The Brixton Zebra (via Retronaut)

Calling Scotland Yard, 1939 (via Daily Herald Archive)

London, c. 1898 by Edgar Tarry Adams (via National Media Museum)

London Fog, 1938 (via Imgur)

“This is a photograph of my parents meeting for the first time … In 1940, as Paul Gamson, my father was a special policeman in Birmingham, out on the beat looking for unexploded bombs.” (via BBC)

Children in a Bomb Shelter, England c. 1941 (via Waiting: 1940 | Shorpy Historical Photo Archive)

London Fog, c. 1938 (via  Imgur)

“Children of an eastern suburb of London, who have been made homeless by the random bombs of the Nazi night raiders, waiting outside the wreckage of what was their home.” September 1940

The Tower Bridge under construction, London c. 1892.  Click for Source.

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Huntsmen and their hounds in Oxford Street, January 1926.

From Getty Images’ Hulton Archive.

(via Fox Hunting at Oxford Circus, 1926 | HOW TO BE A RETRONAUT)

Carte des Isles Britaniques, c. 1760.  Click for Source.