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Women enjoying lunch in the ornamental garden at St Paul's, 1954
1955: Check mate

A young girl from Brighton plays a game of chess with Fifi the chimpanzee at London Zoo
1937:

Lion cubs pose for artist Eileen Watson
1937:

Four baby Caiman crocodiles are given a session under a sun-lamp at London Zoo
1958:

Heini Demmer, the Austrian owner of Chi-Chi the giant panda bear, struggles to lift her back to her enclosure at London Zoo after she escaped
1935: Percy the Penguin

Two women play with Percy the penguin at London Zoo
1934:

A regular visitor to London zoo, Captain Pfeiffer, places his hand into the mouth of Joan the Hippo
1959: Fooling around

Chi-Chi the giant panda attempts to remove a rubber bucket from her head at London Zoo
1933: Taking the biscuit

Captain Pfeiffer (pictured) visited London Zoo for years and trained a giraffe to take a biscuit from his hips
1936: Capping it off with some Chameleons

A keeper at London Zoo with two chameleons decorating his hat
Windmill inn lambeth high st 1860
Embankment Kingsway tramway subway 1920's.
Southern end of the Kingsway tramway subway when initialy constructed for single deck tram use only.
On the 29th January 1510, a royal warrant was issued, in which "John Dawtrey by our like commandment hath delivered and paid unto the said Robert Brigandine, Clerk of our said Ships, for timber, ironwork, and workmanship of two new ships to be made for us £700, and the one ship to be of the burthen of 400 tons and the other ship to be of the burthen of 300 tons"

Later, the smaller ship would be named Peter Pomegranate, while her big sister would be called Mary Rose...
Clerkenwell Road c1924
Caledonian animal market berfore it deteriated to become a junk market. North of Kings Cross, market started up 1855.
Covent Garden Flower hall 1920s.
Slum housing in Tooting Grove , London, 21st May 1935. ‘ Houses with no roofs and no walls!’ London’s strangest ‘ open - air’ colony is soon to disappear. For four months scores of people in Tooting Grove, Wandsworth, have been living in houses without roofs and with parts of the walls missing , while Wandsworth Council and the owners negotiated the price of the property. In January, parts of the houses were condemned by the district surveyor, but since their demolition the tenants have refused alternative accommodations .
ALBION STREET, Bermondsey ran parallel to the edge of Albion Dock which opened in 1860.