Londoner Collection

The Pearly King and Queen of Thornton Heath
Larry Barnes (1926-2011) - Pearly King of Thornton Heath and one of Variety Theatres last specialist acts

Busking on Brick Lane in London

Covent Garden Market, 1811, (1920). Artist: J Bluck
Covent Garden Market, 1811, 1920. From Londoners Then and Now As Pictured By Their Contemporaries, edited by Geoffrey Holme. [The Studio Ltd. London, 1920]

Pearly King, Pearly Queen and daughter, North London
Pearly King, Pearly Queen and daughter, riding in a cart drawn by a mule, North London. Date: 1922

The Elephant and Castle on the Brighton Road, 1826, (1920)
The Elephant and Castle on the Brighton Road, 1826, 1920. From Londoners Then and Now As Pictured By Their Contemporaries, edited by Geoffrey Holme. [The Studio Ltd. London, 1920]

Honi. Soi. Qui. Mal. Y. Pense: The Caricature Shop of G. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess Street, London, August 12, 1821

Sunday Morning in the New Cut, Lambeth, 1872. Artist: Smith
Sunday Morning in the New Cut, Lambeth, 1872. An engraving from the Illustrated London News, (27 January 1872). Hand-coloured later

Effects of the gas strike in London, 1872. Creator: Unknown
Effects of the gas strike in London, 1872

Smart Londoner taking his Labrador out for a brisk walk
A smart Londoner taking his Labrador out for a brisk and efficient walk in Central London. Date: 1932

WW2 poster, Lend a Hand on the Land, the Londoners Land Club. Date: circa 1940

"Chill October" - Rotten-Row, 1871. Creator: Unknown
"Chill October" - Rotten-Row, 1871....the desolate view near Hyde Park-corner [in London]

The Statute Holiday: Margate Jetty, 1871. Creator: Unknown
The Statute Holiday: Margate Jetty, 1871

Monday afternoon at the Zoological Society's Gardens, 1871. Creator: Unknown
Monday afternoon at the Zoological Society's Gardens, [London], 1871

The Statute Holiday: the Zoological Society's Gardens, Regent's Park, 1871

The Thames Subway at Tower-Hill: entrance to tunnel, 1870. Creator: Unknown
The Thames Subway at Tower-Hill: entrance to tunnel, 1870. Tunnel under the River Thames in London, designed by William Henry Barlow

The Thames Subway at Tower-Hill: waiting-room, 1870. Creator: Unknown
The Thames Subway at Tower-Hill: waiting-room, 1870. Tunnel under the River Thames in London, designed by William Henry Barlow

The Thames Subway at Tower-Hill: omnibus carriage, 1870. Creator: Unknown
The Thames Subway at Tower-Hill: omnibus carriage, 1870. Tunnel under the River Thames in London, designed by William Henry Barlow

Opening of Columbia Fish Market Bethnal-Green, 1870. Creator: Unknown
Opening of Columbia Fish Market Bethnal-Green, [London], 1870

Halfpenny dinners for poor children in East London, 1870. Creator: Unknown
Halfpenny dinners for poor children in East London, 1870. The district church of St. John the Evangelist, in the poor and populous parish of St

The Thames Subway at Tower-Hill: interior of carriage, 1870. Creator: Unknown
The Thames Subway at Tower-Hill: interior of carriage, 1870. Tunnel under the River Thames in London, designed by William Henry Barlow

Bound for a Beano, 1900, (1933). Creator: Unknown
Bound for a " Beano", 1900, (1933). Londoners riding in a horse-brake for the annual works day out - a beano, short for bean-feast, was a colloquial term for an excursion or celebration

The People's Market, Whitechapel, 1868. Creator: Unknown
The People's Market, Whitechapel, [east London] 1868....the establishment, at 272, Whitechapel-road, opened...for the sale by retail, at moderate prices, of good meat, vegetables

The Distress in East London: the labour-yard of the Bethnal Green Employment Association
The Distress in East London: the labour-yard of the Bethnal Green Employment and Relief Association, 1868. Bethnal-green...has this winter been the scene of much exceptional suffering among the poor

The Distress in East London: sewing-class in Berner-Street, Commercial-Road East, 1868. Lessons in sewing organised by the Central Executive Relief Committee at the Mansion House

A Sketch in the Streets of London, 1858. Creator: Unknown
A Sketch in the Streets of London, 1858. Engraving...from a Sketch of M

The Royal Visit to the City: Amusements of the Crowd - Scrambling for Pence

Muriel putting the Sealed Paper into Master Walter's Hand, 1857. Creator: Unknown
Muriel putting the Sealed Paper into Master Walter's Hand, 1857. Scene from "Master Walter, the Physician

Citizens of London walking in the Pleasant Pastures of Smethefelde, 1857. Creator: Unknown
Citizens of London walking in the Pleasant Pastures of Smethefelde, 1857. Scene from "Master Walter, the Physician

