A #WansteadFringe Production… Wanstead Goes To Hollywood Featuring Dr Greg Roberts at Wanstead Curtain on Monday 14 Sept 2026 @ 7-30pm Learn how 3 Wanstead locals inspired a movie that was to change the course of the Second World War

A police officer on duty at his fixed post in George Lane South Woodford c.1907 Above him is a sign for the railway station #Woodford #Redbridge #Essex

Hugo and Gatsby are fine to stay for a few days

No Room At The Inn? Only the very desperate would consider booking into the Maidenhead Inn, Dyott Street St Giles - known as a “liquor-shop and public-house of the vilest description, the haunt of beggars & desperate characters”. Drawn by George Scharf prior to demolition #London (1817)

A winters tale from a #London tavern 7th January 1822, a sailor describes his adventures to an enthralled audience

Its June 1833 and the sun has set on the Duke of #Wellington's public life. Here he is back in civilian clothes being led off to pasture leaving his sackful of military and political honours behind

Life in London A view in St Bartholemew's Close Smithfield #London (1850) looking towards Hall's Coffee House, where ale can be purchased by the pot-load. By John Wykeham Archer

A view of Staple Inn at Holborn on a bright sunny day in #London by John Wykeham Archer (1851)

A Camp Scene from the outskirts of #London 1784 - it was a popular pastime to visit army encampments and watch soldiers mincing about cutting each other’s hair and prettying themselves up

Looking across the wide open expanse of Bloomsbury Square, towards Bedford House, #London by Edward Dayes (1787)

Dancing was one of the key measurements of refined civility in Georgian England, therefore it was common for elite women to engage masters to improve their dancing skills - so as to preserve/enhance their social standing. Published in #London (1768)

'Entrance from Mile End or Whitechapel Turnpike' by Thomas Rowlandson (1798) #MileEnd #Whitechapel #EastLondon

OTD 1810 - Rowlandson's satire: Procession of the Cod Company from St Giles' to Billingsgate; with the River Thames behind #London

Your comprehensive guide to getting out of London by stagecoach in 1819 wp.me/p4jj2g-fn

George Scharf's simply beautiful study of three milk-carriers at work in #London (1818), with a draftsman helping himself to a jug of milk as two of the maids chatter, whilst a flower seller stands nearby ready for the day's business

A coal wagon en route to #London (1821) - seen in the distance in its polluted glory

A close up of John Nash's beautiful archway at #Highgate, near #London (1814) with a stagecoach wending its way northwards

6th November 1791 satire of the Duke of Clarence standing immersed to the waist in the contents of a large, cracked, chamber-pot. Mrs Jordan, scantily draped, reclines seductively, as he says "I shall be lost in the Jordan"; Thus began a 20 year relationship

A view of #Leytonstone murderess Elizabeth Jeffries & accomplice (man-servant) John Swan - on their way to the gallows at Newgate (1752) Her crime was to murder uncle and guardian, Joseph Jefferies, who had sexually abused her from youth. She took 15 mins to die on the rope

The loss of the Fairlop Oak in 1820 was a blow for Epping Forest, but its trunk was used to build the pulpit at St Pancras Church (1822)

The sad life and death of on the banks of the Thames at #Blackfriars #London wp.me/p4jj2g-nJ

An Account of Peggy Jones, the London Mudlark - Wicked William

The sad story of Peggy Jones, the London mudlark who worked the Thames at Blackfriars

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Lest they forget: Despite #Waterloo here are 6 Reasons why France should salute #Wellington wp.me/p4jj2g-bS

6 Reasons why France should salute the Iron Duke

The Duke of Wellington was a confirmed Francophile, who ensured France was treated with respect

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A beaux trap: A pretty girl saunters past a house at Cavendish Square, holding up a parasol, & raising her skirt, showering mud upon a leering footman but captivating her target -the rich old git at the window above. Notice the incredibly penis-like bollard #London May 8th 1818

Saw this bust at Chatsworth House yesterday and it is annoyingly familiar. I feel certain it is a famous politician from the Regency era. Can anybody identify him? Thanks in hope and anticipation

The magnificent pair of Tylney-Long chandeliers originally from #Wanstead House now the centrepiece of the marble hall at Chatsworth House

1803 Gillray satire of Talleyrand restraining #Napoleon from going after the English Bull across the channel behind the English Fleet

Walked through Chatsworth park to Bakewell yesterday. That was the icing on the cake

Next time you are strolling around Piccadilly #London remember Sir Thomas Clarges, who was responsible for persuading Charles II to return to England as monarch in 1660, and lived at this splendid mansion where Clarges Street now lies

A totally pissed up Charles II getting harassed by the dog as he departs from his good mate Sir Robert Vyner's house in Cornhill (1680)

Political satire from March 1800 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Sir Francis Burdett stand behind Charles James Fox, urging him to skittle out William Pitt's unpopular Government