Hamleys toy shop, the Regent Street lights, turkeys at Leadenhall Market and Christmas dinner at an infants' school: the Museum of London releases 27 wonderfully evocative black and white pictures taken by Fleet Street photographer Henry Grant from its archive.
Grant was born in 1907 and for his whole working life made a living as a freelance Fleet Street photographer. It was between assignments, however, that most of his street photography was done and his work offers a wonderful window into the real lives of Londoners over four decades.
In 1986 the Museum of London bought his archive of more than 80,000 black and white pictures of post-war London life. This Christmas batch is released to mark the opening of the Museum's London Docklands Santa's Grotto - which will be open until December 23.
