Whether you live in the capital or visit from time to time, chances are you’re often overwhelmed by the number of people in London, as well as the architecture, both old and modern – but the city hasn’t always looked like this.
Expedia UK’s “Historic London” project allows you to take a virtual Google Street View tour of 14 popular London locations with overlaid images showing how the same spots looked up to 100 years ago.
While the tour shows how architecture has changed over the past decades, it also reveals which views have stayed quite similar and kept their historic beauty intact.
From Clapham Common to Harrods and Covent Garden, scroll down for screenshots that show the before-and-after effects of some of London’s most popular landmarks.
Buckingham Palace — 1908
Cheapside — 1909
Clapham Common — 1915
Covent Garden — 1905
Fleet Street — 1890
Harrods — 1940
Houses of Parliament — Date unknown
Hyde Park — 1920s
Oxford Street — 1961
Oxford Circus — 1904
Piccadilly Circus — 1949
Stockwell — 1920s
Westminster Abbey — 1911
Whitehall — 1910
