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London’s history in 30 images

— May 2012

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Farringdon Street, c.1890. Photographer: Charles Wilson (G W Wilson & Co) Charles Wilson took candid photographs of traffic and people in London’s main streets using a camera hidden inside a covered wagon.

Stephen Kingsley visits Wandsworth to see Portrait of London: Historic Photographs of London & the Borough of Wandsworth 



Local museums and galleries are a mixed bag: many have a touch of provincial, quirky charm but others can be painfully parochial or mundane.  Nevertheless, they are worth visiting, if only once.  And I was therefore excited at the prospect of visiting the new exhibition of photographs of London at the Wandsworth Museum, an institution new to me. 



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