In May, Oscar Wilde was released from Reading Gaol. In June, Queen Victoria celebrated her Diamond Jubilee. In July, the Tate Gallery opened. In August, London got its first horseless taxicabs, and taxi driver, George Smith became the first Londoner charged with drunk driving that September. W. Somerset Maugham discovered that he was destined to be a writer, not a doctor, that year, when he published Liza of Lambeth.
This is the year in pictures.
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Outside the Bank of England 1897
Horseless carriages would be a good thing
because people were really starting to worry
about horse poop. You can see why! |
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| Regent Street and Waterloo Place, London, 1897 |
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Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Parade moving
down Whitehall in the City of Westminster London, 1897 |
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| Diamond Jubilee procession, London, England, 1897 |
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| New Palace Yard, Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament) 1897 |
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| Leadenhall Market 1897 |
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| Newgate Prison and the Viaduct Tavern 1897 |
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Exhibition at Earl's Court
Illustrated London News 1897 |
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| Coventry Street, Piccadilly 1897 |
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| London City Council 1897 |
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| Tower Bridge Hotel, Bermondsey, London 1897 |
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| Robert Koch in the London Illustrated News 1897 |
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| Oxford Street 1897 |
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| Fire on Oxford Street 1897 |
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The workshop of Charles H. Fox,
Theatrical, Historical & Private Wig Maker and Costumier,
25 Russell Street, Covent Garden, London 1897 |
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| Old woman on roller-skates 1897 |
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| Guy's Hospital 1897 |
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| Upper Richmond Rd. 1897 |
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| Colonial troops in London for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee 1897 |
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| The Jubilee celebrations 1897. The Scotch Stores Trades Wagon. |
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| London United Tramways horse tram 1897 |
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| Construction of the Central Telegraph Office 1897 |
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Images of London in 1889,
1890,
1891,
1892,
1893,
1894,
1895, and
1896.
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this other site has a cool collection that compares 19 pictures of 1897 London to the present day.
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