Old London Buses

I recently picked up an old photo album containing 28 photos taken by the same photographer during the late Victorian or early Edwardian period. The photographs are on very thin glossy paper, some have faded, but all take you on a voyage of discovery, as you delve deeper into the images and learn of the life style of people living one hundred years before us. How we used to live! Here are some photographs of buses in London around the early 1900s.

Shanklin Fire Station in 1906

Shanklin Fire Station with Horse Drawn Vehicle

Here are a couple of postcards posted in 1906 and 1907. They are of Shanklin’s Fire Station and the horse drawn fire vehicle, the building today is Shanklin’s Library.

Old Postcard Hope Road Shanklin

A late Victorian or early Edwardian postcard of Hope Road, Shanklin, Isle of Wight.

Shanklin 1881

Old 1881 Postcard of Shanklin Deep in Snow

The photo for this Victorian postcard of Shanklin, Isle of Wight, was taken between 18th – 21st January 1881 when heavy snowfall covered much of the country, probably about 4 foot high on the Island and up to 10 foot recorded in Evesham. It shows the junction of the High Street and Victoria Avenue.

Martin Harvey Victorian Actor

I recently discovered an old postcard posted on 30th January 1904 at 8:30pm. There was something a little different about the man on this card that appealed to me, he didn’t seem as “straight laced” as most portrait real photo postcards spanning the Victorian/Edwardian era, the image seemed to have more life. At the time I purchased the postcard I had no idea who he was, what he did, that he had connections with the Isle of Wight or even that he was knighted in 1921.