The Peace Illuminations - A Street Scene - drawn by George Thomas, 1856. Creator: Unknown
The Peace Illuminations - A Street Scene - drawn by George Thomas, 1856. Londoners celebrate the end of the Crimean War

Victory Tour of East End of London - 9th May, 1945, 1947. Creator: Unknown
Victory Tour of East End of London - 9th May, 1945, 1947. The future Queen Elizabeth II visits Londoners during the Second World War

The East End Greets The Princess - May, 1946, 1947. Creator: Unknown
The East End Greets The Princess - May, 1946, 1947. The future Queen Elizabeth II visits Londoners a year after the end of the Second World War

Billingsgate New Market, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Billingsgate New Market [in London], 1854

Picturesque Sketches of London - the Adelphi "Dry Arches", 1850

Picturesque Sketches of London - Street Sights, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Picturesque Sketches of London - Street Sights, 1850

Stag Hunt in the New-Road on Tuesday, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Stag Hunt in the New-Road on Tuesday, 1850....the inhabitants of Camden Town [in London] were astonished at the unusual sight of a fine stag, or red deer

The International Exhibition: entrance to the Horticultural Society's Gardens from the Exhibition Building, 1862

Doorway, Temple, frontispiece to Original Views of London as It Is, 1842

Hyde Park Near Crosvenor Gate, plate sixteen from Original Views of London as It Is, 1842

Regent Street Looking Towards the Duke of Yorks Column, plate twelve from Original Views of London as It Is, 1842

The Club Houses and Pall Mall, plate thirteen from Original Views of London as It Is, 1842

Regent Street Looking Towards the Quadrant, plate eighteen from Original Views of London as It Is, 1842

Entry to The Strand from Charing Cross, plate twenty from Original Views of London as It Is, 1842

Piccadilly, Looking Towards the City, plate seventeen from Original Views of London as It Is, 1842

The Bank Looking Towards the Mansion House, from Original Views of London as It Is, 1842

Mansion House, Cheapside, plate one from Original Views of London as It Is, 1842

St. Dunstans Fleet Street, plate 23 from Original Views of London as It Is, 1842

London, from Greenwich, plate five from Original Views of London as It Is, 1842

The Horseguards from St. Jamess Park, plate fourteen from Original Views of London as It Is, 1842

The Guildhall, plate 25 from Original Views of London as It Is, 1842

The Tower and Mint from Great Tower Hill, plate two from Original Views of London as It Is, 1842

St. Pauls from Ludgate Hill, plate 24 from Original Views of London as It Is, 1842

Temple Bar from The Strand, plate 22 from Original Views of London as It Is, 1842

The Strand, plate 21 from Original Views of London as It Is, 1842

Hyde Park Corner, plate fifteen from Original Views of London as It Is, 1842

Board of Trade, Whitehall, from Downing Street, plate eight from Original Views of London as It Is, 1842

St. James Palace, plate ten from Original Views of London as It Is, 1842

Mediaeval Court: The Great Exhibition of 1851, 1854. Creator: Joseph Nash
Mediaeval Court: The Great Exhibition of 1851, 1854

A Seat in St. Jamess Park, 1870. Creator: Joseph Swain
A Seat in St. Jamess Park, 1870

Pearly King - or Pearly Prince? Little boy in fancy dress
A little boy posing for his photograph in a Pearly King costume. Date: 1920s

Londoners travelling to work amid wartime delays 1939
Londoners photographed as they travel after experiencing delays due to air raid warnings. The Sphere describes " three hours suburban traffic" but reports that " by 9.30 and 10 a.am

Whitechapel, London, Circa 1947

Theatrical Pleasures, Plate 2: Contending for a Seat, ca. 1835. Creator: Theodore Lane
Theatrical Pleasures, Plate 2: Contending for a Seat, ca. 1835

Dandies in Rotten Row, January 21, 1819. Creator: William Heath
Dandies in Rotten Row, January 21, 1819

Well-a-day, Is this my Son Tom, ca. 1773. Creator: Probably after Samuel Hieronymus Grimm
Well-a-day, Is this my Son Tom, ca. 1773

Skating in the Regents Park, 1844. Creator: Unknown
Skating in the Regents Park, 1844. Ice skaters in London. From " Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol I

Four Scenes from Cries of London Series: Heres your Potatoes
Four Scenes from " Cries of London" Series: Heres your Potatoes...; Buy my Moss Roses...; Light your Honor; Pray Remember the Blind, August 1, 1801

Smart London Gent - Cabinet Photograph. Date: circa 1890

Willie Rose - cab driver
Willie Rose, a London taxi cab driver picture in 1965. Described in London Life magazine as the grand old man of the cab trade his son followed him into the business. Date: 1965

Scythian shield
The Battersea Shield. 350 -50 BC. Celtic art. Jewelry. UNITED KINGDOM. ENGLAND. London. The British Museum. Proc: UNITED KINGDOM. ENGLAND. GREATER LONDON. London

