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"I love dis great polluted place/ Where pop stars come to live their dreams/ Here ravers come for drum and bass/ And politicians plan their schemes,/ The music of the world is here/ Dis city can play any song/ They came to here from everywhere/ Tis they that made dis city strong." - from Benjamin Zephaniah's 'The London Breed'

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Here Are 15 Tweets By British People That Cracked Us Up This Week (November 9th, 2018) - CheezCake - Parenting | Relationships | Food | Lifestyle

41 Funny Signs You'd Only See In Britain

Silly Stuff

Remedies for cholera, 1832 Wellcome L0000612 - Category:1832 in London - Wikimedia Commons

British Library HS 74/1512 (6) A Cure for the Plague?

An 1860s public notice..An 1860s public notice advising inhabitants of the London east end districts of Limehouse, Ratcliff, Shadwell and Wapping to boil all water before use to prevent the spread of cholera Photograph: Wellcome Library, London...feb16

The Great Plague & The Great Fire (1665-1666)

How London's Food And Drink Streets Got Their Names ― an article via Londonist, June 2016.

Southwark Street

London's best signs

Signs and notices

Optician built into St Ethelburga’s, Bishopsgate, c.1910 This church is a rare survival of the medieval City churches that were mostly destroyed during the Great Fire of London in 1666. It was rebuilt to its original plan (though much changed internally) after the church was half destroyed by an IRA bomb in 1993

Westminster Abbey, 1980s - Film 39129 - YouTube

Religious buildings & ceremonies

Festival of Britain 1951 | Skylon

The 1951 Festival of Britain: The river walk on the South Bank. The sculpture of 'The Islanders' and part of the Skylon are visible.

Museums, Galleries and Exhibitions

Blue-Plaques-infographic

Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle green plaque (Westminster) - Category:Langham Hotel, London - Wikimedia Commons

Joe Meek plaque, London - Category:Joe Meek lived, worked and died here (black plaque), Islington - Wikimedia Commons

Blue Plaques in London

STIK - After the Hackney Riots, London

Camden Town Street Art, London, England #travel #art #streetart #urbanart

The site of the Curtain Theatre/The Modern Thinker | Flickr

Street Art & Graffiti

Sexism-- or Gender Discrimination is prejudice or discrimination based on a person's sex or gender. Sexism can affect any gender, but it is particularly documented as affecting women and girls.[1] It has been linked to stereotypes and gender roles,[2][3] and may include the belief that one sex or gender is intrinsically superior to another. Extreme sexism may foster sexual harassment, rape, and other forms of sexual violence.

20x16 inch (50x40cm) ready to hang Box Canvas Print. Members of the Matchmakers Union who went on strike at the Bryant and May's factory in London. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). 1 1, 1 4 h lab t, 20547, 216, 2695394, 346, 6277, format, h lab strike 1880, occupations factoryworker europe britain england, orig, portrait female youth roles, union. Image supplied by Fine Art Storehouse. Product ID:dmcs_11800642_80945_367

Rock Against Racism: Photographs Of The Music Revolution - Flashbak

Demos & Protests

Second Lieutenant Walter Tull was the first black British Army officer; served in WWI

BLACK SOLDIERS IN THE BRITISH ARMY | Former Spurs Player Walter Tull is the most celebrated Black British soldier who achieved the rank of Lieutenant.

#48 Sir Douglas Haig at the Cenotaph in 1919 ~ Churchman's Cigarettes, "The Story of London" (series of 50 issued in 1934) | via Flickr

World War One

Piccadilly Circus London at night

The Night City

#15 A Joust on London Bridge, 1390 ~ Churchman's Cigarettes, "The Story of London" (series of 50 issued in 1934) Between an English and a Scottish knight, to decide who was braver ~ the Scottigh knight, Sir David de Lindasy won. | via Flickr

LONDON/TRANSPORT: Keb, Sir ?'' the growler and some of its old drivers; Vintage photographic book illustration, 1926; approximate size 24.5 x 19.0cm, 9.5 x 7.5 inches

Battersea-Power-Station

London Animals

London Necropolis Railway Station – London, England - Atlas Obscura

Necropolis Railway one way tickets

Railway Stations

sweeney todd penny dreadful

14th Century Graffiti, Tower of London, England

Crime and Punishment

old Wembley stadium - saw aerosmith here :)

"1908 Olympic Games"

1908 Olympics: The Great and Historical Marathon Race

Sporting Events & Venues

1747 Isle of Dogs as shown in John Rocque's map of London, showing the area before development. en.wikipedia.org

Heathrow Before World War II Map - Heathrow (hamlet) — Wikipedia Republished // WIKI 2

Maps & Plans of London

Photos of Mid-Seventies London by David Rostance - Flashbak

Buses & Trams

Camden Town; London. Head over to theculturetrip.com for details on the city of London.

Gunnersbury Station Sign (109807153) - Category:London Underground station signs - Wikimedia Commons

East London Line sign including Old Shoreditch Station (taken from District Line) - Category:London Underground signs - Wikimedia Commons

Overground and Docklands Light Railway (DLR)

London Underground

To appreciate Westminster is to walk around and truly take in the glorious, historic places. Cameras just can't capture the centuries of awe in one place.

London Underground

The Tiny island on the Thames that once held The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, and the UK’s Largest Hippie Commune | Messy Nessy Chic

The Tiny island on the Thames that once held The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, and the UK’s Largest Hippie Commune | Messy Nessy Chic

"Singin' in the Rain" - Photographed, appropriately enough, in the rain.

Entertainment

pearly king and queen by Alice Pattulllo

The 1970s

A fruit and vegetable wholesaler displays a list of his goods on a blackboard at Covent Garden Market, London during 1940.

Londoners

View under Waterloo Bridge towards Hungerford Bridge, Westminster Bridge, & Palace of Westminster, c. 1910.

10x8 Inch (25x20cm) Print. An interior view of Traitor's Gate at the Tower of London, leading from the River Thames, 1798. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). of, 555, 16355, river, 82658613, london, england, 41768, j152305107, history, tower, 49001, gate, t, thames, river, gateway, arch, nobody, t bri london tower traitors. Image supplied by Fine Art Storehouse

Bridges, Docks, & the River Thames

Towards the end of the Second World War families were housed in tiny prefabricated homes and told they'd be there for only a couple of years. I took this photo of the last remaining Nissen huts in Bridge Road in Stratford in June 1969.

BATTERSEA POWER STATION, 1967 Seen from near Clapham Junction

Photographic Print: East End Doss House, London Poster by Peter Higginbotham : 24x18in

Housing

Plaque erected in 1988 by English Heritage at Railway Bridge, Grove Road, Bow, London E3, London Borough of Tower Hamlets

London world war 2

Nippies" sleeping in their own air-raid shelter in the basement of a Lyons tea-shop have morning tea brought to them by a colleague before rising in the morning. These waitresses remain on the premises so as to be able to serve early breakfasts following an appeal from the Ministry of Food. ' (Evening Post, 30 November 1940)

World War Two & the Blitz

Skyscrapers reach above the clouds

London at Night | Revue

Aerial Photography & Satellite Images

The Cambridge Arms, Kingston Upon Thames, c.1915. Demolished 2002.

Old Mitre Pub, Clerkenwell, London. I feel like I know every nook and cranny of Clerkenwell.

The Photographers of 1870s London Who Documented Their Disappearing City

Pubs, Hotels, Restaurants & Cafes