Putney Bridge - the return: 1872 Frame:black Tea merchants are also shown

Tea merchants are also shown sampling the tea - which is unlikely to have happened until after the cargo had been properly warehoused

Couples on the dodgems ride

Collins created a number of night-time photographs playing with the bright lights of the West End to record people enjoying the buzz of fifties nightlife

by Lower Thames Street

The section covers the area between Battersea Park in the North West

Putney Bridge - the return: 1872 Frame:black Tea merchants are also shownAn illustration of the Boat Race at Putney Bridge from 'London, a Pilgrimage' by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Dor, 1872. Jerrold describes the scene, with the Oxford and Cambridge rowers approaching 'amid frantic shouting, amid a snow storm of pocket handkerchiefs and delirious ravings of purple faced betting men'. The rowers are followed by a 'helter skelter' of steamers 'hidden under their human burden and gay with bunting'. On the bridge the