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.
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| The Thames & Tower Bridge |
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| Sheep in the Strand |
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| Cricket on Parliament Hill Fields |
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| Young boy with policewomen |
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| Football in the east end |
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| Serpentine, Hyde Park |
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| Hyde Park |
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| Portable bells and pram |
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| Site of Millenium Bridge & Tate Modern |
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| Hyde Park |
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| Hampstead Heath donkey rides |
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| Lincoln’s Inn Fields |
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| Whitestone Pond, Hampstead Heath |
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| Trafalgar Square |
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| Charlie Chaplin tribute act! |
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| Children at play |
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| Street toy sellers, Holborn |
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| Hampstead ponds |
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| Fog in Charing Cross |
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| Lunch break by the Tower Of London |
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| Water cart, Poplar |
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| London in the 1920’s |
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| Sheep by the Serpentine |
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| Whip Woman |
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| Ice-cream seller |
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| Islington window cleaner |
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| All night coffee stall, Hyde Park Corner |
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| Breton onion seller |
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| Billingsgate & Monument |
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| Chimney sweep |
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| Shepherd |
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| Pavement artist, Victoria Embankment |
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| The cats-meat man |
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| Caledonian Market |
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| Caledonian Market |
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| Farringdon, in the precincts of old Alsatia |
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| Westminster Bridge |
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| Telephone engineer, Mayfair |
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| pea shellers |
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| ladies rifle club, rooftop, Strand House |
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| Street brass band |
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| Street musicians |
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| Street escapologist |
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| Borough of Stepney |
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| Street hawkers, King’s Cross |
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| Street gramophone player |
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| Street organ grinder |
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| Street entertainers |
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| Golf on Adelaide House |
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| Street knife grinder |
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| Selling programmes and favours outside Chelsea Football Club |
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| The fortune telling parrakeet |
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| Street hawker |
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| Street flower seller, Victoria |
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| Street shoeblack |