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A bee Date: 1920
Interior view of the Dutch Kitchen Restaurant in Cardiff, with its heavy 17th century style panelling and furniture. Date: 1909
Suggested decor and layout for a high-class luncheon and dining room of the 1900s. With the painted green panelled walls and elegant furniture
Suggestion for decor and layout of a tea room and club room in the 1900s. Date: 1909
A light and airy restaurant dining-room with starched white tablecloths and numerous pot plants dotted around. Date: 1909
Example of an Edwardian restaurant interior notable for some art nouveau style ironwork surrounding a clock and the surfeit of pot plants scattered around. Date: 1909
Photograph of what is described as a high-class restaurant in Britain during the Edwardian era. The room is slightly baronial in style with wood panelling and studded dining chairs
Interior of what is described as a high class confectioners tea room with a counter offer tempting cakes and sweets in the foreground and tables and chair beyond. Date: 1909
Sir Isidore Salmon (1876-1941), co-founder of Salmon and Gluckstein Tobacconists which evolved into the J. Lyons catering empire. Salmon was manager and director of the J
A bakers shop in a country village. Date: 1909
Artists impression of the exterior of a city bakers shop with a smart yet tempting window display. Date: 1909
Cheery cover of London Opinion magazine, May 1932, featuring a group of gaily dressed and very pretty young women sitting on a sea wall. Date: 1932
A young woman called Beatie, in a fancy dress costume as the Newcastle Daily Journal newspaper. Date: 1908
Duke of Hereford leads prisoner King Richard II into LondonHenry Bolingbroke, the Duke of Hereford leading his prisoner (King Richard II) into London. Hereford was crowned King in 1399 as Henry IV. 1399
Wycliffe explains his thoughts before the ArchbishopJohn Wycliffe (circa 1320s 1384) -an English scholastic philosopher, theologian, biblical translator, reformer, priest, and a seminary professor at the University of Oxford
The First Prince of WalesKing Edward Is infant son Edward (later King Edward II), born at Caernarfon Castle, is presented to the Welsh Chieftains as their Prince
TELEVISION SOUND 1930Making a sound recording for television. Date: 1930
Whittingtons almshousesWhittingtons college (almshouse and hospital) next door to St Michael Paternoster Royal in the City of London. Date: 19th century
Weigh-house chapelIn 1697 the Presbyterian congregation built a meeting house over the Kings Weigh House in Little Eastcheap and from this home the church took its name. Date: 19th century
Waithmans shopRobert Waithman (1764-1833) was a master draper and British politician. He opened a drapers shop of his own by Ludgate Circus, from which he made a considerable fortune
Trial of the pixThe Trial of the Pyx has been in existence since 1282 and is responsible for ensuring the quality and accuracy of the UKs coinage. Date: 19th century
Last heraldic courtThe court was established some time prior to the late 14th century with jurisdiction over certain military matters, which came to include misuse of arms
Theodore Hook(1788-1841). He was an English man of letters and composer and briefly a civil servant in Mauritius. He is best known for his practical jokes, particularly the Berners Street hoax in 1810
The Times Printing House SquarePrinting House Square was a London court in the City of London, so called from the former office of the Kings Printer which occupied the site
The Swan with Two Necks was once a coaching in in the City of London. Until the arrival of the railways, it was one of the principal departure points for travel to the north of England
St Stephens WalbrookThe church of St Stephen Walbrook is in the City of London, part of the Church of Englands Diocese of London. The present domed building was erected to the designs of Sir Christopher Wren following
St Pauls rebuildingRebuilding work took place at St Pauls following the damage caused by the Great Fire of London in 1666. Date: 19th century
Scaffolding & observatory on St PaulsIt was when the cross of St Pauls was taken down in 1821 to be repaired and reguilt, that the noted surveyor, Thomas Hornor
St Pauls choirA new choir was added around the 14th century, much enlarged and built in the latest modern Gothic style. The new choir was double the size of the one it replaced which made the cathedral some 585
St Pauls chapter houseThe chapter house of 1332 is believed by some to be the earliest use of Perpendicular Gothic in England, from a view by Hollar. Date: 19th century
St PaulsIllustration of the streets and properties surrounding St Pauls Cathedral following the addition of the spire in the mid-14th century. Date: 19th century
St Dunstans clockThe clock at St Dunstan-in-the-West is one of the oldest in London. Installed just after the Great Fire of London in 1671, it was the first clock in London to have a minute hand
St Michael ad Bladum or St Michael-le-Querne. A parish church in the Farringdon within ward. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666 and not rebuilt
St Mary WoolnothAn Anglican church on the corner of Lombard Street and King William Street. It is one of the Queen Anne churches designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor in 1716. Date: 19th century
Seal of Bow churchThe ancient silver parish seal of St Mary-le-Bow depicts the tower of the church before the Great Fire of London in 1966. Date: 19th century
St Antholins churchSt Antholins was a church in Watling Street in the City of London. Of medieval origin, it was rebuilt to the designs of Sir Christopher Wren
Second Royal ExchangeDesigned by Edward Jarman and opened in 1669, it burned down in January 1838. It had been used by the Lloyds insurance market
Roasting the rumpsViolent demonstrations in Fleet Street aimed at the Rump parliament. Date: 19th century
Richard Lovelace in prison(1617-1657). An English Royalist and poet. This is an artists impression of Lovelace imagining his poem To Althea, from Prison which was written by him in 1642 to encourage the Clergy Act 1640 to be
Proclomation of Charles IIAn artists impression of Charles IIs Royalist supporters greeting him and to proclaim him as King. Date: 19th century
PavementA specimen of pavement found in Threadneedle Street in 1841. Date: 19th century
Popes houseOne of Alexander Popes houses, Plough Court, Lombard Street. Date: 19th century
Osbornes leapIn 1559, Sir William Hewet (Clothworker) was mayor, whose income is estimated at lb6, 000 per annum. Hewet lived on London Bridge, and one day a nurse playing with his little daughter Anne
Old South Sea House, headquarters of the South Sea Company, which burned down in 1826, on the corner of Bishopsgate Street and Threadneedle Street in the City of London Date: 19th century
Old St Pauls SchoolThe rebuilt school in Cheapside in the City of London, following the former buildings destruction in the Great Fire of London in 1666. Date: 19th century
Old Sergeants InnSeargents Inn, off Chancery Lane, in the early 1800s. Date: 19th century
Old PatchA rogue of genius who, in the 1780s carried out bank note forgeries on a grand scale, amassing himself a sum in excess of lb200, 000. Date: 19th century
Old Lud Gate, from a print published around 1750. Date: 19th century