heres some historic photos please log in to view this image The earliest surviving camera photograph, 1826 or 1827, known as View from the Window at Le Gras please log in to view this image Boulevard du Temple", a daguerreotype made by Louis Daguerre in 1838, is generally accepted as the earliest photograph to include people. It is a view of a busy street, but because the exposure lasted for several minutes the moving traffic left no trace. Only the two men near the bottom left corner, one of them apparently having his boots polished by the other, remained in one place long enough to be visible.
BBC Television centre being late 1959/early 1960... please log in to view this image Completed 1960... please log in to view this image
The Westway under construction... please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image
I lived in Dalgarno Gardens! Peabody Buildings and "The Suttons" housing trust properties. No lifts in my block and my mate lived in a flat where the toilet was out on the converted balcony with the bath in the kitchen.
My Kilburn based Dad (2nd from left) clowning around with his mates as a 20 year old circa 1936. Dad was the only one of this group of five London lads to make it through WWII - they used to take trips over to Ostend to have a bit of fun on the continent. Dad (centre) with the 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) Regiment getting the tanks ready during WWII:- The 1st gen R, my Grandfather in Belgium WWI My Grandfather, circa 1921 with Dad on the back of his motorcycle (Fernhead Road) My Grandfather (in trench) circa 1938 with the Myers Rossage stockbrokers football team that he coached:- and his team in action:-
Some great pictures there Kilburn, nice to have such mementos... Love the motorbike complete with number plate on the front mudguard, they called that a 'bacon-slicer' as it was lethal if you hit a pedestrian...
Stacey has just renewed her season ticket, she had to think about it for a while, but in the end it just had to be done, well what else was she going to do every Saturday 12:30 to 5:30 apart from a few pints in the C & S before tottering off to Loftus Road
A fascinating look at the 1900s in this set of pictures... http://londonist.com/london/history/in-pictures-london-news-from-the-1900-s
please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image Did anyone of you forum members go to this? I was born in 1975 so couldn't really make it!
I'm an avid follower of history, particularly in London, but there are a couple of these I've never heard of before...
My Dad used to get one of the trains involved in the Harrow and Wealdstone crash every day.....for some reason he missed it on the day of the crash.
Some really old pictures here, many from the 1890s... http://londonist.com/london/history/london-in-the-19th-century
Cheers Sooper, I love this set of pictures Sorry but when looking at the picture below I couldn't help thinking about the ministry of silly walks when seeing the man on the right of the picture please log in to view this image