Here is a fantastic photo collection that shows street scenes of London in the 1930s.
A milk bar in Bear Street, central London, 1936 |
A trader on a horse and trap outside Long Acre in Covent Garden, circa 1930 |
A water cart man turns the water main on a group of boys to help them cool off in a street in Westminster, London during a heatwave, August 1930 |
A woman and her two daughters rooftopping Hillcott House, Haggerston, London 1938 |
Atmospheric London scene in the early 1930s |
Boy at the Buckingham Palace, 1930 |
Camden Town in the 1930s |
Camden Town in the 1930s |
Central London, ca. late 1930s |
Child staring into bakery window, London, 1935 |
Children on London streets, 1939 |
Children sailing pond yachts, London, 1930 |
Couple eating ice-cream, 1934 |
Evacuees from the East End of London during the Second World War, 1939 |
Foyles, Charing Cross Road, London, 1936 |
Girl riding on tricycle, London, 1934 |
Homeless man, London, 1931 |
J.P. Restaurants Ltd., London, 1930 |
Little girl with her kitten walking on London streets, 1931 |
Lockyer Street, Bermondsey, London, 1935 |
Lockyer Street, Bermondsey, London, 1935 |
London friends, 1935 |
London streets in the middle of 1930s |
London's Bond Street decorated for the wedding of the Duke of Kent and Princess Marina of Greece, 1934 |
London's Lido, 1930 |
Lunch hour in the roof garden at Adelaide House, 1937 |
Milkman on Charing Cross Road, 1935 |
Miniature Southdown Leyland coach, ca. 1930s |
Nannies looking after their charges beside the Serpentine in Hyde Park in 1938 |
Piccadilly Circus in the early 1930s |
Piccadilly Circus, 1937 |
Regent street London, 1933-34 |
Sandwich board men parading outside the London Palladium, 1937 |
Shoeshine in London, 1936 |
Street scene in London, 1933 |
Street scene in London, ca. 1930s |
Traffic signals on Oxford St, London, 1935 |
Victoria Bus Termina, 1939 |