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