From The Pages Of My Album

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At Trinity Green Almshouses, Whitechapel

Here are just a few of my all-time favourite photographs of the capital selected from over 600 in THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S LONDON ALBUM. It has been so immensely popular that we only have a few copies left now.

Funerary image of Charles II at Westminster Abbey (courtesy Bishopsgate Institute)

Crudgie, Motorcycle Courier, at the Ace Cafe

The Little Midshipman from the Signs of Old London (courtesy Bishopsgate Institute)

Franceskka Abimbola, Wax Seller of Wentworth St, by Jeremy Freedman

The Vine Tavern from the Pubs of Old London (courtesy Bishopsgate Institute)

Swan Upping on the Thames

Inside the Dome of St Pauls from the Forgotten Corners of Old London (courtesy Bishopsgate Institute)

Viscountess Boudica of Bethnal Green with one of her collection of vintage domestic appliances

Jam in Piccadilly from the Streets of Old London (courtesy Bishopsgate Institute)

Aaron Biber, London’s Oldest Barber

Car Crash in Clerkenwell by Colin O’Brien

Henrietta Keeper sings at E. Pellicci

Graffiti at the Tower of London

‘Clockwell’ from Bob Mazzer’s Tube Photography

Barn the Spoon, Spoonmaker

Billingsgate from the Markets of Old London (courtesy Bishopsgate Institute)

Mick Taylor, the Sartorialist of Brick Lane

Old House in Lambeth from the Ghosts of Old London (courtesy Bishopsgate Institute)

Gina of Gina’s Restaurant in Bethnal Green Rd

From Libby Hall’s collection of the Dogs of Old London (courtesy Bishopsgate Institute)

Clive Murphy, Oral Historian in his Brick Lane kitchen

The Trade Cards of Old London

Gary Arber, Printer, in the living room of his grandparent’s home in the Roman Rd

Trafalgar Sq from the Nights of Old London (courtesy Bishopsgate Institute)