Street scenes

NOTES: This concrete block crossing was one of several types constructed by local boroughs complying with the Ministry of Transport's directive that demarcation should be by a lane of studs terminated by a Belisha beacon. Such crossings were superseded by the zebra crossing which, having been experimented on a 1000 sites throughout the UK in 1949, was introduced into law in 1951.

NOTES: This zebra crossing was one of several types of crossing constructed by local boroughs complying with the Ministry of Transport's directive that demarcation should be by a lane of studs terminated by a Belisha beacon. This must have been one of the earliest zebra crossings in the UK, which were introduced experimentally in 1949 on 1000 sites and subsequently introduced into law in 1951.

NOTES: The Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings covering 22 acres between 48th and 51st streets in Midtown Manhattan. The original complex of 14 Art Deco style buildings, commissioned by the Rockefeller family and named after John D. Rockefeller Jr., was designed by an association of architects under the leadership of Raymond Hood and was built in 1931-1940

NOTES: The market opened from 1817 and market hall added by Carrick in 1852

NOTES: This structure was destroyed by fire in 1984.

NOTES: The illuminated advertising hoardings on buildings began in the 1900s.