Construction workers taking lunch break on the edges of the building they’re working on, London, 1929.Boys boxing barefoot while their friends look on, London, 1920.Fog encases workers at Ludgate Circus, London, November 1922Throgmorton St, 1920.Thames and Tower Bridge in London, 1920s.Twenties glamour, London, 1925.In 1921, early suffragettes often donned a bathing suit and ate pizza in large groups to annoy men.Customer complaint, 1922.Two women having a laugh on a delivery bike in 1927.London 1925.The lights of Piccadilly Circus, just around the corner, London, 1928.British Museum tube station, 1921.Trinity Almshouses, Mile End Rd, 1920.Wembley, 1923, West Ham fans at the turnstiles.London heatwave, 1920s.An ice cream vendor and his customers on the streets of London, 1920s.The gentleman plays the concertina, with the lady perhaps collecting money, or even singing, London, 1920s.Photographer over Fleet Street, December 1929.Covent Garden market traders preparing for business in the 1920s outside Theatre Royal Drury Lane.Petticoat Lane market, 1920s.London Underground in the 1920s.Buses line up to take racegoers to the Epsom Derby near Morden Underground Station, 1920.In the 1920s and 1930s, sheep were routinely introduced into London parks to keep the grass under control and reduce mowing costs.Tram emerging from the Kingsway Tunnel, 1920.Ludgate Hill, London, 1920.Trinity Almshouses, Mile End Rd, 1920.Clapham South underground Station, 1926.A commuter roller skates to work during the General Strike, 1926.The engineer is attaching the main telephone cable to a new support wire, suspended between Maddox Street and Conduit Street in Mayfair, London, c.1920s.Street traffic on London Bridge, 1927.Seven Sisters Road, 1922.Tower Bridge, 1920s.An underground train being transported on wheels through the streets of London, 1926.A worker inside Big Ben, London, 1920.Bank of England Watchman, London, 1925.King’s Cross Station, 1927.Taylor’s Pie House, 1920s.Regent Street, 1920s.Covent Garden market, 1920.A young visitor and her toy elephant finds that the elephant house at London Zoo is closed for their winter holidays.London Pavillion Theatre and Coventry Street from Piccadilly Circus, 1920sTrafalgar Square from the steps of St Martin’s-in-the-Fields, 1920sTrafalgar Square looking south, 1920sWhitehall from Parliament Square, 1920sChildren beneath Southwark Bridge, 1920sPutting on the glitz – flappers at the bar of Isa Lanchester’s nightclub in London. 1920sIn 1929, just a year after winning the right to vote on the same terms as men, a carload of women arrive at a polling station to celebrate a Conservative Party election victory.Making the best of a rainy day, these ladies tuck in to lunch during a race meeting.Two friends stroll in Hyde Park in the early 20s.Starting her own fashion career, this young girl is named ‘Miss 1926’ at a New Year’s Party.Fleet Street, 1920sHouses of Parliament from County HallJ Lyons Corner House on Strand and Craven Street, 1920sKing William IV Street and Charing Cross Hospital from Strand, 1920sMarket porters in Drury Lane, Covent Garden, 1920sMonument Street near Billingsgate Market, 1920s.Sailing barge at Greenmoor Wharf rubbish depot, Bankside, 1920s.
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