Postcards of the Past
London Borough of Camden
The London Borough of Camden is situated to the north of the City of
London, reaching from Holborn and Bloomsbury in the south to
Hampstead Heath in the north. The following areas are in the Borough:  
Agar Town; Belsize Park; Bloomsbury; Brondesbury; Camden Town;
Chalk Farm; Covent Garden (part); Cricklewood; Dartmouth Park;
Fitzrovia; Fortune Green; Frognal; Gospel Oak; Hampstead; Highgate;
Holborn (part); Kentish Town; Kilburn;  King's Cross; Primrose Hill;
Regent's Park (part); Saffron Hill; St Pancras; Somers Town; South
Hampstead; Swiss Cottage; Tufnell Park; West Hampstead. Also part of
London's West End is in the borough.
Gray's Inn Road and Holborn Town Hall in the early 1900s.
The British Museum.
A 1923 postcard of the Bedford Hotel on Southampton Row.
A great aerial view of the Russell and Imperial Hotels.
An interesting card from the 1910s which shows a German Bookshop in Charlotte
Street,  just south of the Euston Road.
An undated postcard of Southampton Row.
Russell Square and the Russell Hotel in the early 1900s.
Russell Square in the 1930s.
A 1930s postcard of the Bangor Hotel in Bedford Place.
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Golders Hill Park, Hampstead - a card mailed in 1926.
Hampstead, Fitzjohns Avenue - an undated postcard.
Hampstead from Parliament Fields - a postcard mailed in 1911.
Hampstead - Jack Straw's Castle. In spite of the information provided in this link, I
believe that this old pub has been converted to flats.
This postcard of cottages on Hampstead Heath dates from 1906.
Lincoln's Inn.