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    56 Amazing Vintage Photos of Everyday Life in London in the 1920s

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    Most of the pictures here come from the triple volume Wonderful London, with many of them by photographer Donald McLeish. Published in the 1920s and long out of print, this huge work is an astonishing feat and a valuable addition to the history of the capital.

    The Thames & Tower Bridge
    Sheep in the Strand
    Cricket on Parliament Hill Fields
    Young boy with policewomen
    Football in the east end
    Serpentine, Hyde Park
    Hyde Park
    Portable bells and pram
    Site of Millenium Bridge & Tate Modern
    Hyde Park
    Hampstead Heath donkey rides
    Lincoln’s Inn Fields
    Whitestone Pond, Hampstead Heath
    Trafalgar Square
    Charlie Chaplin tribute act!
    Children at play
    Street toy sellers, Holborn
    Hampstead ponds
    Fog in Charing Cross
    Lunch break by the Tower Of London
    Water cart, Poplar

    London in the 1920’s
    Sheep by the Serpentine
    Whip Woman
    Ice-cream seller
    Islington window cleaner
    All night coffee stall, Hyde Park Corner
    Breton onion seller
    Billingsgate & Monument
    Chimney sweep
    Shepherd
    Pavement artist, Victoria Embankment
    The cats-meat man
    Caledonian Market
    Caledonian Market
    Farringdon, in the precincts of old Alsatia
    Westminster Bridge
    Telephone engineer, Mayfair
    pea shellers
    ladies rifle club, rooftop, Strand House
    Street brass band
    Street musicians
    Street escapologist
    Borough of Stepney
    Street hawkers, King’s Cross
    Street gramophone player
    Street organ grinder
    Street entertainers
    Golf on Adelaide House
    Street knife grinder
    Selling programmes and favours outside Chelsea Football Club
    The fortune telling parrakeet
    Street hawker
    Street flower seller, Victoria
    Street shoeblack
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