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the last and most sordid victory of the age of science

London, 1920s Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. From the section entitled Some of the sights and sounds that liven London streets: The gramophone charioted in a perambulator seems the last and most sordid victory of the Age of Science. Even a barrel-organ, they say, needs some skill in the grinding. More at www.wonderfullondon.tumblr.com/

road sweeper

London, 1920s Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. From the section entitled Public servants of the London streets: The road-sweeper, fully fledged, with a push-cart bearing the cognizance of an ancient and once royal city. It is to be wondered how much the decline of the horse traffic has affected the demand for both the road-sweeper and the scavenger boy. London, 1920s Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. From the section entitled Public servants of the London streets: The road-sweeper, fully fledged, with a push-cart bearing the cognizance of an ancient and once royal city. It is to be wondered how much the decline of the horse traffic has affected the demand for both the road-sweeper and the scavenger boy.

London's safest milk

London, 1920s Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. From the section entitled Some of the sights and sounds that liven London streets: A north London milkman. The three-wheeled trolley of the milkman in a fairly small way is disappearing in favour of the motor van and the big combine. London, 1920s Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. From the section entitled Some of the sights and sounds that liven London streets: A north London milkman. The three-wheeled trolley of the milkman in a fairly small way is disappearing in favour of the motor van and the big combine

the flower seller is to be observed in her most prosperous state

London, 1920s Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. At Piccadilly Circus the flower seller is to be observed in her most prosperous state. At one time the flower sellers of London dealt for the lost-part in buttonholes, because the City clientele was almost exclusively male. Now cut flowers are on sale as a sign of feminine custom. More at www.wonderfullondon.tumblr.com/

guys in undiminished number

London children with a guy Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. Guys in undiminished number are still seen on the much-remembered Fifth of November, but the exuberance of inventive genius is gone and the motive is importunately mercenary. More at www.wonderfullondon.tumblr.com/

the weirdly-garbed Houdini of the pit queue

London, 1920s Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. From the section entitled Some of the sights and sounds that liven London streets: The weirdly-garbed Houdini of the pit queue. This fellow offers to free himself if sufficient inducement is forthcoming. One wonders what will happen if it is not.

a greengrocer in the Commercial Road

London, 1920s Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. From the section entitled Some of the sights and sounds that liven London streets: A greengrocer in the Commercial Road. In the East End and all over the poorer parts of London a strange kind of establishment, half shop and half booth, is common.

cut flowers are on sale as a sign of feminine custom

Piccadilly Circus, London Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. At Piccadilly Circus the flower seller is to be observed in her most prosperous state. At one time the flower sellers of London dealt for the lost-part in buttonholes, because the City clientele was almost exclusively male. Now cut flowers are on sale as a sign of feminine custom. More at www.wonderfullondon.tumblr.com/

the strains of the itinerant harpist come through the din of traffic

London, 1920s Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. From the section entitled Some of the sights and sounds that liven London streets: Accompanied by a violin, he is the most melodious of all the street musicians - the strains of the itinerant harpist come through the din of traffic like distant echoes of Tara or Carleon.

coloured favours and match programmes are on sale

Walham Green, London Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. Coloured favours and match programmes are for sale near Stamford Bridge, the ground of Chelsea Football Club. More at www.wonderfullondon.tumblr.com/. Walham Green, London Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. Coloured favours and match programmes are for sale near Stamford Bridge, the ground of Chelsea Football Club. More at www.wonderfullondon.tumblr.com/

these dogs will have to be disappointed

The Dogs Cemetery, Bayswater Road, London Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. Two great danes look in vain for a vacant plot in the dogs cemetery. It has been full for a number of years, and so these dogs will have to be disappointed. More at www.wonderfullondon.tumblr.com/

"a heat wave in the East End&#x22

Cotton Street, Poplar, London Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. It is doubtful if the Borough Council of Poplar had any notion, when they supplied the district with water carts, that the supplementary use pictured would be made of them. The boys are following the water cart down Cotton Street, and the building behind them is Cotton Street Baptist Chapel. It was destroyed in the 1940 German Blitz and was not rebuilt. Cotton Street, Poplar, London Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. It is doubtful if the Borough Council of Poplar had any notion, when they supplied the district with water carts, that the supplementary use pictured would be made of them. The boys are following the water cart down Cotton Street, and the building behind them is Cotton Street Baptist Chapel. It was destroyed in the 1940 German Blitz and was not rebuilt.

postman

London, 1920s Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. From the section entitled Public servants of the London streets: It would be interesting to know how many hundred miles a year the average London postman walks.

"forced gaiety in the highways&#x22

Lothbury, London Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. The German bands that disappeared with the Great War have been replaced by ex-soldiers and unemployed; and though statistics are urgently needed giving the percentages of genuine cases, it is only too certain that in the main the picture is a true one. Lothbury, London Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. The German bands that disappeared with the Great War have been replaced by ex-soldiers and unemployed; and though statistics are urgently needed giving the percentages of genuine cases, it is only too certain that in the main the picture is a true one.

nor would pharaoh have hardened his heart

London, 1920s Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. From the section entitled Some of the sights and sounds that liven London streets: Some street musicians make their appeal by the sweetness of the strains they produce: some, one would think, by blackmail. Nor would Pharaoh have hardened his heart against an ill-played concertina.

