38 Fantastic Photos Capture Street Scenes of London During the 1930s

   

Here is a fantastic photo collection that shows street scenes of London in the 1930s.

 
A milk bar in Bear Street, central London, 1936
A trader on a horse and trap outside Long Acre in Covent Garden, circa 1930

 

A water cart man turns the water main on a group of boys to help them cool off in a street in Westminster, London during a heatwave, August 1930

 

A woman and her two daughters rooftopping Hillcott House, Haggerston, London 1938

 

Atmospheric London scene in the early 1930s

 

Boy at the Buckingham Palace, 1930

 

Camden Town in the 1930s

 

Camden Town in the 1930s

 

Central London, ca. late 1930s

 

Child staring into bakery window, London, 1935

 

Children on London streets, 1939

 

Children sailing pond yachts, London, 1930

 

Couple eating ice-cream, 1934

 

Evacuees from the East End of London during the Second World War, 1939

 

Foyles, Charing Cross Road, London, 1936

 

Girl riding on tricycle, London, 1934

 

Homeless man, London, 1931

 

J.P. Restaurants Ltd., London, 1930

 

Little girl with her kitten walking on London streets, 1931

 

Lockyer Street, Bermondsey, London, 1935

 

Lockyer Street, Bermondsey, London, 1935

 

 
London friends, 1935

 

 
London streets in the middle of 1930s

 

London's Bond Street decorated for the wedding of the Duke of Kent and Princess Marina of Greece, 1934

 

London's Lido, 1930

 

Lunch hour in the roof garden at Adelaide House, 1937

 

Milkman on Charing Cross Road, 1935

 

Miniature Southdown Leyland coach, ca. 1930s

 

Nannies looking after their charges beside the Serpentine in Hyde Park in 1938

 

Piccadilly Circus in the early 1930s

 

Piccadilly Circus, 1937

 

Regent street London, 1933-34

 

Sandwich board men parading outside the London Palladium, 1937

 

Shoeshine in London, 1936

 

Street scene in London, 1933

 

Street scene in London, ca. 1930s

 

Traffic signals on Oxford St, London, 1935

 

 
Victoria Bus Termina, 1939