The history of London through a lens - the Press Association Image Collection

I spent the weekend in a room covered with light pine cladding, the kind that you might see on the set of an early 70's porn movie. The boyfriend is redecorating at the moment so we spent the weekend wrestling paint onto the surface of cheap horrible plastic boards that just refused, point blank, to die. We eventually emerged, covered in paint and victorious, to consider what would set off his newly painted and large-looking kitchen over several glasses of very agreeable Portuguese wine. I was really impressed when he found the Press Association Image Library. It's full of really impressive vintage London shots that chart the history of the city over the last hundred years. I particularly like the pictures of the old markets and the images of the Pankhurst sisters speaking at Trafalgar Square rallies. They're surprisingly reasonable too and start about £5 for a small print. They'd look fantastic framed in a group.