 - Handbill 1910 - Suffragette under arrest c. 1910 - Royal cousins 1910 - Future King Edward VIII, later Duke of Windsor c. 1911 - Wilkins Micawber (from David Copperfield) 1911 - London Bridge
August 1911 - Skinny dipping in Regents Canal during a heatwave August 1911 - Wading in the Serpentine to cool off 1911 - Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald 1911 - Costume design for A Midsummer Night's Dream 1911 - Gauguins and Connoisseurs 1911 - King George V in coronation robes
1912 - Coronation portrait of Queen Mary of Teck 1912 - Street kid called a Spitalfield Nipper 1912 - Nippers of Spitalfields c. 1912 - East End 1912 - The Café Royal 1912 - St. Pancras station
1912 - Special edition 1913 - Henry James 1913 - Saki 1913 - The Suffragette was published by the Women's Social and Political Union 1913 - Mrs Pat as Eliza in Shaw's Pygmalion 1914 - Character of Eliza Doolittle from Shaw's Pygmalion
May 1914 1914 - King George V c. 1914 - Youth with bagpipes 1914 - Sheet music 1914 - Tamara Karsavina 1915 - David Lloyd George
May 1915 - German-owned shop boarded up 1915 - Brothers bid goodbye, they're off to war c. 1915 - Outside the George & Vulture pub 1916 - Actress Gladys Cooper 1916 - Students receiving their War Savings certificates 1917 - Good riddance
1917 - Actress Evelyn Laye 1918 - London Music Hall 1918 - Window cleaner 1919 - Arrival at Buckingham Palace for a garden party 1919 - King George V and Queen Mary 1919 - Homeless family, Fleet Street
August 1919 - Schoolboys in the park August 1919 - The joys of the seaside at home for London children during a heat wave 1919 - Champion swimmers c. 1920 - Throgmorton Street 1920 - Vending machine 1920 - The British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John Stores
September 1921 - Charlie Chaplin chatting with fellow passenger September 1921 - Charlie Chaplin visiting the city where he was born 1921 - Charlie Chaplin with children from the slums 28 February 1922 - Princess Mary weds Viscount Lascelle Refreshment trolley, Paddington Station 1922 - Flask Walk, Hampstead
1922 - Fog

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Dougie Young18-Jul-2017 08:27
I never tire of London, love the place. Another cracking gallery John..:>oted
Cemil Gursen14-Nov-2016 22:32
Very nice collection. V
laine28-Feb-2016 09:26
A wonderful collection of photos of historical significance
joseantonio28-Nov-2015 10:48
It´s always a great pleasure to look at your amazing galleries. Thank you for sharing your work.V
Paolo Peggi (aka Bracciodiferro)16-Nov-2015 20:16
Great work,voted! V
Paolo
danielhechter19-Mar-2015 11:40
Very nice
danielhechter17-Mar-2015 02:51
Nice photos :)
Milan Vogrin15-Mar-2015 21:15
Nice collection!
Tina Mass11-Mar-2015 00:01
Good Photo
Guest 07-Mar-2015 10:14
Hi John : I love all your (very very) vintage galleries !
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