Nature & Environment
Learn how the growth of one of the world’s great cities has affected its environment – with the help of our related objects, stories and blogs.
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Death & Disasters
Death & Disasters
The Great Smog of 1952
12,000 people died when a toxic polluted fog descended on London
Trades & Workers
Trades & Workers
Hop-picking: Londoners’ working holiday
Going ‘hopping’ in Kent was once a rare summertime escape from city life
Nature & Environment
Nature & Environment
A thousand years of Billingsgate Market
The prize catch of London’s fish trade, home to a unique culture and generations of working history
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Photography
Photography
A boy flies a kite on the summit of Parliament Hill, Hampstead Heath (negative)
Grant, Henry
C. 1955
