Central London photos - parks, buildings, street scenes and London life

[blossie33]

1937 london (the bit that isn't west end looks like hammersmith)

Germany spying out the city pre WW2

 

[editor]

Soho twenty years ago

In photos: a look around the streets of Soho in central London, back in early 2003 -

Continuing my occasional series of archive London photos, here's a selection of images taken around Frith Street, Old Compton Street, Carnaby Street and Soho in early 2003. Join the forum chat Central London photos – parks, buildings, street scenes and London life (over 150 posts) London forum...

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[marty21]

Soho twenty years ago

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In photos: a look around the streets of Soho in central London, back in early 2003 -

Continuing my occasional series of archive London photos, here's a selection of images taken around Frith Street, Old Compton Street, Carnaby Street and Soho in early 2003. Join the forum chat Central London photos – parks, buildings, street scenes and London life (over 150 posts) London forum...

www.urban75.org

The picture outside Bar Italia was interesting - couldn't see anyone on their phones - phones in those days just about made calls and texts - and maybe snake , but no other reason to be on them

 

[Puddy_Tat]

 

[BusLanes]

Wonder what day of the week that was recorded as it doesn't look busy at all. Also looked quite clean at least till the horizon shots where there looked to be a bit of smog

 

[pbsmooth]

impressive garden in the sky in Marylebone.

 

[Epona]

impressive garden in the sky in Marylebone.

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It looks like those buildings have some snazzy hairstyles

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Original Rough Trade shop in 1994, taken just as my time in London was coming to an end.

 

[MrSki]

 

[Puddy_Tat]

 

[MrSki]

Sorry.

EDITED to ADD an AI generated

Central London street view Sixties-ish.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

 

[RoyReed]

Nasty bit of AI generated crap if you ask me.

 

[ash]

Nasty bit of AI generated crap if you ask me.

I agree those cars don’t look very English !

 

[RoyReed]

The cars aren't UK - look at the number plates - and look at the towers of Tower Bridge. They've been offset from each other, the high level footbridge connecting them is missing and god knows where that bus belongs.

 

[clicker]

The cars aren't UK - look at the number plates - and look at the towers of Tower Bridge. They've been offset from each other, the high level footbridge connecting them is missing and god knows where that bus belongs.

Yes I can't think of anywhere you'd need to stand to get the bridge pillars in that direction.

 

[MrSki]

The two cars at the front are touching too. Have edited but left up for clarity.

 

[clicker]

The two cars at the front are touching too. Have edited but left up for clarity.

I think they're both trying to run over the postman.

 

[Epona]

I had a little spare time in a part of London I rarely have reason to visit these days, so took the opportunity to have a little wander as it was such a lovely day!



Interesting shop front...

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I had a little spare time in a part of London I rarely have reason to visit these days, so took the opportunity to have a little wander as it was such a lovely day!

Interesting shop front...

don't know if you've seen the 'london inheritance' blog (basically, he's going round london re-visiting his late father's photos from the 50s onward) - he did a piece on evans' dairy and surrounding area

Warren Street and J.Evans, Dairy Farmer - A London Inheritance

Warren Street runs parrallel to Euston Road. Built in the 18th century, once home to used car dealers, French's Theatre Bookshop and Evans Dairy Corner Shop

alondoninheritance.com

i've read somewhere that by the victorian era, something close to half the dairies in london were run by welsh farmers who had moved to london.

 

[Epona]

don't know if you've seen the 'london inheritance' blog (basically, he's going round london re-visiting his late father's photos from the 50s onward) - he did a piece on evans' dairy and surrounding area

Warren Street and J.Evans, Dairy Farmer - A London Inheritance

Warren Street runs parrallel to Euston Road. Built in the 18th century, once home to used car dealers, French's Theatre Bookshop and Evans Dairy Corner Shop

alondoninheritance.com

i've read somewhere that by the victorian era, something close to half the dairies in london were run by welsh farmers who had moved to london.

Oh brilliant, thanks for the link!
It's a lovely frontage, glad to learn that it is listed

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Oh brilliant, thanks for the link!

and more here - tried to find this yesterday and didn't

Welsh dairies

J. Evans Dairy a Grade II listed building on the corner of Warren Street and Conway Street. Built 1793 and tiles circ. 1916 a rare surviving example of a Welsh dairy. [I]T IS A CUT THROUGH we cabbi…

cabbieblog.com

 

[blossie33]

I used to work near Warren Street so I know that shop - great frontage!

 

[editor]

This coloured pic is wonderful

A rainy day on Fleet Street
October 1915 is depicted in this picture. Discussing the presence of advertising on the streets of London, Ackroyd writes that by the middle of the 19th century, London's business premises had 'a variety of papier-mache ornaments or paintings to denote the trade of the occupant'. 'Many coffee houses had a symbol of a loaf and cheese together with a cup... the destruction of Pompeii seemed a fitting advertisement for a patent cockroach exterminator,' the book says. By the end of the 19th century, the ground-floor shops of the city provided 'bursts of colour and variety' with their signs

Credit & Photo TropicalPressAgency/GettyImages/JordanJ Lloyd
From Old London Photos

 

[ouirdeaux]

So few umbrellas, so many hats.

 

[Epona]

So few umbrellas, so many hats.

Quite right too, umbrellas are a menace on crowded streets.
Hats are better and generally speaking less likely to have someone's eye out!

 

[editor]

Tour the streets of a 1970 London. See the double-decker buses and the black cabs that lined the streets featuring timeless landmarks like Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, and Trafalgar Square.

 

[MrSki]

Post Office tower under construction.

 

[editor]

Utterly criminal that this building got flattened...




...and replaced by this chunk of meh:

 

[oryx]

Utterly criminal that this building got flattened...


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...and replaced by this chunk of meh:

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Blimey, that monstrosity is listed!