Here is a fantastic photo collection that shows street scenes of London in the 1930s.

A milk bar in Bear Street, central London, 1936

A trader on a horse and trap outside Long Acre in Covent Garden, circa 1930

A water cart man turns the water main on a group of boys to help them cool off in a street in Westminster, London during a heatwave, August 1930

A woman and her two daughters rooftopping Hillcott House, Haggerston, London 1938

Atmospheric London scene in the early 1930s

Boy at the Buckingham Palace, 1930

Camden Town in the 1930s

Camden Town in the 1930s

Central London, ca. late 1930s

Child staring into bakery window, London, 1935

Children on London streets, 1939

Children sailing pond yachts, London, 1930

Couple eating ice-cream, 1934

Evacuees from the East End of London during the Second World War, 1939

Foyles, Charing Cross Road, London, 1936

Girl riding on tricycle, London, 1934

Homeless man, London, 1931

J.P. Restaurants Ltd., London, 1930

Little girl with her kitten walking on London streets, 1931

Lockyer Street, Bermondsey, London, 1935

Lockyer Street, Bermondsey, London, 1935

London friends, 1935

London streets in the middle of 1930s

London’s Bond Street decorated for the wedding of the Duke of Kent and Princess Marina of Greece, 1934

London’s Lido, 1930

Lunch hour in the roof garden at Adelaide House, 1937

Milkman on Charing Cross Road, 1935

Miniature Southdown Leyland coach, ca. 1930s

Nannies looking after their charges beside the Serpentine in Hyde Park in 1938

Piccadilly Circus in the early 1930s

Piccadilly Circus, 1937

Regent street London, 1933-34

Sandwich board men parading outside the London Palladium, 1937

Shoeshine in London, 1936

Street scene in London, 1933

Street scene in London, ca. 1930s

Traffic signals on Oxford St, London, 1935

 Victoria Bus Termina, 1939