Albert Chevalier - English Comedian and Actor
Albert Onesime Britannicus Gwathveoyd Louis Chevalier (18611923) - English comedian and actor. Had a successful music hall career as a singer of coster songs of his own invention. Date: 1892

Beer Street, 1751, (1925). Creator: William Hogarth
Beer Street, 1751, (1925). Issued in 1751 by English artist William Hogarth. From " London in the Eighteenth Century", by Sir Walter Besant. [A. & C. Black, Ltd. London, 1925]

A Country Inn Yard, 1747, (1925). Creator: William Hogarth
A Country Inn Yard, 1747, (1925). Published soon after the 1747 election

Gambling at Whites Club, 1734, (1925). Creator: William Radclyffe
Gambling at Whites Club, 1734, (1925). Plate VI, the gaming house scene from Hogarths The Rakes Progress, engraved by W.Radclyffe

Sport in the Eighteenth Century, c1720-1764, (1925). Creator: William Hogarth
Sport in the Eighteenth Century, c1720-1764, (1925). Wagerning bets on a Pocklington cockfight. From " London in the Eighteenth Century", by Sir Walter Besant. [A. & C. Black, Ltd

St. Jamess Street, 18th century, (1925). Creator: Unknown
St. Jamess Street, 18th century, (1925). Engraving after Plate 4 of William Hogarths A Rakes Progress of 1735, Arrested for Debt

The dwellings of the poor in London, 1875. A Workmans Home, Rose & Crown Court, Islington; Sunday Morning. Workmans Home, Leather Lane; Church Lane, Bloomsbury; Fogartys Barracks

Jane Scrimshaw (127)
JANE SCRIMSHAW A Londoner who never married, she became a resident of Merchant Taylors alms-house, about 1630, and stayed there some 80 years. Date: 1584 - 1711

Refugees in the London underground (1941). Watercolor by Henry Moore belonging to the series The Shelter Drawings. Watercolour. Private Collection

Street Vendor selling Nuts to Gentleman with a Simian Visage
Street Vendor cheekily offering the sale of some nuts to a diminutive Gentleman with a distinctive Simian visage!! Date: 1899

Cockney Argument between a fat man and a thin man
Fat Party (after a War of words) - " If you come our court to-morrer and bring a bit o fat with yer, I ll bloomin well eat yer." !! Date: 1895

Frost Fair on the Thames, 1825, (1925). Creator: James Stow
Frost Fair on the Thames, 1825, (1925). View of the Fair on the River Thames, During the Great Frost 1683-4 from an Original Drawing by Wyke, engraved by James Stow (c. 1770-1820)

Interior of a Weavers Workshop, 1747, (1925). Creator: William Hogarth
Interior of a Weavers Workshop, 1747, (1925). Plate 8 of 12 plot-linked engravings created by William Hogarth in 1747 for series Industry and Idleness. Plate 1 The Fellow Prentices at their Looms

Piazza in Covent Garden, 18th century, (1925). Creator: Unknown
Piazza in Covent Garden, 18th century, (1925). View of St Pauls Church, Covent Garden, Westminster, London, designed by Inigo Jones and completed in 1633

Hackney-Coach, 1787, (1925). Creator: Unknown
Hackney-Coach, 1787, (1925). From " London in the Eighteenth Century", by Sir Walter Besant. [A. & C. Black, Ltd. London, 1925]

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"The Londoner: A Tapestry of History, Culture, and Resilience" Step into the vibrant world of a true Londoner. From the Pearly King and Queen of Thornton Heath to the depths of the sewers in the City of London, this city dweller embodies a spirit that is as diverse as it is captivating. In "Sewer Depths in the City of London, 1944, " we catch a glimpse into the hidden underworld beneath our feet. The resilience and determination required to navigate these murky waters mirror that of every true Londoner. As dawn breaks over Barking Reach in "Barking Reach, Early Morning, " we witness a new day dawning for our protagonist. With each sunrise comes endless possibilities for adventure and discovery. "A New Kind of Derby" showcases an individual unafraid to break free from tradition. This colorful lithograph captures their rebellious spirit as they forge their own path through life's racecourse. Limehouse Dock stands tall as a testament to centuries-old maritime heritage. Our Londoner finds solace amidst its bustling docks, where tales are woven with every ebb and flow of the tide. At G. Humphrey's Caricature Shop on St. James Street, wit meets artistry in "Honi Soi Qui Mal Y Pense. " Here lies evidence that humor has always been an integral part of being a true Londoner - quick-wittedness runs deep within their veins. St. Clement Danes Church on Strand tells stories etched in stone since 1817. Its grandeur serves as a reminder that history intertwines seamlessly with everyday life for our resilient protagonist. In John Atkinson Grimshaw's masterpiece "Alone in London, " cobbled streets become pathways leading towards dreams yet to be realized. This oil painting encapsulates both solitude and strength; qualities inherent within every true Londoner's soul.