An interactive map of Lost London, England, created by the London Metropolitain Archives, contains more than 100,000 images and 130 short films that you can browse or search.
Using Google Maps, the photos and videos are mapped out across about 11,000 streets of London.
Called The London Picture Map, the site is free to access and it allows visitors to search by a particular street to see how it looked a couple of hundred years ago, and to print their own versions of the images.
The London Picture Map allows you to browse the collections geographically and discover images of a particular street or building. Many of the images are of buildings that no longer exist.
Laurence Ward, from the London Metropolitan Archives, told London Live: “It basically takes you back in terms of place – it could be the place you live, work in, places that you go to – you can see what they looked like 100 or 200 years ago.
“The photographs, in particular, are really important because at the end of the 19th century, they show you all these things like massive engineering projects – like the construction of Tower Bridge.”
You can start your search here. To maximize your search, read the brief information about Using the London Picture Map under the main map.
If you don’t find what you are looking for on the map, try the Advanced Search. The Search Tips are also useful.
