A small collection of rare vintage photographs of London, taken between the 1910s and 1910s, from the Archives of English Heritage. The photographs provide a unique record of whole districts of London as they were vanishing…
Arch, Shepherd’s Place, off White’s Row, now Tenter Ground, Spitalfields, 1909. |
Evans and Witt, Stationers and Bookbinders, Booksellers and Tobacconists, ca. 1900s. |
Cloth Fair, Smithfield, 1906. |
House with shop, ca. 1900s. |
8 Bow Churchyard, Cheapside, 1908 – near St Paul’s. |
The Foundling Hospital, ca. 1912. The Boys’ Dining Room with bench seating. |
The chapel. |
Printing press, 20-22 Millbank Street, 1906. |
34 Albury Street, Deptford, 1911. Nursery in ground floor rear room. |
Bear Yard, ca. 1906. |
Bear Yard, 1906. |
13 and 14 Archer Street, 1908. |
Outside of the building, 1908. |
(Photographs from ‘Lost London: 1870-1945’ by Philip Davies)