London was covered in "fog" at the beginning of the 20th Century, culminating in the Great Smog in 1952.
When you hear the words "pea soup", you probably think of, well, pea soup. But pea soup is also the name of a particular type of thick fog, and in the early 20th century London was literally drowning in it.
Anthony Eden is and was a born gentleman.
The images were taken by Clifton R. Adams, who was sent to England by National Geographic magazine to photograph life in the country.
The first buses to come into service did so slightly earlier, though – back in London. As soon as the war began, London’s buses were pressed into action. Here is a small collection of vintage pictures that show London's traffic with kinds of wonderful buses in the early 20th century. A bus and a midget car in a London street, 1928 An early double decker bus on a London street, 1905 Bus at the corner of Tottenham Court Road, London Buses and trolleybuses in Kings Cross, London, ca. 1930s Buses in London, 1927 Crowded bus on a street, London, 1928 Hammersmith Bridge, London, 1900 Karl Sander, a former German circus performer, demostrates his novel way of advertising as he rides besides a bus in Streatham in south London, 9 August 1932 Kingsland Road, London, 1929 London Bus in autochrome, 1928 Ludgate Circus, London, 1927 On Tottenham Court Road, 1927 On Westminster Bridge, ca. 1910 Piccadilly Circus, London, 1939 Street scene at Trafalgar Square in the winter of 1915 Traffic in London, 1927 Victoria bus station in London, 1927 Buses in front of the National Gallery in London, 1927 Street traffic on London Bridge, 1927
Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Postcard, early 20th century.
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Have you heard the phrase “it’s a dirty job but somebody’s got to do it?” That could apply any of the dangerous and death defying jobs from the 20th century that we’ve catalogued here. Regardless of where they lived, people have always wanted to provide for their families.
The Higgins Bedford strides across the British art century with a major exhibition featuring the Ingram Collection of Modern British and Contemporary Art If you’re interested in British art and design of the twentieth century, then the Higgins Bedford is...
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In a desperate bid to head off a Scottish Yes vote, David Cameron evoked a mythical British Empire that had given democracy to the poor and freedom to the slaves. Here Ken Olende looks back at what life was really like when Britannia ruled the waves
Just four miles from the centre of London Limehouse is now a luxurious area between the City and Canary Wharf.
Mrs Lock, Muchelney Ham, Somerset, 1904-1905. Photograph taken during Cecil Sharp's folk music collecting expeditions. British musician Sharp collected folk songs from older people in rural areas of...
