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RT from Tetramesh (@Tetramesh)

in 1886: Honor Oak Park station was opened by the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway. flickr.com/photos/tetramesh/23

[Top photo © Steve Grindlay - flickr.com/photos/stevegrindla]

Original tweet : twitter.com/Tetramesh/status/1

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1900: Traffic on the southern approach to Tower Bridge spanning the River Thames near the Tower of London. The bridge was completed in 1894, a monument to the Victorian Era.

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6 December 1897, the first motorised fleet of London cabs took to the streets from their Vauxhall garage.
Bersey taxis, named after its inventor, Walter Bersey & powered by battery, internal-combustion engine first came on the taxi scene in the early 1900s

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Workmen salvage masonry from the rubble of a blitzed church in London in 1950 in the shadow of St Paul's Cathedral. During the war, prime minister Winston Churchill had insisted St Paul's should be protected at all costs to help boost morale

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Chapel Street Market, Islington,1895.
Formerly known as Chapel Street, it was officially recognised as a market in 1879, the market is still going strong. The street was also used for filming street seller scenes in the TV sitcom Only Fools and Horse

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London taxi driver 'green huts,' still a few around London today. As a London taxi driver I frequently use them.

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Former World War 2 metal stretchers used as railings, can still be found around London. They replaced railings that were taken down during the war to be melted down to make armaments.

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