Streets Collection

Evacuation as a National Service - Poster
It Might by You! Caring for Evacuees is a National Service circa 1942

Langham Place and Portland Place, c. 1805
A view of Langham Place and Portland Place in London, c.1805. Date: c.1805

Piccadilly from Coventry Street
Piccadilly, fashionable thoroughfare of Londons West End, the view showing it heading west from Coventry Street. Date: 1828

View of El Albayzin from the Alhambra, Granada, Spain
View of El Albayzin (Albaicin) from the Alhambra, Granada, Spain. The district retains the narrow, winding streets of its medieval Moorish past. Date: circa 1962

Coronation Procession 1937
King Edward VIII passes along decorated streets festooned with garlands and bunting in the state coach pulled by the Kings grey in full ceremonial livery

Too Many Cooks by Lawson Wood
A policeman on the beat around a smart London square appears to be blissfully unaware of the cooks emerging from each house to gaze adoringly at him. Date: 1922

Cartier advertisement, 1911
Advertisement for the jeweller s, Cartier, showing their premises on fashionable New Bond Street in 1911. Date: 1911

Scene in Paris, France, at end of WW1
A scene of jubilation on the streets of Paris on Armistice Day at the end of World War One. 11 November 1918

Man on N. London Street
A sharp dresser on a North Kensington Street Date: 1959

Southam St (Mayne) 1961
Two ladies have a chat on the kerb as a mother heads off with her young child across the street and a stern faced woman walks home with the shopping. Date: 1961

Penny for the Guy / 1956
Children in Addison Avenue, North Kensington, London push their guy through the streets in a pram. Date: 1956

Hampden Crescent / London
Two young women wrapped up against the cold walk happily along Hampden Crescent, London Date: 1958

Street Corner / 1956 / Mayne
A little girl turns to look back down the road on the corner of Southam Street, North Kensington, London as two older ladies stop to talk below a streetlamp. Date: 1956

Street Scene
A group of people getting into a car on Addison Place, North Kensington, London. Date: 1956

Piccadilly Circus / Girls
Two young women lean against the railings by Piccadilly Circus Date: 1965

Harrow Road / 1960
The Harrow Road, North London. A woman with a pram crossing the road. Date: 1960

Southam Street 1956
Children playing on Southam Street, North Kensington, London. Date: 1956

Waiting Outside Pub
Black and white Working Class men, hanging around on a street corner, waiting for the Princess Alexandra pub to open, North Kensington, London. Date: 1957

Mods / Brixton / 1963 / Mayne
Three mods prepare to head off on their Vespa scooters Brixton, London Date: 1963

Spivs & Molls
Working class spivs and their molls, Southam Street, North Kensington, London. Date: 1956

Men Standing Around
A group of men standing around chatting and smoking, Southam Street, North Kensington, London. Date: 1958

Doorstep Gossip
Two working class women having a gossip on a doorstep on Southam Street, North Kensington, London. Date: 1957

After the Wedding / Mayne
Family gathering after a wedding on Addison Road North Kensington, London Date: 1956

Admiring a Limo
Working class people gawking at a limousine and chauffeur on a rare visit to Southam Street, North Kensington, London. Date: 1956

Teds / Kensington / 1957
Six young lads, some in classic Teddy Boy attire of suits, long coats and quiffs, lounge out on the pavement in North Kensington, London Date: 1957

Wedding Celebrations

Hyde Park Council Estate
A group of children run along the walkway of a block of flats on the Hyde Park Council Estate, Sheffield. Date: 1966

Hyde Park Estate Shops
Women and children shopping at the local shop which forms part of the Hyde Park Estate, Sheffield. Date: 1966

London Street Scene / 1957
Children play beside Portland Road in North Kensington - London Date: 1957

Teddy Boys / London / 1956
A large group of Teddy Boys turn to watch the photographer as a young lad in the foreground pulls back on his catapult, ready to fire at a friend or foe Date: 1956

Piccadilly Circus / 1965
A woman waits on the corner and a man waits to cross the road at Piccadilly Circus. Date: 1965

Waiting for Opening Time
Working Class black and white men, waiting outside for the Princess Alexandra pub to open, North Kensington, London. Date: 1957

Plymouth Street 1930S
Girls pushing bundles on carts up one of the ancient narrow streets of Plymouth, Devon, England. Date: early 1930s

Working Class Women
Working class women staring down the street from a doorstep on Southam Street, North Kensington, London. Date: 1957

Southam Street 1958
Children playing on Southam Street, North Kensington, London. Date: 1958

Golborne Road / Bridge
Golborne Road, North Kensington - with a view toward the backs of the houses on Southam Street (now demolished) behind. An elderly lady wheels an empty buggy 1958

Wet West End St Scene
A young woman uses her magazine to keep off the rain as she dashes along a West End street in London. 1956

Snowy Kensington Scene
A family crosses Kensal Place, a road in Kensington, London, on a snowy day. There seems to be an abandoned pram in the gutter. Date: 1962

