London's Contrasts

1924 | 3 mins (extract)

Touching upon many issues still very much relevant to London life today such as big department stores vs traditional markets and squeezing houses into tiny gaps between buildings, this film encapsulates the many faces of London. Opening with the glitter and pageantry of the West End where guards march, we wend our way to the 'disorder of the East' as London's last horse-drawn bus takes us down Regents Street past the chic Parisian export, Galeries Lafayette and on fleetingly to the Old Vic theatre. As our journey continues comparisons are made between the areas around St. Paul's and the Admiralty and Soho and Caledonian Markets. Nestling under Hammersmith bridge is London's little fishing village now, unfortunately, long gone but what a treat it is to know and see that it once existed.