City of light...

The Houses of Parliament and Big Ben looking resplendent in John Anderson's oil on canvas, 1872.

#PaintingLondon

Londoners, whats the best London bus route?

📷 The no 13 bus near Golders Green / Henry Grant / 1979

A lady considering the purchase of a pet dog at Club Row, which was a thriving market selling pets and livestock including dogs, birds, hens and fish. The puppy trade was extremely popular there.

Lets see your dogs, birds, fish and more this #NationalPetDay !

Alas, it looks like we won't be seeing the #SolarEclipse here in London today 🌔

Do you remember the one that was visible in the UK in 1999?

👓 Tinted Victorian spectacles

Just the ticket for those April showers 🌦️

Fashions of London and Paris, 1805

Describe London in three words...

...and pop into our #DocklandsMuseum while you're there! 🐾

A market has existed on this site in one form or another for hundreds of years.

#CoventGarden on the 'Woodcut' map of the 1560s, with surrounding wall marked in green 👇

#OnThisDay , 2 April 1980. A demolition site in Floral Street, Covent Garden.

Wholesale redevelopment of Covent Garden following the closure of the flower, fruit and vegetable market in 1974 was successfully averted, but some rebuilding work away from the Piazza was allowed.

A House at Hampstead.

Is that cherry blossom on the left?

🎨 Robert Polhill Bevan, 1917

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Rolling into #EasterSunday 🐰

Tin toy purchased by Ernest King for one penny (1d) from a London street trader on 10th December 1906.

It's true! The cry was first recorded in Poor Robin’s Almanack in 1733 as ‘Good Friday comes this Month, the old woman runs, / With one or two a Penny hot cross Bunns’. 🍪

The term “egg money” refers to side income earned by farmers’ wives from the sale of eggs and dairy products 🥚💸

The first chocolate egg was produced in the UK, by J.S. Fry & Sons Ltd, in 1873 🍫

The answer is indeed Germany! 🇩🇪🥚