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Once upon a time in the East End.
Spectators at Boleyn Ground take a moment to view the eclipse of the sun during the match between West Ham United and Aston Villa on April 4, 1936

If you look at the man front row, third from the left, just behind him is legendary Hammers scout Reg Revins, the second in the Revins dynasty of distinguished ‘star finders’ for the Irons covering the era from the club’s founding to the mid-1960s. This one of the very few images of the great man.

The bloke with the pipe (front row, second left) is Charle Charles, who worked undercover & unofficially with Revins.
Dancers of the Sadler’s Wells Ballet in their dressing-room, London. Photo by Angus McBean, 1937
Launching and landing spot at Dunquin for the Great Blasket Island, County Kerry in 1924.
The Great Blizzard of 1881/This Is Local London

"Hundreds of miles of rail track were blocked by drifting snow, dozens of feet high in places. Even in central London, there were 3-foot drifts in places. Around 100 people are believed to have died as a result of the blizzard. The storm was accompanied by extreme cold."
Waterloo Station concourse
Glasgow Slum tenements, back courts, Cowcaddens, 1920, showing children in court and at barred windows of stair
Earl Spencer Roehampton 1960s.
Waterloo Station 1850s
Half the street demolished. Neighbours all gone. Yet this lady in Lower Broughton still kept the pavement clean in front of her house.
This pub was earlier called the Eight Bells; the change of name to Ten Bells seems to have occurred in 1791. The name relates to the number of bells in the tower of Christchurch, next door. This originally had eight bells, increasing to ten in 1787 and actually to 12 in 1801

This pub was first built in 1752 or 1753 and was extensively rebuilt in 1845 - it remains open
Whitechapel in the late 19th Century. A moment captured for all time making the people become paper ghosts for all to see…
Berwick Street Market, Soho.
Catford Arngask Road c1900
Fulham, Broadway c.1905
The Dick Whittington, 24 Cloth Fair, City of London, Greater London
Children of Ruston Close

This road was the renaming of Rillington Place. Even after renaming, this street, where notorious murders had taken place, proved too much to avoid subsequent demolition.
1886 Collecting reeds on the Norfolk Broads
Widegate Street London E1. 1912.