Streets Collection (page 10)

Embankment torn to pieces for the trams 1906
London County Council beginning the construction of the electric tram-way along the Thames Embankment from Westminster Bridge, starting at the end of August 1909

Breton Pardon, Brittany, Northern France
People taking part in the traditional Breton Pardon, Brittany, Northern France. It involves a procession through the streets on a saints day, carrying a statue and reliquary of the patron saint. 1922

Village of d Heremence, Switzerland - Woman and Mule Rider on one of the narrow streets between the traditional wooden buildings. Date: 1908

Annual procession of the Holy Blood, Bruges, Belgium -- supposedly drops of Jesuss blood brought from the Holy Land in 1150 by Theodoric, Count of Flanders, preserved in a chapel in the Grand Place

Trenches dug in street, Porte Maillot, Paris, France, WW1
Trenches being dug across the street at Porte Maillot, Paris, 8 September 1914, at the start of the First World War. 1914

Procession at Fleet Street, day after Coronation
The procession of George V, going through the once was journalist headquarters, Fleet Street, London, on the 23rd June 1911. 23 June 1911

One-legged sweeper at Chancery-Lane, London circa 1850s

Funeral procession of Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Elizabeth I, reigned for 44 years and 127 days, longest reigning Tudor monarch, here showing the funeral procession pasting through the streets Westminster Abbey, London

Crossing-sweeper
Bearded crossing-sweeper at the Exchange, London. Date: circa 1850s

Irish crossing sweeper 1850s
Irish crossing sweeper, in the streets of London. Date: circa 1850s

French Revolution, 13th Vendemiaire, 5 October 1795
French Revolution - 13th Vendemiaire, 5 October 1795, a battle between the French Revolutionary troops and Royalist forces in the streets of Paris, and a success for General Napoleon Bonaparte. 1795

Automata newsboy and flower girl 1887
Aut-omata aut nullus, erected by the anti-street Brawling association, to replace newsboys and flower girls. Date: 1887

The Republican Constitution Accepted - Paris, France
The Republican Constitution accepted and celebrated with a parade through the streets of Paris - 10th August, 1793. Date: 1793

Saturn and his rings! only a penny 1856
Street telescope exhibitor in London. Attracting passers by to have a look through the telescope on a clear night for a penny. Date: 1856

Turnpike at Islington
North entrance into London, Islington, Black Young & Young Tavistock Street

Chicago Savings Bank building, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Chicago Savings Bank building, State and Madison Streets, Chicago, Illinois, USA, with Buck & Rayner, Druggists, on the ground floor. Date: circa 1910

Czech Slovak Protective Society, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Czech Slovak Protective Society (CSPS) Hall, on 18th and May Streets, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Date: circa 1900s

The Police Dog Handler. People You See, from Teddy Bear magazine, 1966. Date: 1966

Crossing-sweeper nuisance Crossing-sweeper nuisance 1856
Group of young children with brooms, sweeping the ground as a gentleman walks alone, asking for a ha penny. Date: 1856

Piccadilly roadworks 1927 Roadworks in Piccadilly, London 1927
Labourers making a trail in the pavement, for some kind of maintenance, watched by a crowd of people. 1927

Bank buildings, Royal Exchange & Cornhill 1805
Looking eastward from Poultry, with the Royal Exchange on the left, and Lombard Street forking off to the right. Date: 1805

Protective wear 1886
Humorous illustration for gentlemens protective clothing from the onslaught of mud from the busy traffic. 1886

Boys crossing-sweepers, London boys asking an affluent gentlemen for a penny for keeping the streets tidy. Date: circa 1850s

Bank of Spain, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain
Bank of Spain (Banco de Espana), in the city of Cartagena, Murcia, Spain, with streets on either side. Date: circa 1908

St. Jamess Street, Coronation of King Edward VII 1902
St. Jamess Street, decorated for the Coronation of King Edward VII. Date: 1902

Crowd of people on a street corner, Birmingham
Crowd of people on a street corner, near Sutton Park, Birmingham, outside a building where cycles can be stored for the bargain price of two pennies (2d). circa 1910s

Holles Street and Oxford Street, London. circa 1900s

If London were Venice, Piccadilly Circus. A view of London if its streets were canals, with bridges and gondolas. Date: circa 1900s

The Hippodrome building, London
The Hippodrome building on the corner of Charing Cross Road and Leicester Square in the City of Westminster, London. Date: 1900s

Duke of Yorks Theatre, St Martins Lane, London, with a production of Ernest Dennys light comedy, All-of-a-Sudden Peggy, starring Marie Tempest. Date: circa 1908

Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, where Royal Academy exhibitions take place. Date: circa 1900s

Oxford Street and Oxford Circus, London. Date: circa 1900s

Garrick Theatre, Charing Cross Road, London, with a production of The Woman in the Case by Clyde Fitch. Date: circa 1909

View of the traffic at Piccadilly Circus, London. Date: circa 1905

Children playing on London streets 1900s
Edwardian children playing on the empty streets with nothing more than some chalk, rope and wheel and hoop. 1900s

Bethnal Green - slum houses
Slum houses in Crosland Street, Bethnal Green, London. Date: circa 1914

Selling mistletoe in streets 1854
Street trader selling mistletoe to passers by in the streets. Date: 1854

Gas Stokers strike 1872
Political disturbance in the industrial south-eastern districts of Victorian London involving Trade Unionists, striking to assert their rights

Hackney awaiting for Prince Princess of Wales 1896 Hackney awaiting for Prince
Hackney awaiting for the arrival of Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark), to open a Bazaar in the aid of the Hackney

Guy Fawkess Day
Please remember the fifth of November, Gunpowder treason and plot, I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot, with verse. 1867

Severe low-lying fog crisis over the capital of London, which afflicted London between the 1870s and the mid-1890s. Date: 1882

The Great Plague of London
Two men holding handkerchiefs over their noses in an attempt to avoid catching the plague as they hurry through the London Streets

Section of the road closed off to do some kind of maintenance work. Date: 1927

Street Trade seller - toys
William Liston from Glasgow, served under the Duke of York in Holland, where on the 6th of October 1799, he lost his right arm and left leg and his place in the army

A Spring Shower in London 1866
A scene in Bank, London, where victorian people are trying to get out of the rain. Date: April 1866

DRIVING THROUGH TORINO
Mussolini drives for three kilometres through the streets of Torino, fervently applauded all the way Date: November 1932

WOMAN / EMBANKMENT / LANTERN
A woman walking along the Embankment on a rainy night with a full moon 1910

Tragedy in the shadow of Big Ben: The breached wall in Grosvenor Road, sandbagged after the sudden floods devastated Westminster and Rotherhithe and caused fourteen deaths. January 1928

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