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 |










































