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  • London through a lens - Part 3

  • By Time Out editors

    Posted: Thu Oct 2 2008

  • Time Out Guides has just published 'London Through a Lens' - 100 years of remarkable and often downright bonkers Big Smoke images. See the first installment in the series of fascinating images of London life.

    London through a lens - Part 3

    The Jimi Hendrix Experience at London Airport, 1967 © Getty Images Gallery

  • Part 1

    Part 2

    Photos taken from Time Out's 'London Through a Lens' (Ebury, £12.99 or buy it from the Time Out shop for the special price of £9.99), courtesy Getty Images. 'London Through a Lens'     will run at Getty Images Gallery, 46 Eastcastle St, W1 from October 29 to November 22. Adm free.

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    • Children walk and play outside the Chinese Freemason Society in Limehouse in London's Docklands, 1927 Workmen putting up decorations at the Royal Exchange to celebrate the Coronation of King George V, 1911 Men rescuing residents in Rotherhithe, south London, from a flood caused by the Thames breaking its banks, 1928 Young children with their sacks, scrounging in the coal yard for odd pieces of coal which fall from vans at King's Cross, London during the General Strike, 1926 A crowd of demonstrators fleeing as police break down a barricade in Cable Street, Aldgate, east London. The protest is against the proposed march of Fascists through London, 1936 Italians taking part in the procession of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Little Italy, London, 1928 The south front of Broadcasting House, headquarters of the British Broadcasting Corporation, at Langham Place, London, circa 1932 Revellers cram into London's Piccadilly Circus to count in the New Year, 1955 One of two London Routemaster double decker buses being loaded onto the Edelgarde at Millwall Docks, to be transported to Oslo to carry visitors to and from the trade fair as part of 'British Fortnight', 1966 Oxford Street, London in the blackout, WWII. Wiggly lines show the passage of pedestrians holding torches, 1939 A fireman jumping from a window into a safety blanket at Southwark Bridge Road in London, 1922 Workmen move the statue of Eros from its plinth in Piccadilly Circus, London, 1925 A children's tea party in an East End London street, celebrating the end of the First World War, circa 1918

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