Victoria bus station

Victoria bus stationVictoria Bus Station. In the years before many owned cars, bus stations played a significant role in transport throughout the capital. This is Victoria Bus Station, on the forecourt outside Victoria Railway Station, in 1939. With the outbreak of the Second World War, bus services were restricted or withdrawn altogether to save fuel. Ticket prices also rose. Within four months, 800 central buses stood redundant.

Busy street scene with a general view of the market

takes readers on an unforgettable journey along the Thames’ foreshore

Walcot in the South East and Millbank Row in the South West

Section 33 of the original Descriptive map of London Poverty

The coronation went ahead in Westminster Abbey on 2 June 1953

As late as 1840 Billingsgate consisted only of sheds

Hope Street in the South East and the Thames in the South West

Greenmoor Wharf rubbish depot

In their own words

to fill the factories

1858 shows the soldiers' return a year later

a placard-holding protester and a pram-pushing mother