Vintage photos show what London looked like 100 years ago
Source: Business Insider ·
A century ago, London was a bustling city, filled with culture and beautiful architecture. Take a look at what life was like in London in the 1920s.
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Flappers at the bar of a nightclub in London, circa 1925.General Photographic Agency/Getty ImagesA century ago, London was a bustling city, filled with culture and beautiful architecture.Poverty, however, remained an issue, with slum dwellings in parts of the city.Take a look at what life was like in London in the 1920s.Today, London is a bustling, metropolitan city, and the same could be said about the city 100 years ago. Like today, London was known for its attractions such as Piccadilly Circus, Buckingham Palace, and the River Thames.But many photos show parts of the city that are unrecognizable now.From the glamorous fashion all the way to the slum dwellings, take a look at these photos from 1920s London to see how much life has changed.An aerial shot of Trafalgar Square in London shows that parts of the city are still structurally the same 100 years later.DE AGOSTINI PICTURE LIBRARY/Getty ImagesIn the early 1800s, the square was meant to be a cultural center of the city, and it…
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