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1. The smoking gallery, Chalk Walk, Greenwich Hospital.
	Greenwich pensioners in the smoking gallery, Chalk Walk. The lives of the the pensioners were governed by many rules. Smoking was allowed only in...

2. The Union-Castle Line offices in Fenchurch Street.
	The South African Mail Service office of the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company in Fenchurch Street in the City. The company was formed in 1900...

3. The Yacht Tavern, Greenwich.
	The Yacht Tavern, one of the more famous public houses of Greenwich.

4. The Anson Ward with the figure-head of the old ship Centurion.
	The figurehead from the 60-gun 'Centurion' (1732) was presented to the Hospital in 1836. This was the ship on which Commodore Anson circumnavigated...

5. Chinese gamblers in an opium den.
	The Limehouse area in London was notorious for its opimum dens, many of which catered for Chinese sailors employed by the Blue Funnel Line as well as...

6. A group of divers at Westminster Bridge.
	A pair of divers at Westminster Bridge in December 1861. They had probably been inspecting Thomas Page's new bridge, which opened a few months later.

7. Admiring a statue.
	Two pensioners and a woman admiring Rysbrack's Statue of George II, in the grounds of the Royal Naval Hospital in this very early photograph. In the...

8. A formal group of men and girls at the Rosherville Gardens, Northfleet.
	Opened in 1842, the Rosherville Gardens were a favourite destination of thousands of Londoners during good weather.


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