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Fresh fish, storied history at Billingsgate seafood market
If you’re eating fish in London, chances are it came from Billingsgate Market. The seafood supplier handles 250 tonnes of it a week and...
5 alternative history walks in London
Take a look at a different side of the London story Carnaby Street in the '60s and '00s ...
Retired fireman recalls surprising impressions of old Southwark, 1970s London
The headquarters of the London Fire Brigade were once located in Southwark Bridge Road. (Photo credit: Courtesy Dave Pike, left, and...
Mayor Sadiq Khan plans solution to London's historic air pollution problem
Above left, a van checks London air and noise quality levels on Westminster Bridge in 1971 (Photo: Collage - The London Picture Archive);...
Lights out at Piccadilly Circus
Piccadilly Circus today (Lisa Nordbo Fiil) and with the Shaftesbury Memorial boarded up with advertisements during WWII If you've braved...
Loo bars: 5 alternatives to London pubs
Discover the city's former Victorian toilets that have been refurbished into trendy drinking spots The public loo next to Clapham Common...
Survivors of The Great Fire still stand
The Hoop & Grapes is still open on Aldgate High Street in Whitechapel (right picture: Lisa Nordbo Fiil, left picture: Collage) Most of...
Temple Bar twice painstakingly preserved
Above left, visitors pass through Temple Bar in its current location at Paternoster Square in February, 2017. Right, the Temple Bar gate...
News, not fake: Fleet Street's real connection to London media
Fleet Street in 2017, (left, Ashley Winchester) and in its heyday in 1890 (right, Collage - The London Picture Archive). Fleet street,...
Molly houses, the gay clubs of 18th century's London
Left, Shoe Lane today (Lisa Nordbo Fiil) and illustration of Field Lane in 1830, which used to be located here (Wilson, J.T., from the...
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