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Sloane square in 1918

Mod couples in the pub before going off to the dance, circa 1967 in Fulham

The Victorian Asylums treated patients for conditions such as hysteria, mania, melancholy, wilfulness, and possession by evil spirits

Two workers in 1981 fish from a wharf on the River Thames just in front of the towers of the power station

Imperial Road. Fulham.

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It isn't that we've lost all hope, but that it's been taken from us.

Hammersmith station in 1933

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Dead Man's Hole is a historical alcove located under the north side of Tower Bridge, near the Tower of London, that served as a temporary mortuary during the Victorian era to hold bodies that washed ashore from the river Thames and now no longer in use.

Two pints of Gold Top #Wapping 1973

Walthamstow high street

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Mr Henry Blessley, with his class for poor boys, outside their classroom in Portsmouth. Circa 1880

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A Mobile coffee station for cold winter days, London in 1932

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A moment in time captured in a cafe in Rillington Place, #London (which no longer exists) during the 1940s