London Traffic 1930S
A busy traffic scene in central London showing horse-drawn vehicles competing with motor cars and buses. Date: early 1930s

Edinburgh Soc. Scene / 1958
Housewives sitting outside their tenements in Edinburgh in the late 1950s Date: 1958

Pedestrians-London-1954
London pedestrains walk past bombed out buildings and areas of new development Date: 1954

Man on Scooter / 1961
A young man on his scooter - North Kensington - London Date: 1961

Street Scene / Nottingham
St Annes - Nottingham. A Grandmother sits on her step in a pinny having a chat, whlie a young girl heads down the street biting her nails Date: 1969

Lamp Post Larks
Mischievous little girls hanging from a lamp post, St. Stephens Gardens, London. Date: 1957

Playing on Street / Mayne
A group of boys and young lads out on the street at Brindley Road, London. It seems likely that a football is just out of shot. Date: 1957

Southam St / 1957 (Mayne)
Women of two generations stop to talk on Southam Street, North Kensington Date: 1957

Dancing Roadmenders
A group of men, roadmenders, one of them playing a fiddle while the others dance and fool around in their lunch hour! Date: early 1930s

Birmingham Girls / 1964
Two fashionable girls are amongst the shoppers in a busy Birmingham street. Date: 1964

Playing out 1957
Black and white children playing on Southam Street, North Kensington, London. Date: 1957

Southam St / 1956 / Mayne
A group of housewives chat in the street as their children play amongst themselves on bikes and on the steps of the terraced houses Date: 1956

Street Scene / Mayne / 1972
A street scene in Skinningrove, on the North Yorkshire coast. Date: 1972

African Woman in London
A black African woman in traditional dress, walking down Southam Street, London, in front of a group of white working class women, one of them wearing a headscarf. 1956

St Stephens Gardens
Looking down on St Stephens Gardens in West London with its roadworks, cars and children playing Date: 1962

Empty Motorway 1960S
King of the Road: This lucky vehicle driver has the motorway to itself in the early days of motorways in Britain. Date: 1960s

Egyptian Water Seller
An Egyptian water seller sells water to a young woman and her child on the streets of Cairo. He cries oh may one refresh thy heart as he goes about his vital business. Date: 1930s

Middlesbrough Street 72
A row of terraced houses on a Middlesbrough road, at the end of which is a gasometer; a boy and girl play in the street next to a patch of waste ground Date: 1972

Demolition in Hampden Crescent
Demolition of slum housing in Hampden Crescent, Paddington, West London. Date: 1965

Playing Cards in Doorway
Two lads play cards in a doorway on Southam Street, London, whilst a standing girl looks on Date: 1958

Women Play Cards at Door
Three young women play cards on the doorstep on Southam Street, London. Date: 1956

Funeral Procession
A funeral procession in Ireland. Mourners walk through the streets behind the coffin. Date: 1960s

Sandwich Toll Bridge
The Toll Bridge at Sandwich Kent, England and the smart gentleman in a peaked cap who used to police it. Date: 1930s

London Rush Hour 1964
London Rush Hour. Date: 1964

Rush Hour, Waterloo 1965
Rush Hour at Waterloo Station. Date: 1965

Brindley Road / London
Children play in the rather run-down Brindley Road. The smart car and elegant gas street-lamp look rather out of place Date: 1957

London Bridge at rush hour
Rush hour traffic on London Bridge. Date: 1964

West Indian Man in London
London - West Indian man in Golborne Road, North Kensington, London. 1961

Bristol Street / Mayne
A lady pushes a pram up a steep hill that leads from Clifton to the Bristol docks Date: 1961

Sheffield Street / Mayne
Terraced street scene in Sheffield. Three boys play on a go-kart in the middle of the street while others look on over a wall. Date: 1961

Sheffield Street / 1961
Sheffield Street/1961

Whitechapel Street 1954
Two Jewish men crossing the road (note the cobbled street) near a bus stop at Whitechapel, east London. The No 25 bus approaches. Date: 1954

Two Boys Quarrel 1957
Two boys quarrel on the streets, two others stand watching, and another little boy asserts his authority with a pair of guns Date: 1957

Social / Teddy Boys 1956
A group of Teddy Boys hang- out outside a shop in North Kensington Date: 1956

YOUNG MODS
Three young mods with regulation attire, caps and scooters, on the streets of Brixton. Date: 1963

Games in London Streets
Teddy boys playing games in the street in North Kensington, London Date: 1956

Children in Street 1958
Children running through the rainy streets of The Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland Date: 1958

Football in Street
Playing football in Southam Street, North Kensington, London Date: 1956

Southam St / Mayne Series
Children playing in the street. Date: 1956

Cricket in London Street
Children playing cricket in Clarendon Crescent, London in 1957 1957

Playing in the Streets
Children and Teddy Boys playing and hanging out in the streets of North Kensington, London Date: 1956

Playing in the Streets
Children playing in the street, Gorbals, Glasgow Date: 1958

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