"a heat wave in the West End&#x22

Trafalgar Square, London Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. The ornamental water in Trafalgar Square is not officially a public bath, but children who paddle there are smiled on by the authorites. Not so nowadays, alas. Trafalgar Square, London Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. The ornamental water in Trafalgar Square is not officially a public bath, but children who paddle there are smiled on by the authorites. Not so nowadays, alas.

delightful river scenes hidden away in much that is sordid and unsightly

London, 1920s Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. There are still many delightful river scenes hidden away in much that is sordid and unsightly. Few but the local inhabitants ever see them. It is only the photographer equipped with audacity and a camera and given to exploring who is rewarded in the end. More at www.wonderfullondon.tumblr.com/

"natural gaiety in the highways&#x22

somewhere in Poplar, London Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. Children playing a skipping game in an East End street. somewhere in Poplar, London Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. Children playing a skipping game in an East End street.

her unimpeachable respectability somehow enhanced by her strictly Victorian clothing

the charwoman Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. The charwoman's stock-in-trade was her unimpeachable respectability which was somehow enhanced by her strictly Victorian clothing. But this kind is passing and becoming the charlady, with more modern habilments but with no loss of the respectable. More at www.wonderfullondon.tumblr.com/. the charwoman Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. The charwoman's stock-in-trade was her unimpeachable respectability which was somehow enhanced by her strictly Victorian clothing. But this kind is passing and becoming the charlady, with more modern habilments but with no loss of the respectable. More at www.wonderfullondon.tumblr.com/

some of the goods offered for an amazingly low price on a Sunday morning are not above suspicion of being stolen

Petticoat Lane, London Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. Middlesex Street is still known by its old name of Petticoat Lane. Some of the goods offered for an amazingly low price on a Sunday morning are not above suspicion of being stolen, and you may buy a watch at one end of the street and see it for sale again by the time you reach the other. More at www.wonderfullondon.tumblr.com/

a greater joy to children than all the expensively garnished shop-windows

London, 1920s Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. From the section entitled Some of the sights and sounds that liven London streets: Curb-side hawkers are to be found wherever shoppers congregate, but Holborn at Christmas is a favourite pitch of theirs. With their nodding-dolls and acrobatic toys - mechanisms that never appear to function so deftly after purchase - they are often a greater joy to children than all the expensively garnished shop-windows on the other side of the pavement.

the flower-girl

Victoria Station, London Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. More at www.wonderfullondon.tumblr.com/. Victoria Station, London Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. More at www.wonderfullondon.tumblr.com/

district messenger

London, 1920s Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. From the section entitled Public servants of the London streets: It is the boast of the District Messengers that they will go anywhere, to do anything. A telephone message will bring one to exercise a pekinese dog, to fetch a suit-case from Exeter, or deliver a presentation to a Prime Minister. It is recorded of one that he was sent for and told to deliver a letter. When he looked at the address he found it was in New York. But the letter - a propsal of marriage, so they say - was delivered.

the ecstasy of craving

the cat's meat man Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. Slinking with lithe bodies amid the thickets of iron palings, or seated regardant upon the hillsides of front door steps, or prowling the deep ravines of basements, from tree-tops, from behind dustbins and out of first floor windows, the London cats come trotting after the cat's meat man. The pleased anticipation of milk or fish is as nothing to the ecstasy of craving for apiece of this "not of the newest" horse flesh. Mucid, and of horrid hues, in dull reds and yellows, the meat is put up in little steaks upon a skewer. More at www.wonderfullondon.tumblr.com/

the quarrelsome pair had composed their differences

Putney, London Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. Punch and Judy still survive, as the show on the towing-path at Putney proves, but in such scarcity as might lead one to suppose that the quarrelsome pair had composed their differences and retired. More at www.wonderfullondon.tumblr.com/

this patriarch carries on the tradition without simian aid

London, 1920s Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. From the section entitled Some of the sights and sounds that liven London streets: At one time the Italian organ-grinder with his monkey in fez and jacket was a familiar sight; he is gone today, but this patriarch carries on the tradition without simian aid.

a son of Italy

ice cream seller Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. A son of Italy does a brisk trade in frozen something or other. More at www.wonderfullondon.tumblr.com/

some of these have special uniforms

the bootblack Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. For many years, men who follow the bootblack's calling have gathered themselves into trade societies, according to their districts, and some of these have special uniforms. In the City this is red. On their coats the members wear a large metal badgge with the name of their society and their own number on it. More at www.wonderfullondon.tumblr.com/

the conventional amused embarrassment

Caledonian Market, London Photogravure by Donald Macleish from Wonderful London by St John Adcock, 1927. Both buyers and sellers are showing the conventional amused embarrassment which is associated with mistletoe. More at www.wonderfullondon.tumblr.com/

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