EAW029481 ENGLAND (1950). Waterloo Station, the Festival of Britain South Bank Site under construction and the River Thames, Lambeth, from the south-east, 1950

New Bridge House P.H.

Shot Tower

Bayliss Road

Pearman Street

Stangate. With Operation tramaway beginning to make headway, Londoners were treated to the spectacle of new tracks being laid here in 1950 as part of the Festival of Britain works. A new one way system was put into place and trams went on to run round a circle of the building on the right down Lambeth Palace Road and up into Stangate. New track was also laid in York Road and Addington Street. Ironically the trams which originally used Stangate [having run up The Albert Embankment] were withdrawn on 6th January 1951. However, the new layout continued to be used right up to the "Last Day" on 5th July 1952.

Tram at the Waterloo Road terminal. Only one route ran from here - the 68 to Greenwich Church. Situated next to a fire station on one side of the road, and the famous Union Jack Club on the other it was convenient for both the main line station and the smaller one serving south east London and Kent. Horse trams served here from 1881 and electric cars from 1903. Stage 4 of Operation Tramaway saw the last trams run to here on 10th July 1951.

Two Pullman Coaches. Southampton Boat Train?

Bulleid Merchant Navy or Light Pacific with an M7(?)

At the time of the photo, it would have been the Red Lion, a Barclay Perkins pub.

Kings Cross Station 07/05/2014

Prince of Wales Theatre, Coventry Street, 16/06/2014

Holy Trinity Church Marylebone 21/05/2014

Shaftesbury Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, 21/05/2014

South Africa House, 21/05/2014

The Playhouse Theatre, Northumberland Avenue, 21/05/2014

Horse Guards Avenue, 21/05/2014

Whitehall Court, 21/05/2014

55 Whitehall, 21/05/2014

Banqueting House, Whitehall, 21/05/2014

The Walrus PH, Westminster Bridge Road, 21/05/2014

Westminster Bridge House, 1900, 21/05/2014

Lambeth North Underground, 21/05/2014

The mortal remains of Waterloo Necropolis station, destroyed in an air raid in 1941. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Necropolis_Railway

Waterloo East Railway Station from the Shell Building 1967

The Savoy

Free Public Library

Lower Marsh

Trams still running but they will be gone by July 1952.

Trams still running but they will be gone by July 1952.

Trams still running but not for much longer.

Festival of Britain site.

Royal Waterloo Hospital for Children and Women

The Old Vic

London University Senate House

Temple Church

Saint Dunstan in the West

Whitehall Gardens

War Memorial

County Hall

York Road

Waterloo Railway Station

Royal Festival Hall Site

Somerset House

Whitehall 28/02/2006

Lower Marsh 08/04/2014

Stamford Street 1967

Gray's Inn Gardens

Lincoln's Inn Fields

Lincoln's Inn

Saint Pancras Railway Station

Masonic Temple

Saint Mary le Strand

Saint Clement Danes

Somerset House

National Gallery 14/11/2013

The Strand

Leicester Square Gardens

Admiralty Arch

Horse Guards Parade

Whitehall

Whitehall

Trafalgar Square

The National Gallery

Bedford Square

Russell Square Garden

The British Museum

Shell Mex House

Cleopatra's Needle

Southbank Area Today

Watergate

Victoria Embankment Gardens

Charing Cross Railway Station

Hungerford (Jubilee) Bridge

Waterloo Bridge

Waterloo Railway Station

Westminster Bridge

Westminster Bridge

County Hall

Saint Thomas Hospital

Lambeth Palace Grounds

Saint John's Church Waterloo

Saint Martin in the Fields

Christ Church and Upton Chapel