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priscilla 1Early 20th-Century London
August 31st 2009 02:19
The Getty Images Gallery has a new exhibition focussing on London and its inhabitants during the early 1900s. This information sourced from the Daily Telegraph. See more black and white pictures here.
English suffragette Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960) stands on a platform to paint the front of the Women's Social Defence League premises in Bow Road, East London.
A recruitment drive during the First World War at Trafalgar Square.
A huge crowd in Mare Street, Hackney, watch firemen putting out a blaze at the premises of Messrs Polikoff Ltd.
An example of the wire cage which East Poplar borough council in London proposed to fix to the outside of their tenement windows, so that babies could benefit from fresh air and sunshine.
Housewives with their prams ready to take away the week's coal supply at the Nine Elms depot of the Gas Light and Coke Company. People had to queue all day for their coal due to a fuel shortage.
The free exhibition Londoners Through a Lens will be running from August 15 until September 5 at the Getty Images Gallery (Mon-Fri 10am-6.30pm, Sat 12noon-6pm; 46 Eastcastle St, London, W1W 8DX; 020 72915380;
October 11, 1912
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January 27, 1934
February 18, 1947
The free exhibition Londoners Through a Lens will be running from August 15 until September 5 at the Getty Images Gallery (Mon-Fri 10am-6.30pm, Sat 12noon-6pm; 46 Eastcastle St, London, W1W 8DX; 020 72915380;
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