After the closure of London's docklands in the late 1960s Limehouse went in to decline. But these vintage photographs show the fishing community in its bustling heyday. Just four miles from the ...

White - who won the Wolfson History Award in 2001 for his account of 20th-century London - has not structured ... were driven through the most notorious slums. Suburban trains allowed workers ...

In the UK capital, from the late 19th century to the middle of the 20th, the London County Council built ... to population flow from inner-city slums to semi-rural outer areas.

London would look very different had it not been for the widespread demolition of Georgian architecture in the 20th century. John Martin Robinson takes a look back at what was lost and what was ...