March 18th, 2017 | Updated on February 27th, 2024
London’s streetscapes have changed constantly through its history. London is a rightfully proud city. It goes without saying that it’s cool to be British. The only thing cooler? The nostalgia of 20th-century London. Here, 40 vintage London photos that capture those special moments from the past.
1. Bill Brandt, St. Paul’s Cathedral in the Moonlight, 1939
2. Bill Brandt, Piccadilly Circus Before the Blackout, 1940
3. BT Tower, London, under construction, 1960s
4. Boats in front of the Battersea Power Station, London, England, 1934
5. A child stares into a Whitechapel bakery window, 1935
6. Battersea Power Station, London, 3 January 1956
7. London fog, 1938
8. London Bridge, c. 1930
9. Christmas Globe – Picadilly Circus
10. Houses of Parliament c.1910-20
11. Double-decker buses circle the Prince Albert statue at Holborn Circus in London, England, in the smog at night on December 6, 1962.
12. Carnaby Street 60s
13. London in 1975
14. Kings Cross, 1931
15. London Smog, 1952
16. London Routemaster bus having it’s destinations roll changed in the depot.
17. London Zoo
18. Monument Street 1920s
19. London’s smallest fire station. From Picture Post, September 16th 1939.
20. London, the Thames river frozen in 1895
21. The Prospect Of Whitby, a public house on the River Thames at Wapping, 26th September 1942.
22. Piccadilly Circus 1963
23. Piccadilly, c. 1900
24. St Paul’s Cathedral from Bankside, c. 1920
25. Old London, circa 1870
26. Matchgirls participating in a strike against Bryant & May in London, 1888.
27. Oxford Street, London 1889
28. Liverpool St Station in 1959- The Great London Smog
29. Parliament Street and Whitehall, London, 1959
30. St Pauls 1926
31. Workmen high above on the Gantry of Tower Bridge c.1900s
32. London, June 1922 traffic
33. London, England, 1960s
34. Thames frozen 1963
35. London police carry off an anti-nuclear demonstrator who had staged a sit-down protest in Parliament Square, March 1962.
36. 165 Church Street, c 1920
37. 1920s London in Color
38. A member of the Achille Serre Ladies Fire Brigade in London. 1926
39. Henri Cartier-Bresson, Trafalgar Square on the Day of the Coronation of George VI, 1937
40. london music shop 1960s
Source: oldpicsarchive.com
