Image detail from The Theatre World and illustrated stage review Issue no.4 IN9140 The new House of Commons

The new House of Commons and House of Lords opened in 1852

play rock-n-roll music on the jukeboxes and socialise

archival recordings and memoirs by the women and men who came to Britain from the West Indies between the late 1940s and the early 1960s

George Davison Reid took this photo from a sailing barge moored in Greenmoor Wharf

this church was designed by Francis Octavius Bedford in the classical style

Image detail from The Theatre World and illustrated stage review Issue no.4 IN9140 The new House of CommonsDetail of the cover image from Issue no. 4 of The Theatre World and illustrated stage review for May 1925. An illustrated monthly review of London's theatres. Published by the Claremont Publishing Co. Ltd, Henrietta Street, London. The cover design is by Bovey