A beautiful collection of rare vintage photographs of London, taken between the 1910s and 1910s, from the Archives of English Heritage. The photo

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Here is an rare vintage photo collection that shows the capital and several cities, also islands and towns of Scotland from the 1840s to 1880s. Glasgow Exhibition, 1888 Grassmarket, Edinburgh, 1860 Jamaica Street, Glasgow, ca. 1880s Leith Pier in Edinburgh, 1870 Monument in Glasgow Necropolis, 1852 Old Town Edinburgh from the Calton Hill, ca. 1870s Piper and drummer of the 92nd Gordon Highlanders, Edinburgh Castle, 1846 Princes Street, the Scott Monument and the Royal Institution, Edinburgh, 1858 Rosslyn Chapel Apprentice Pillar, Edinburgh, 1860 Saltmarket and streets of Glasgow, 1868-71 Saltmarket from Bridgegate, Glasgow, 1868-71 Skating, St Margaret's Loch, Edinburgh, ca. 1870s St Cuthbert's Church, Lothian Road, Edinburgh, 1882 The Cowgate arch of George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, 1860 The Cowgate, Edinburgh, 1871 The Duchray Valley, looking North from South end of the Syphon Pipes, 1877 The National Gallery and Royal Institution (Royal Scottish Academy), Edinburgh, 1858 The Scott Monument, Edinburgh, 1845 Tolbooth and Canongate, Edinburgh, ca. 1870s Trongate from Tron Steeple, Glasgow, 1868-71 William Ewart Gladstoneat the Edinburgh Exhibition, 1884 92nd Gordon Highlanders at Edinburgh Castle, April 1846 Cardinal Beaton's House, the Cowgate, Edinburgh, 1868 Close No. 101 High Street, Glasgow, 1868-71 Edinburgh from the castle, 1850 Castle Street, Dundee, 1876 Children at Auchmithie, 1881 Girl with basket sitting on shore in front of boat, Auchmithie, 1881 Interior of the Drawing Room, Mar Lodge, 1863 Iona, 1 September 1856 Loch Earn, 1864 Melrose Abbey, 1856 Queen Victoria on 'Fyvie' with John Brown at Balmoral, 1863 St Andrews, 1842 Staffa near Fingal's Cave, 1850 Woman leaning against boat, Auchmithie, 1881 (Photos from National Galleries of Scotland Commons)

By the end of the 19th century, London was not just a bustling, world-class city. It was also the center of Britain's Empire. People living in London had access to goods from around the world... if they could afford them, that is. Not everyone could afford them, however, since London was also a city of contrasts. London by Alfred Buckham, pioneer of aerial photography. Eighteenth century houses at Borough Market by William Whiffin Bunhill Fields A plane tree in Cheapside Dirty Dick’s in Bishopsgate Book stalls in the Farringdon Rd by Walter Benington Roman galley discovered during the construction of County Hall in 1910 The garden at the Bank of England that was lost in the reconstruction Bridge House in George Row, Bermondsey – constructed over a creek at Jacob’s Island Penny for the Guy! Hoop & Grapes in Aldgate by Donald McLeish Houndsditch Old Clothes Market by William Whiffin In Huggin Lane between Victoria St and Lower Thames St by Andrew Paterson Inigo Jones’ gate at Chiswick House at the time it was in use as a private mental hospital The Langbourne Club for women who work in the City of London Leadenhall Poultry Market by Donald McLeish Liverpool St Station at nine o’clock six mornings a week Old signs in Lombard St by William Whiffin The London Stone by Donald McLeish Figureheads of fighting ships in the Grosvenor Rd by William Whiffin Old houses in the Strand Puddledock Blackfriars Piccadilly Circus in the eighteen-eighties Poplar Almshouses by William Whiffin Punch & Judy show at Putney On the deck of a Thames Sailing Barge by Walter Benington The Grapes at Limehouse Wapping Old Stairs by William Whiffin (via Spitalfields Life)

Carnaby Street became famous throughout the world after the 15 April 1966 publication of Time magazine’s cover and article that celebrated the street’s role: Perhaps nothing illustrates the new swinging London better than narrow, three-block-long Carnaby Street, which is crammed with a cluster of the ‘gear’ boutiques where the girls and boys buy each other … Continue reading "Once the ‘Swingingest Street in the World’: Pictures of Carnaby Street 1924-1975"

David Granick’s (1912-80) Kodachrome photographs of London in the 1960s and 1970s are sensational. Here are more from Granick’s legacy of more than 3000 colour slides of a London now only glimpsed. More here. Via: Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives , The East End in Colour 1960-80 edited by Chris Dorley-Brown and published by Hoxton Minipress.

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