Old UK

42 Stunning photographs depict London’s street scenes from the 1930s

Here is a fantastic photo collection that shows street scenes of London in the 1930s.

A milk bar in Bear Street, central London, 1936
A trader on a horse and trap outside Long Acre in Covent Garden, circa 1930
A water cart man turns the water main on a group of boys to help them cool off in a street in Westminster, London during a heatwave, August 1930
A woman and her two daughters rooftopping Hillcott House, Haggerston, London 1938
Atmospheric London scene in the early 1930s
Boy at the Buckingham Palace, 1930
Camden Town in the 1930s
Camden Town in the 1930s
Central London, ca. late 1930s
Child staring into bakery window, London, 1935
Children on London streets, 1939
Children sailing pond yachts, London, 1930
Couple eating ice-cream, 1934
Evacuees from the East End of London during the Second World War, 1939
Foyles, Charing Cross Road, London, 1936
Girl riding on tricycle, London, 1934
Homeless man, London, 1931
J.P. Restaurants Ltd., London, 1930
Little girl with her kitten walking on London streets, 1931
Lockyer Street, Bermondsey, London, 1935
Lockyer Street, Bermondsey, London, 1935
London friends, 1935
London streets in the middle of 1930s
London’s Bond Street decorated for the wedding of the Duke of Kent and Princess Marina of Greece, 1934
London’s Lido, 1930
Lunch hour in the roof garden at Adelaide House, 1937
Milkman on Charing Cross Road, 1935
Miniature Southdown Leyland coach, ca. 1930s
Nannies looking after their charges beside the Serpentine in Hyde Park in 1938
Piccadilly Circus in the early 1930s
Piccadilly Circus, 1937
Regent street London, 1933-34
Sandwich board men parading outside the London Palladium, 1937
Shoeshine in London, 1936
Street scene in London, 1933
Street scene in London, ca. 1930s
Traffic signals on Oxford St, London, 1935
Victoria Bus Termina, 1939