Londoners Collection (page 3)

Two laughing young Cockney scamps Date: 1890s

Observations at a Cockney Funeral - Phil May
One Easter Monday. Arriet (watching the funeral of Liza) - " Nice sort of Bank Oliday for er, poor dear!" Date: 1900

Cockneys visiting a Royal Navy Gunboat
An Honest London Taxpayer wanting full value for his contributions! Visiting Day on a Gunboat. Arry: " Is the Captain in?" Jack: " Yes, hes aboard

Cockney London Flowergirl sells buttonhole to city gent
A Cockney London Flowergirl sells a buttonhole bouquet to a well-to-do city gentleman. Date: 1895

Two Cockney Costers having a jovial chat: " Wots th row up the Court, Bill?" " Bob Smith was kissing my Missus, and is Old Woman caught im!" Date: 1892

Two Cockney ladies admiring an artist
Two Cockney ladies admiring (?) an artist and is bloomin at ! Date: 1895

Happy Hampstead - Coster Saleswoman at Hampstead Fair, who also seems quite open to offers for her noisy offspring! Date: 1899

Cockney ladies discuss their romantic life
Two Cockney ladies discuss their romantic life - cartoon by Phil May. There appears to have been a muddle up between the word clandestine and the word incandescent

Cockney Coster Woman - caricature by Phil May
" Shes just about the neatest, sweetest and prettiest Donah in the whole wide world" - lyrics to a Coster song by Albert Chevalier - caricature by Phil May Date: 1892

Coster Cockney couple embracing on a park bench on Hampstead Heath. Date: 1890s

Cockney lovers - marriage proposal on the grass - " How do you fancy having awkins as your other name?!". Lyrics fom a coster song by Albert Chevalier. Date: 1898

Costers and Cockneys. Having a straight conversation! Date: 1895

London. Customs House. Engraving. SPAIN. Barcelona. Biblioteca de Catalunya (National Library of Catalonia)

London Stock Exchange (19th c. ). Engraving
London Stock Exchange (19th c.). Engraving

United Kingdom. England. Greater London. London
UNITED KINGDOM. ENGLAND. GREATER LONDON. London. Westminster Abbey. Choir

Westminster Abbey. UNITED KINGDOM. London. Westminster

London. Inauguration of Tower Bridge on June 30, 1894. Engraving

SPENSER, Edmund (1552-1599). The Faerie Queen
" SPENSER, Edmund (1552-1599). The Faerie Queen" and " The Shepheards Calendar". English edition 1617."

CROMWELL, Oliver (1599-1658). English Puritan politician and military man. Medal. ITALY. Florence. Bargello National Museum

UNITED KINGDOM. ENGLAND. London. Westminster Abbey. Sculpture detail. Gothic art

Sheltering on underground stations 1940
During the blitz of the Second World War, Londoners made uses of the underground tube stations as air raid shelters, because they felt secure. Date: 1940

Regents Park, London, 1863
Engraving showing a number of Victorian Londoners strolling in the gardens of Regents Park, London, in 1863. This image was published in the Illustrated London News to illustrate the improvements

Street music: cheerful Londoners having fun
A cheery line of Londoners march together up a street on market day, one playing an squeeze box. Date: 1900

Taking cover in Piccadily underground
A photograph of Londoners using an underground station as bomb shelter during an air raid in 1940. Date: 1940

Chelsea Foreshore
Stretching along the foreshore to the west of Chelsea Bridge, London, is this long line of old sailing barges. This Barges Graveyard houses many bohemian artistic Londoners. Date: 1940s

The Last Bus Home
Londoners struggle to get on the last bus home in the pouring rain. Date: circa 1900s

VE Day 1945 - Piccadilly Circus
A young man in an odd ensemble consisting of jumper, jacket, hat and shorts, clutches a bottle of something strong-looking during joyous VE Day celebrations at Piccadilly Circus in Central London

VE Day Celebrations in London, May 1945
A flag seller does a roaring trade offering Allied flags for sale during the VE Day celebrations in London on 8th May 1945

VE Day Celebrations - Piccadilly Circus
Jubilant scenes in Piccadilly Circus in Central London as crowds celebrate VE (Victory in Europe) Day on the 8th May 1945. 1945

London Blitz 1941
A mother smiles with her children amid the ruins of a typical working class home, following a bombing raid overnight and in the early morning on 20th March 1941. Date: March 1941

Queen Elizabeth meeting bombed London residents
Queen Elizabeth, later the Queen Mother giving one of her gracious and charming smiles as she meets and sympathises with London residents in bomb damaged areas during the Blitz

Peace in the Strand
Londoners celebrate the victorious conclusion of the war in the Crimea by whooping it up in the Strand outside the premises of the Illustrated London News. Date: 1856

Epping Forest
Some of the trees which compose Epping Forest, Essex, a favourite destination for holiday-making Londoners

The General Strike - travelling by trailer
Londoners travelling by a steam-wagon and trailer combination past the Royal Exchange in the City of London during the General Strike

Kensington Toll Gate, London, c. 1864
Engraving showing the Kensington turnpike toll gate in London, c.1864. After many years campaigning by Londoners, a large number of toll gates were removed from the citys roads in the early 1860 s

Notting Hill Toll Gate, London, c. 1864
Engraving showing the turnpike toll gate at Notting Hill, London, c.1864. After many years of campaigning by Londoners, many toll gates were removed in the early 1860 s

Islington Toll Gate, London, c. 1864
Islington Toll Gate, London, c.1864

Amateur photography in the East End of London, 1895
Illustration showing a crowd of East Londoners gathering around an amateur photographer, 1895. At that time, the presence of an affluent photographer keen to take photographs of East End life

Greenwich Park, London, 1849
Engraving showing Londoners enjoying Greenwich Park during their Easter holidays, 1849

Mr. Hughes Mammoth Troupe moving through London, 1847
Engraving showing Hughes Mammoth Troupe moving through the streets of London on their way to the Drury Lane Theatre, March 1847

East End Chip Shop
Hungry Londoners buy supper at an East-End fried fish shop

Televising a unit of Londons Land Defence Force against ene
In December 1936 the B.B.C carried out its first transmission from outside at night. A mock air-raid was staged so that Londoners could see how the Territorial Army had prepared itself for the onset

Waiting for the excursion train
On the departure platform of a suburban branch of the Great West-Eastern Railway. Five hundred Londoners scrambling to board the second and third class carriages for Bank Holiday excursions

Bathing in the Fleet R
Londoners bathing in the Fleet River : Here strip my Children, here at once leap in, Here prove who best can dash thro thick and thin

Londoners, 1690S
Two Londoners stand on a hill on the Surrey side of the Thames so that we may see their city behind them

Wilkes Riots 1768
Scene in the streets of London during the Wilkes and liberty rioting, when enthusiastic Londoners demonstrate their support for the rejected radical MP

Coal Exchange, London
The Coal Exchange is where the 960, 000 chaldrons of coal (each of 36 bushels) imported from Newcastle etc each year to keep Londoners warm, are regulated and, of course, taxed

Bread Riot / London / 1815
Londoners riot in protest against the high cost of bread outside the entrance to Parliament, Westminster

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