The London We Once knew

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london, 1959

photo by sergio larrain, from london 1958-59

***please don’t repost this as your own

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The Frozen Thames 1677

By Abraham Hondius

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Henri Cartier-Bresson, Trafalgar Square on the Day of the Coronation of George VI, 1937

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A female air-warden carries a little girl after she had been rescued from her bombed home. England, The Second World War. IWM

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A policeman sounds the air raid warning in London, reminding citizens to get to shelter, 1939. IWM

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London, September 1, 1939. Getty

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A bromide print photograph entitled 'London Buses', by Ward Muir, 1916. The photograph shows early motor buses operated by the London General Omnibus Company.(via London)

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The Blitz, 1940. Associated Press

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Londoners walk through the rubble of their city to get to work. The Blitz, 1940. Getty

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An air-raid warden phones from a shattered booth after a bombing raid. London, 1940. George Rodger

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(via Colour Photographs of Trafalgar Square, 1950s | Retronaut)

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London’s Liverpool Street Station acting as an underground shelter during the Blitz, 1940. Bill Brandt

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Gants Hill Station (1947) by Charles Holden.

Originally designed in the 1930’s, the construction of this station was delayed until 1947. Holden had been consulting on the Moscow underground prior to designing the station, hence the resemblance in the pedestrian subway.

Image from Urban Design TFL.

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Sales in London, 1908. (via)

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An American soldier with war orphans ‘adopted’ by his unit, London, 1943. Robert Capa

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Children being evacuated from London during the ongoing German bombing, 1940

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A forgotten profession: In the days before alarm clocks were widely affordable, people like Mary Smith of Brenton Street were employed to rouse sleeping people in the early hours of the morning. They were commonly known as ‘knocker-ups’ or ‘knocker-uppers’. Mrs. Smith was paid sixpence a week to shoot dried peas at market workers’ windows in Limehouse Fields, London. Photograph from Philip Davies’ Lost London: 1870-1945.