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In the 1970s, Aldgate-born Bob Mazzer started surreptitiously snapping his fellow train passengers, creating intimate pictures that are full of all sorts of London characters.
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Tony Whipple Frank Whipple Place, E14 Added: 16 Apr 2024 21:35 GMT	Frank Whipple Place, E14 Frank was my great-uncle, I’d often be ’babysat’ by Peggy while Nan and Dad went to the pub. Peggy was a marvel, so full of life. My Dad and Frank didn’t agree on most politics but everyone in the family is proud of him. A genuinely nice, knowledgable bloke. One of a kind. Reply
Theresa Penney Whites Row, E1 Added: 16 Apr 2024 18:08 GMT	1 Whites Row My 2 x great grandparents and his family lived here according to the 1841 census. They were Dutch Ashkenazi Jews born in Amsterdam at the beginning of the 19th century but all their children were born in Spitalfields. Reply
Wendy The Polygon Added: 22 Mar 2024 15:33 GMT	Polygon Buildings Following the demolition of the Polygon, and prior to the construction of Oakshott Court in 1974, 4 tenement type blocks of flats were built on the site at Clarendon Sq/Phoenix Rd called Polygon Buildings. These were primarily for people working for the Midland Railway and subsequently British Rail. My family lived for 5 years in Block C in the 1950s. It seems that very few photos exist of these buildings. Reply
Steve Charleville Circus, SE26 Added: 19 Mar 2024 08:42 GMT	Road construction and houses completed New Charleville Circus road layout shown on Stanford’s Library Map Of London And Its Suburbs 1879 with access via West Hill only. Plans showing street numbering were recorded in 1888 so we can concluded the houses in Charleville Circus were built by this date. Source: Charleville Circus, Sydenham, London Reply
Steve Charleville Circus, SE26 Added: 19 Mar 2024 08:04 GMT	Charleville Circus, Sydenham: One Place Study (OPS) One Place Study’s (OPS) are a recent innovation to research and record historical facts/events/people focused on a single place �’ building, street, town etc. I have created an open access OPS of Charleville Circus on WikiTree that has over a million members across the globe working on a single family tree for everyone to enjoy, for free, forever. Source: Charleville Circus, Sydenham, London Reply
Charles Hornsey Rise, N19 Added: 8 Mar 2024 20:45 GMT	My House I want to know who lived in my house in the 1860’s. Reply
NH Woodgrange Road, E7 Added: 7 Mar 2024 11:41 GMT	Telephone House Donald Hunter House, formerly Telephone House, was the BT Offices closed in 2000 Reply
Paul Cox Aldine Street, W12 Added: 5 Mar 2024 22:18 GMT	War damage reinstatement plans of No’s 11 & 13 Aldine Street Whilst clearing my elderly Mothers house of general detritus, I’ve come across original plans (one on acetate) of No’s 11 & 13 Aldine Street. Might they be of interest or should I just dispose of them? There are 4 copies seemingly from the one single acetate example. Seems a shame to just junk them as the level of detail is exquisite. No worries if of no interest, but thought I’d put it out there. Reply

