London's Free Shows

A Mormon weds a rich English girl, takes a second wife in Utah, and is killed by his first wife's lover.

A contentious but historic boxing match of 1810 is vividly revisited in this power-packed silent drama.

A decadent tale of drugs and the London underworld the cosseted daughter of a respectable businessman - in fact head of a cocaine racket - succumbs to the pleasures of drink and drugs. Vivid nightlife scenes recreate the interwar world of flappers and hedonists; the dapper club owner and seedy street dealers.

The real London locations which formed the settings for various Dickens novels are shown, sometimes with characters from the books such as Little Nell and Grandad, Fagin, the Artful Dodger and the author himself superimposed.

A look at the Londoner's love of flowers, from domestic gardens and florist's shops to the great market at Covent Garden and the Piccadilly Circus flower girls.

A pleasure boat takes us up the Thames from Canbury Gardens, below Kingston, Surrey, to Shepperton showing the grand houses fronting on to the river and houseboats of the well-to-do.

London's cosmopolitan inhabitants are celebrated in this episode, featuring scenes of Italian, French and Greek shops in Soho and the Whitechapel Road.

Featuring views behind the usual facade of London's streets including the mews behind St. George's Hospital, Philios Terrace, Kinnerton Street, Dr Johnson's house and Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, Essex Stairs, Bankside, Clerkenwell and Smithfield.

This episode features some favourite Sunday activities of Londoners, including scenes at the Gaiety Theatre and a young couple riding a motorcycle. A romantic scene on London Bridge contrasts with the bustle of Petticoat Lane's Sunday market - a popular destination for the common folk - while high society ride in Hyde Park.

London is viewed from the 'new and fascinating angle' of Regent's Canal, passing from the docks in Limehouse through east London, under Mile End Road, past Hackney, King's Cross, Kentish Town, Camden Lock and London Zoo, finishing in Paddington Basin.

A poor woman poses as her rich twin to fool a mean landlady.

A cockney Coster exhorts his 'moke' (donkey) to take a trip to the outskirts of London to see the model home at Kennington Park, a windmill at Brixton, the Crystal Palace, Woolwich free ferry, Saint Augustine's Tower in hackney, Richmond, Strand-on-the-Green, White City with its old Olympic stadium, and the Old Kent Road.

Mormons capture women for their wives in this silent anti-Mormon propaganda film featuring the original organ music.

This rare film of stage actor and later cinema star Tod Slaughter opens with a view of St Paul's over the river and the bright lights of Piccadilly at night. Then the film moves off to the old Elephant Theatre on the New Kent Road, where Slaughter stars in a military melodrama. After the show, the film ends with a look at the Rowton House in Southwark, a hostel for the poor much admired by George Orwell.

Dastardly deeds are afoot when rivals for the hand of a young woman vie against each other in a bicycle race.

In this episode of Wonderful London, comparisons are made between West End and East, old and new.