Now here is a new way of learning about our past which is free and offers up thousands of historic images of London.*
The resource has just been launched online and has a wealth of photographs, prints, drawings and posters from London's past.
Each image is available to view via an interactive map showing their locations.
This new exciting project has been created by London Metropolitan Archives in partnership with the Guildhall Art Library and contains 250,000 images.
So if you subscribe to Samuel Johnson’s famous observation that “when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford" I am guessing there will be much here to fascinate you and of course it is free.
Pretty much seems a good deal to me.
Picture; Billingsgate Fish Market, 1927, courtesy of MARK FLYNN POSTCARDS, http://www.markfynn.com/index.html
*Collage The London Picture Archive, bit.ly/PictureMap
Each image is available to view via an interactive map showing their locations.
This new exciting project has been created by London Metropolitan Archives in partnership with the Guildhall Art Library and contains 250,000 images.
So if you subscribe to Samuel Johnson’s famous observation that “when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford" I am guessing there will be much here to fascinate you and of course it is free.
Pretty much seems a good deal to me.
Picture; Billingsgate Fish Market, 1927, courtesy of MARK FLYNN POSTCARDS, http://www.markfynn.com/index.html
*Collage The London Picture Archive, bit.ly/PictureMap
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