Satirical Print with two heads that can be inverted. Published as the Act directs Jan'y 4th 1815, by M. Clinch No. 20 Princes Street Soho

Throughout the war, card games were a hugely popular source of entertainment and diversion for adults and children. These are some of the ga

Floral Loto is an intelligent game that rewards horticultural knowledge and mixes gambling with education. Produced by the great London...

In 1949 Phoenix House Ltd. published their Air-Photo Atlas of London. The aerial maps provide a "street guide from the air" to post-war...

This is the index to the 1949, Phoenix House Ltd., Air-Photo Atlas of London. For the complete set of maps & images from the atlas please...

An antique memento is unfurled to reveal London's top sights in 1903. The unfurled Nutshell contains 43 tiny images of London circa 1903...

The Soho Cityscape 1991/92 is one of my favourite London maps. The locations of sights, shops, food places, pubs and entertainments from...

London Town Bagatelle - Made by Chad Valley, undated, late 1940's or early 1950's. Cardboard with five wooden balls, tin cups and steel...

A celebrated series of postcards depicting London Life by renowned publisher Charles Skilton crop up regularly on eBay and the like. The...

One day, around 84 years ago, Chad Valley produced an exceptionally odd gun-themed Disney game, The Snow White Shooting Game. The...

The London Post is a set collecting card game, published by Jaques & Son, Hatton Green London c 1870 64 Cards,

The jigsaw was manufactured for Cunard White Star Limited by The Chad Valley Co. Ltd., Harbourne, England, 1936.

Lobo, the London Underground themed card game was published by Thomas De La Rue in 1932. LOBO is the first game I know of based on the...

As a tour guide in London I have traded as Discovering London for over a decade. When I came across this board game last year I had to...

A beautiful antique card game by one of my favourite London Makers, Jaques & Sons, London. Each of the forty old counties of England has...

Owzthat” “Made in Great Britain” and “Reg. Trade Mark. 533475.” “Pat. App. 18960” 1932 by Norman Cook of Exchange Street Manchester.

Norman Cook of Manchester Patented and Trademarked Owzthat in 1932. How to Identify and Date Early Sets of Owzthat.

This is what being a telephone engineer involved in 1930s London. Twice a year the steel wires which support London's telephone cables -...

High above London, men and women were at play in 1938. Back then one could shoot guns and play golf on a rooftop. Here are some...

In the 1920s and 30s a Scottish shepherd grazed his sheep in Hyde Park. George Donald travelled down each year from Aberdeen together...