London Life

From the collection of

London’s Screen Archives
London’s Screen Archives is a network of over 50 organisations with a collective vision – to preserve and share London’s history on film. The network is managed by Film London and we work with our partners to digitise, preserve, and offer access to their moving image collections.

London Life


A bizarre way to feed pigeons and an unusually popular spot of road fixing feature in this newsreel tour of 1930s London.

The undoubted highlight – although that might not be the right word – of this whistlestop tour of London in the 1930s comes at Parliament Square, where a woman puts food in her mouth and then allows pigeons to peck it out again, using her open mouth as a bowl. Very strange. Elsewhere, a crowd watches some men digging a hole on the Strand, an ice cream seller takes a break and we also visit Hyde Park, Piccadilly, Bank, Trafalgar Square, the Embankment and more. Very entertaining.

Travelogue on life in London.


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