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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Lifestyle & Leisure
Lifestyle & Leisure
Frost fairs: Festivities on a frozen River Thames
Trading, feasting and entertainment on ice
Nature & Environment
Nature & Environment
Lost rivers: The Westbourne
Until the 1800s, the Westbourne flowed through the countryside and could safely quench your thirst
Death & Disasters
Death & Disasters
The Great Smog of 1952
12,000 people died when a toxic polluted fog descended on London
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Photography
Photography
A man addresses the crowd at Speakers' Corner, Hyde Park (negative)
Grant, Henry
1964-02