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Toll booths at the Dartford Crossing (2011) Credit: Wiki Commons/Darren Meacher TUM image id: 1686923201 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Tunnel boring machine being used in the western Dartford-Purfleet tunnel (1936). This was a compressed air driven pilot tunnel - the main tunnelling work would not take place until 20 years later. Credit: Ministry of Transport/Highways England TUM image id: 1606782590 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Littlebrook Deepwater Pier lies in the shadow of the Dartford Crossing’s Queen Elizabeth Bridge. It provided a mooring point for the nearby decommissioned Littlebrook Power Station. Credit: Google TUM image id: 1606784149 Licence: CC BY 2.0	A matter of geometry TUM image id: 1713792388 Licence:	A map a day for the month of May Political map of the County of London (1930). That section of Woolwich north of the Thames, surrounded by Essex was quite an interesting anomaly. The borough had inherited these two exclaves from Kent when the borders of the new County of London had been drawn up in 1888. They continued to make no sense whatsoever until 1965 when the arrival of the Greater London Council abolished them, assigning them to Newham. TUM image id: 1713790993 Licence:
A map a day for the month of May This early map by Lea in 1690 shows the marshy banks of the River Thames. The north bank is solid marsh from Silvertown to Tilbury. Much of the south bank is too, but this has not been depicted so much by the cartographer. TUM image id: 1713790188 Licence:	A map a day for the month of May 1756 map of the proposed route of the New Road - in particular here both Euston Road and Pentonville Road. From the small cluster of buildings at Tottenham Court (today’s Warren Street station), two parallel dotted lines mark the future route of Euston Road to Battle Bridge (King’s Cross). Then the dotted lines continue as Pentonville Road - since they are traversing the land owned by Henry Penton - to the Angel, Islington. They had been an alternative route proposed - the other set of dotted lines TUM image id: 1713789132 Licence:	A map a day for the month of May I have a bit of a map collection in my possession. Throughout May, I will be publishing one old map every day. This one is an 1855 London overview best seen on a desktop computer rather than a phone - you’ll be able to zoom into your favourite area of London in reasonable detail. The original is in much better definition which I will publish sections of at some point in the future. Credit: J.H. Colton TUM image id: 1713788502 Licence:	Facebook TUM image id: 1713788023 Licence:	Children enjoy themselves at a Christmas Party, on 25 December 1940, in a London underground shelter Credit: AP TUM image id: 1709119850 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Fortune-telling bird (1940s) - once a common sight in London markets Credit: Walter Joseph Collection/British Library TUM image id: 1710789861 Licence:	Modern family, London (1936) Credit: Horacio Coppola TUM image id: 1710789999 Licence:	Officers of the Women Police Service, led by Inspector Mary Allen (a former suffragette) London, May 1916. Later in life, her politics tended towards the authoritarian side TUM image id: 1710790162 Licence:	Scene outside a London school (1950s) The Frederick Wilfred Facebook page showcases the work of this wonderful London photographer operational between 1955 and 1965. https://www.facebook.com/Frederick.Wilfred.Photography Credit: Frederick Wilfred TUM image id: 1710790328 Licence:	“Englishmen read the Sunday Dispatch" (1935) Erich Salomon was a German photographer born in Berlin. A pioneer of modern photographic journalism, he was one of the first to use small format cameras (Leica). In 1944 he was sent to Auschwitz, dying there along with his wife and his son Credit: Erich Salomon TUM image id: 1713273355 Licence:

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Toll booths at the Dartford Crossing (2011)
Credit: Wiki Commons/Darren Meacher
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Tunnel boring machine being used in the western Dartford-Purfleet tunnel (1936). This was a compressed air driven pilot tunnel - the main tunnelling work would not take place until 20 years later.
Credit: Ministry of Transport/Highways England
Licence: CC BY 2.0

A matter of geometry
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A map a day for the month of May Political map of the County of London (1930). That section of Woolwich north of the Thames, surrounded by Essex was quite an interesting anomaly. The borough had inherited these two exclaves from Kent when the borders of the new County of London had been drawn up in 1888. They continued to make no sense whatsoever until 1965 when the arrival of the Greater London Council abolished them, assigning them to Newham.
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A map a day for the month of May This early map by Lea in 1690 shows the marshy banks of the River Thames. The north bank is solid marsh from Silvertown to Tilbury. Much of the south bank is too, but this has not been depicted so much by the cartographer.
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A map a day for the month of May 1756 map of the proposed route of the New Road - in particular here both Euston Road and Pentonville Road. From the small cluster of buildings at Tottenham Court (today’s Warren Street station), two parallel dotted lines mark the future route of Euston Road to Battle Bridge (King’s Cross). Then the dotted lines continue as Pentonville Road - since they are traversing the land owned by Henry Penton - to the Angel, Islington. They had been an alternative route proposed - the other set of dotted lines
Licence:

A map a day for the month of May I have a bit of a map collection in my possession. Throughout May, I will be publishing one old map every day. This one is an 1855 London overview best seen on a desktop computer rather than a phone - you’ll be able to zoom into your favourite area of London in reasonable detail. The original is in much better definition which I will publish sections of at some point in the future.
Credit: J.H. Colton
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Children enjoy themselves at a Christmas Party, on 25 December 1940, in a London underground shelter
Credit: AP
Licence: CC BY 2.0

Fortune-telling bird (1940s) - once a common sight in London markets
Credit: Walter Joseph Collection/British Library
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Modern family, London (1936)
Credit: Horacio Coppola
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