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Dalston junction station Hackney London 1987

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Shabby but not Chic - Photos of Wapping and Whitechapel in 1973 -

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St Pancras Station 1867 being built The basement’s 800 uniform cast-iron columns supporting the station floor from below were placed 14 feet apart, a spacing dictated by the dimensions of the beer barrels from the breweries of Burton-on-Trent, which were to be stored there

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Hoover Building factory's canteen block from the south Hoover Building, Western Avenue, Perivale, Ealing London EHA

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Tollington pub 115 Hornsey Road, Holloway London europeana

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1937 Odeon Cinema, Parsons Hill, Woolwich, Greenwich London EHA

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1936 Odeon Cinema, Well Hall Road, Eltham, Greenwich London EHA

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Two woman living in Shoreditch slums, 1922. Surviving and bringing up a family in desperate conditions, washing on line baby resting in a tin bath. topfoto

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Dalston Junction, 1987 #flickr

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Children packing tea at Butlers Wharf, London From 1921 children had to be at least 12 years old before they could work full-time, though some of these boys look younger. They appear to be labelling tins of tea. Their work benches are made of wooden panels and upturned tea chests

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Hackney helped 3826 refugees from the Spanish Civil War The children, who arrived at Salvation Army Citadel Congress Hall on Limscott Road in Clapton from Southhampton. in July 1936 They were met by a crowd of some two thousand Hackney residents waiting with gifts Hackney Citizen

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Manze's Pie And Mash Shop, 76 High Street, Walthamstow, Waltham Forest,

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@theIMEU Sippenhaft in Nazi Germany, the term was revived to justify the punishment of kin (relatives, spouse) for offence of a family member. In Sippenhaft relatives of persons accused of crimes against the state were held to share the responsibility for those crimes & subject to arrest.

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the Tea Rooms at Liverpool Street Station EHA

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Vine Tavern, 31 Mile End Road, Mile End Gate Stepney E1 The Vine is thought to have been present by 1625, this pub was demolished in 1903.

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Regents Canal "Eastern entrance to Islington Tunnel with the Tunnel Keeper and wife at their cottage

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Priamo Pellicci began working in the cafe in 1900 and it was here that his wife Elide brought up their seven children single-handedly whilst running the cafe below to keep the family after her husband’s death in 1931. Elide is the E. Pellicci whose initial is still emblazoned in

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The River Thames-The snow started on Boxing Day 1962 and I remember piles of frozen snow in April 1963 I was working out in the open and it was cold

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Last of the Steam trains Chingford to Liverpool Street at Wood Street station Walthamstow October 1960 Walthamstow in pictures facebook

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St Pancras Goods Yard (now The British Library) Euston Road.

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July 1912. Children from London’s East End wait outside a hall in Salmon Lane Limehouse for free meals. article from telegraph

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ONCE A FAMOUS DALSTON LANDMARK is the business of F. Cooke's Eel and Pie Shop. The family business goes back to 1862 when Robert Cooke opened his first shop in Brick Lane. The premises at 41 Kingsland High Street opened in 1910 and was renowned for the beautiful interior tiles,

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Exterior and interior view of the Tea Rooms within Liverpool Street Station London,EHA

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Earl's Court Farm, 1867. Mr Alloway, owner, 2nd on left in a bowler hat. Earls Court Station stands here today.

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The marble-lined Soho Marshall Street Pool in London opened in 1931 glad to I was one of many others who fought to save it from demolition

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The Aquascutum shirt factory in 1953 corner Forest road and Black Horse road next to the station Walthamstow

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Hackney Town Hall tonight in support of Diane Abbott

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London can be a grief-inducing city. Everyone loves the London they first knew, whether as the place they grew up or the city they arrived in, and everyone loses it. As the years pass, the city bound with your formative experience changes, bearing less and less resemblance to the

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Quick Lunch and Snack Bar at Paddington Station, 1936 An interior view of Paddington station showing a busy snack bar, which probably opened soon after the modernisation of the station in the 1930s. The GWR roundel logo adorns the top of the doorway © STEAM Museum of the GWR

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Columbia Market, Bethnal Green 1946 This extraordinary building missed the blitz but was demolished in 1958 jtforums

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Leabridge this is what happens when you build on disused lock

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The Holborn viaduct under construction, City of London, 11 September 1869. Henry Dixon

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Prospect Of Whitby pub 57 Wapping Wall Shadwell Stepney on the bank of River Thames. Originally built in 1520 and known as the Devil's Tavern through its association with thieves & smugglers Its name was changed to the Prospect of Whitby in 1777 SW Rawlings1945 EnglishHeritageNMR

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Horse Shoe Brewery, 268 Tottenham Court Road, Holborn, looking across Tottenham Court Road towards the Horse Shoe Brewery, premises of Meux's Brewery Company Limited. The Horse Shoe Brewery was the source of the 1814 London Beer Flood when a huge vat within the brewery failed,

