OldLondonNow
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Historical London information, pictures & photographs from a collection of pre 1926 books & postcards
St Paul’s and Ludgate Hill #London 1887 William Logsdail (Private Collection) #CityofLondon #Art #History
Mind you head at The Windsor Castle in Kensington. It’s a traditional 1830’s built pub which is predominantly Gastro these days but still an atmospheric place for a pint. #windsorcastle #Kensington
Constitution Hill, London 🏴🇬🇧. Late fifties.
We’ve got bag thieves with SW1 postcodes while the people they’re snatching from are commuting in from zone 4
Two men have pleaded guilty to bag thefts in the City. Reda Hammoudi (L), 32, of no fixed abode, has pleaded guilty to three counts of bag theft. Salem Zakarya (R), 33, of Regency Street, SW1, pleaded guilty to three counts of bag theft. Both will be sentenced in September
#OnThisDay 113 years ago, the Central London Railway opened a short extension from Bank to Liverpool Street, which remained the terminus for a further 34 years. This pocket map marks the occasion, showing the onward destinations now available @ltmuseum buff.ly/5DMBEWg
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese pub – one of Charles Dickens' favourites – on Fleet St London (date unknown).
Piccadilly Circus #London in the glow of the gaslight. George Hyde Pownall (1876-1932) Private Collection.
History made! Huge congratulations to the #Lionesses on their Euros win. 🦁🏆 A night to remember! 🏴⚽️ #EurosFinal #ENGSPA
ENGLAND. HAVE. DONE. IT. EURO 2025 WINNERS! BACK TO BACK. #BBCFootball #WEuro2025
BOB HOSKINS in a great send up of one of his most famous films.
As a rugby wife, it made me laugh! 🙃
Quality 😂😂 #Lions2025 🦁
Holborn Circus looking East to the City of #London 1870s by Arthur Croft (1828-1893) The Equestrian Statue is of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha consort to Queen Victoria raising his hat to the City father’s. (@LdnMetArchives )
Tower Bridge during the first mass air raid on London in September 1940.
London 1572 in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Elizabethan #London by Georg Braun & Frans Hogenberg. (British Library)
Somerset House #London 1755. Named for the Duke of Somerset, the Lord Protector to the boy King Edward VI. Building commenced 1546-7. Somerset was committed to the Tower in 1548, pardoned, committed again in 1549 on charges of High Treason and was beheaded on Tower Hill in 1552.
Big up to all the #BlackCab drivers of London who have done “the knowledge”. We appreciate you 😊👊🏼❤️
A remarkable and rare colour view of Edwardian London 123 years ago. This is Knightsbridge, looking east towards Hyde Park Corner in 1902. Due to imperfections in the lens, only the centre of the image is in sharp focus whilst the edges remain soft and slightly curved, producing…
#Rotherhithe #SurreyDocks #Bermondsey #Millwall ⚽️