Exploring the Past: 35 Rare Vintage Photographs Immortalize Street Scenes of London from the 1920s and Early 1930s _ Ukhistorical

   

George Reid took over 700 photographs of London over the course of a decade, from 1920 to 1933. He died before his work was completed, though, with the portable, consumer cameras that became more than commonplace after his death, he would have been happy to know his work is still continuing to this day.

London Hippodrome, Cranbourn Street © George Davison Reid.

 

London Pavillion Theatre and Coventry Street from Piccadilly Circus © George Davison Reid.

 

Sunset over the Upper Pool from Tower Bridge © George Davison Reid.

 

The Thames towards Waterloo Bridge and St Paul’s Cathedral © George Davison Reid.

 

Trafalgar Square from the steps of St Martin’s-in-the-Fields © George Davison Reid.

 

Trafalgar Square looking south © George Davison Reid.

 

Visitors on the steps of the Tate Gallery © George Davison Reid.

 

Water trough near St Clement Danes church, Aldwych © George Davison Reid.

 

Whitehall from Parliament Square © George Davison Reid.

 

Whitehall © George Davison Reid.

 

Blackfriars Bridge and Bankside from the north bank of the Thames © George Davison Reid.

 

Children beneath Southwark Bridge © George Davison Reid.

 

Crowds outside ‘The Newspaper House’, Fleet Street © George Davison Reid.