A group of very well-dressed women taking advantage of winter sales in the West End

London has changed an awful lot in the past century. From new technology to high rises popping up across the city, it’s pretty much unrecognisable from what it was back in 1924 on the surface.

100 years ago, during the Roaring Twenties, World War I had ended, nightlife was buzzing and women were just getting the right to vote. The country was becoming wealthier for a time, with a boom in new fashion, nice cars and exciting new things to see and do.

These incredible photos from 1924 across London capture what the city was at the time. With people driving automobiles and livestock on Waterloo Bridge, it seems rather strange and unfamiliar.

But at the same time, the people aren’t that unalike from ordinary folk across London today – you have boys messing about in the snow, shoppers advantage of West End winter sales, friends playing Regents Park and children celebrating Christmas.

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1. A boy tests out the icy lake in Hampstead Heath during a cold snap (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

   

2. People queuing outside a soup kitchen (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

   

3. The driver of an Automobile Association car gives a lift to a city worker during the transport strike (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

   

4. Liberty and Co department store’s newly completed Arts and Crafts Tudor-style facade. Designed by Edwin T Hall and E Stanley Hall, this building was constructed from 1922 to 1924 using timbers from HMS ‘Hindustan’ and HMS ‘Impregnable’ (Photo by English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

   

5. A group of students from Harrow collect their top hats from Danny Hill on Speech Day, an annual celebration, in London (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

   

6. A London bus driver uses a new 10-tonne jack to lift a bus. (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
   • A woman playing the banjo in a boat on the river Thames at Hampton Court, interests a swan (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

     

   • A boy shouts through a megaphone at the Stamford Bridge baseball grounds on the opening day of the American Legion Baseball season. (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

     

   • A woman assembles telephones in a London factory in 1924, following the introduction of automatic telephone exchanges. (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

     

   • Some happy shoppers during the winter sales at West End stores. (Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

     

   • The nighttime scene in Trafalgar Square during the General Election on October 29, 1924 (Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
   • Waterloo Bridge open to all sorts of traffic (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

     

   • A crowd of people at the children’s Christmas party at the Press Club (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

     

   • A group of suffragists picket outside the House of Commons. At the time, a bill was being passed giving women the right to vote at the age of 21 (Getty)

     

   • Crowds outside the Gaiety Theatre in Aldwych during the General Election (Paul Popper/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)

     

   • Workers decorate Old Bill, a bus from World War I, with garlands and wreaths for Poppy Day in honor of the World War I Armistice (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

     

   • The leader of a polytechnic marathon race, sponsored by Oxo, is applauded by onlookers as he makes his way along a Southall street, en route from Windsor Castle to Stamford Bridge, which was 26 and a quarter miles (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

     

   • A view showing the entrance to Farringdon Street Station (now Farringdon Station) on the Metropolitan line (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

     

   • A speaker at a communist rally in Trafalgar Square addresses the crowd from beside the lions at the base of Nelson’s Column. (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

     

   • Tennis players getting ready for a game in Regents Park (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
   • Boy Scouts dressed up in Native American costumes file out of the arena at Wembley Stadium in London after their jamboree. (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

     

   • Congestion on Blackfriars Bridge following the closure of Waterloo Bridge for repairs (Sunday Pictorial/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)

     

   • Tower of London with Tower Bridge in the background (Photo by English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

     

   • Girl Guides of the 13th Camberwell group seen here being presented with the Princess Mary standard by Princess Mary at the Central Hall, Westminster (John Mead/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)

     

   • A vintage postcard featuring the entrance to White Hart Lane, the Tottenham Hotspur football ground (Paul Popper/Popperfoto via Getty Images)
   • Men at work inside the Fitting Shop of the Royal National Life Boat Institution workshop at Poplar (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)