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Oxford Arms Inn, Oxford Arms Passage, Warwick Lane, City of London 1875. A&J Bool The Oxford arms was one of London's many seventeenth Century galleried coaching inns. Its demolition in 1876 was as controversial as the demolition of the Euston arch some 85 years later. The Inn

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Kingsway Tram station Holborn London in 1933 The Kingsway Tramway Subway is a cut-and-cover Grade II Listed tunnel in central London, built by the London County Council, and the only one of its kind in Britain

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One of the most interesting reactions to come out of 1968 was in the first publication of the Trilateral Commission, which believed there was a 'crisis of democracy' from too much participation of the masses. Noam Chomsky

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Princess Louise, High Holborn – interior of 1891 by Arthur Chitty with tiles by W. B. Simpson & Sons and glass by R. Morris & Son @thegentleauthor spitalfieldslife

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@Harryslaststand I had pleurisy at a young age before NHS so my mother took me to the doctors and had to decide medicine for me or food for the family she paid the doctor and bought the medicine and we went without food

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Norman's Nosh Bar, Isle of Dogs, Tower Hamlets 1979 Peter Marshall

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1930s cycle lane, fenced-off from pedestrians, along Eastern Avenue, Ilford, Essex, 26th September 1937. (Photo by Derek Berwin/Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Private eye magazine

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The ornate interior of a public house on Edgware Road London 1960 John Gay EHA

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The White Hart pub, 10 Greenfield street, Mile End E1 open in 1817 one of my great grandfathers locals

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Four Swans Inn yard, Bishopsgate London, photographed by William Strudwick & demolished 1873 @thegentleauthor spitalfieldslife

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Today on Walthamstow Marsh is a round pond known as 'Bomb Crater Pond Crater marks point of impact of German V2 missile on 11 Feb1945 the crater is still there could be the last crater from V2 in Uk

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Highbury Corner from Holloway Road to Upper Street and Canonbury Road Islington 1959

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Black Friar, 174 Queen Victoria street, St Anns Blackfriars, London

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Old photo of Lambeth High Street in 1847.

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This map shows all of London’s lost rivers |

This map shows all of London’s lost rivers

Back in the day, the valley in which London sits was crisscrossed by waterways. As the city expanded, most of them were covered over and became part of the se

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Clapton Passage 1882 looking east towards Powerscroft Road from Clapton Square Clapton Hackney London

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Stoke Newington Cycling Club, at their Headquarters The Swan Pub Clapton Common Upper Clapton. 1886 or 1887

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A view across the Thames of the City waterfront taken from a multi-storey stable building close to Southwark Bridge, c. 1930 casebook

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The first Percy Ingle shop, Clarence Road, Clapton Hackney taken 1954

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Manze's pie & mash shop 74 Chapel Market Islington London interior in 1994 BHO

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Joseph Clough, known as Joe to his friends and family, was London’s first Black bus driver. He was also among the very first drivers of motor buses in London, as petrol engines began to replace horse-drawn transport.After a stint working as a roller skate fitter at Clapton roller

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Reading Station Refreshment Room 1914 The bar in this image is crammed full of delicious treats Cakes biscuits and fruit sit amongst flowers and GWR crockery. A sign at the back of the room advertises Hunter and Palmers, the famous Reading biscuit maker © STEAM Museum of the GWR

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News Theatre at Waterloo Station Station Approach Road, Waterloo London The News Theatre opened in 1934 at Waterloo Station. It was located by the entrance to Platform One at Waterloo Station. It closed in 1970, and was demolished in 1988. EHA 1934

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The last wall of Newgate prison is being demolished, allowing St Paul's to emerge in the background. This was the end of the last prison in the City of London. A prison had stood on this spot since at least the 12th century. Hangings, which had previously been held in public at

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Limehouse – London’s first Chinatown The mid-1880s had seen the beginnings of a Chinatown in London, with the establishment of grocery stores, eating houses, meeting places and Chinese street names in the East End. By 1890 two distinct yet small Chinese communities had developed

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The oldest photo still in existence of any Hackney subject shows the old Rectory in its last days before demolition shortly after 1855 early 16thC timber framed building. Site occupied by St Marys new church Stoke Newington HA

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Ace Cinema, Alexandra Avenue, Rayners Lane, Harrow, Located in the Rayners Lane district of Harrow, Middlesex, today part of northwest Greater London. The Grosvenor Cinema opened on 12th October 1936 with Jean Hersholt in “The Country Doctor”. It is most notable for its fantastic

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Arthur Toms Eel & Pie House 84 Chatsworth Road Clapton open before 1913 I used to have Pie & Mash in here in the 1950s inside had victorian fittings and decoration with pews for seating

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LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY. SOCIAL SERVICES DEPT. MEALS-ON-WHEELS Two workers with new meals-on-wheels van, Jan 1973 outside the Town Hall, Mare Street

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Anti-Nazi League marchers pictured behind a police escort while walking from Trafalgar Square to a concert organised with Rock Against Racism at Victoria Park, Hackney, London, April 1978 gettyimages

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Manze Pie And Mash Shop, 76 High Street, Walthamstow,

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The Vegetarian Cottage 2 Malvern Road, Hackney London, E8 the house was the founding site of the Vegetarian Society in the mid-19th century.

