Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese of London City. The Literateurs' Haunt for 300 Years or The Book of The Cheese This book was published around a...

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...

I recently came across a book containing views of Edwardian London that I hadn't seen before on the net. Three Hundred and Fifty Views -...

In 1936 a Bauhaus master turned his attention to London Street Markets. László Moholy-Nagy provided 64 superb images for Mary Benedetta's...

The British Museum have just opened a new, free, exhibition "The Horse: from Arabia to Royal Ascot". The exhibition seeks to demonstrate...

In 1930 the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries published a report on London Markets. The report described all the principal London...

In 1928 an anonymous writer noted that: "London's annual heat wave is always forgotten by the next year. According to Londoners it rains...

There are countless books on The City of London but a new title improves upon so many that have gone before. "The City of London: A...

In October 1905 King Edward VII officially opened Kingsway and Aldwych; "The largest and most important improvement in London since the...

Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell's classic book on his experience of rough living, was published in 1933. These photos of...

In Bowes Park a pair of underpants are gently decaying in public. They have a fascinating and genuinely moving story to tell; now how...

These images show Tower Bridge under construction in the 1880s. At the offices of one of the original contractors, management had decided...