Bold view of the Quadrant 1915-1925 Size:medium Porters and dockers wheeling sack

Porters and dockers wheeling sack barrows in from the quayside halted briefly for John H Avery to take this photo

Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames is a must-read for anyone fascinated by London’s past

Interior view of a storage room at the Tilbury docks

Never cruel or spiteful

the area along the Thames was also a major shipbuilding site until the early twentieth century where many of the early warships were built

Bold view of the Quadrant 1915-1925 Size:medium Porters and dockers wheeling sackBold view of the Quadrant, Regent Street, with a red omnibus advertising Dewars. The Quadrant is the name of a section of the southern curve of Regent Street just north of Piccadilly Circus. This view shows it around 1920, just before the curved terrace was replaced by a similar but grander version. The rebuilt Regent Street was opened in 1927. The architect John Nash designed the original buildings seen here in the 1820s. The original colonnade was