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Leyton swimming baths demolition halted after Roman building foundations were discovered

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Camden Catacombs London An interesting complex of tunnels and vaults are to be found close to the Roundhouse at Camden. The Camden Catacombs, as they have become known are were once owned by British Railways but have now passed into multiple ownership. Some sections were

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These ancient wooden cottages were in Colombo Street, previously Collingwood Street, previously Green Walk just south of Christ Church in Blackfriars Road London demolished @thegentleauthor spitalfieldslife

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East London Railway poster advertising travel to Crystal Palace, with text in Yiddish 1901 EAST LONDON RAILWAY /Billiga Prizem - CHEAP FARES / are [to] CRYSTAL PALACE / Dritta Klass Train Hin un Tzurik Tzuzamen mitten un Areigngang - Third Class train to and fro together to the

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The crowded entrance of Victoria Park in 1893

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During the 1970s and first half of the 80s photographer Neil Martinson recorded the lives of those who lived and worked in Hackney, east London. Neil Martinson photographed these nurses, protesting over pay outside Bethnal Green Hospital, for the Hackney People's Press

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Old pub - the Tabard Inn,Talbot Yard, Southwark, South London just before its demolition EHA

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Booking counter with its oak carved linenfold panelling in the booking hall at St Pancras Station Euston Road London 1960 John Gay EHA

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Woolworths, Chapel Market Islington London in 1998.

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Saffron Hill Rookery is a street in the south eastern corner of the London Borough of Camden, between Farringdon Road and Hatton Garden. The name of the street derives from the fact that it was at one time part of an estate on which saffron grew.

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King's Cross, Euston Road & lighthouse building 1899 #flickr

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Limehouse, London's original Chinatown, 1911 getty images

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E.J Palfreyman, Printer, Bookbinder & Stationer, High Rd, #Leytonstone - Philip Mernick’s East London Shopfronts @thegentleauthor spitalfieldslife

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@MarinaPurkiss @unojen_wood The Bill will remove the statutory duties to provide NHS hospital care in each area, and emergency care for everyone present in an area, and will end the requirement for social care needs assessments before a patient is discharged.

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Round House, Chalk Farm Road, Camden Town, LondonThe Round House in Camden Town was an engine shed, completed in 1847. It is seen here prior to conversion into an arts centre, with railway trucks outside. Photographer Eric de Mare Date Taken 1945 to 1967 English Heritage NMR

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A listed building, but in poor condition 777 Commercial Road was built in 1869 by William Cubitt & Company as a sail-makers-and-ship-chandlers warehouse. Occupied by Caird & Rayner marine engineers from 1889 to 1972

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Joseph Bazalgettes Crossness Pumping Station ornate interior

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The giant arch at Euston station (above) was demolished in the 1960s, to much anger. But it hasn't entirely vanished. Many of the stones have been recovered from an east London waterway, and there are tentative plans to rebuild the structure. The most impressive survivor, though

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Cafeteria, West Ham Power Station, West Ham, 1983 photo Peter Marshall see #flickr

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With a ladder and some glasses you can see the 'Ackney Marshes If it wasn't for the 'ouses in between. Sheet music. look&learn

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Victoria Underground station, District line, 23 Nov 1896 LTR

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A Printing shop in the front garden of House number 235 Lower Clapton Road on the right hand side of the White Hart pub in 1880 Clapton Hackney London E5 hackneyarchives

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The last horse-drawn barge on the River Lea

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Limehouse, in Stepney, was London's first Chinatown. The Chinese began settling in Limehouse before 1850, arriving as seamen or ship's launderers. By 1890 sailors from Shanghai were colonizing Pennyfields, Amoy Place and Ming Street, while those from Guangzhou (Canton) and

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52-55 Newington Green, Islington, London. Photographer: Fin Fahey. (This is London's oldest surviving brick terrace, dated 1658).

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Grand opening of the new Central Library on Mare Street Hackney on 28 May 1908 passing second Town Hall, Britannia pub and Hackney Empire

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F W Woolworth And Company Limited, 612 - 614 Lea Bridge Road, Leyton, 1939 Historic England Archive

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178 Bus passing Lord Napier pub Hackney Wick 1967 #flickr

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A vanished theatre on the borders of Hoxton, just before demolition, photographed by William Whiffin. In 1838, a tea garden by the name of ‘the Eagle Tavern’ in Shepherdess Walk in the City Rd @thegentleauthor spitalfieldslife

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BLACKSTOCK LANE. [ Blackstock Road ] Finsbury Park 1832

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Eyre St Hill, Little Italy, c. 1890

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