Step through time with familiar views of capital’s history in Bank’s exhibition

The show, called Picture the City, will demonstrate how much — or how little — has changed over 300 years

(Picture: HANDOUT)

Londoners will get a glimpse into the city’s past in a new exhibition which lines up landscapes with the views that inspired them.

The show, called Picture the City, will demonstrate how much — or how little — has changed over 300 years.

The paintings from the Bank of England Museum depict Londoners going about their everyday lives: crossing London Bridge, shopping or having a picnic at Hampstead Heath’s Ponds.

Then and now: St Paul’s as we know it today and a view from 1780 (pictured) (HANDOUT)

Museum curator Kirsty Parsons said: “Picture the City will use landscape paintings to show how the economic landscape of London has changed over the past centuries.

“This exhibition explores how the people of London have always been looking for ways to live, work and play in the city and the ways in which our daily lives have both changed and remain the same.”

The exhibition, which will also be available to view online at Google Arts & Culture, starts today with a full list of locations on the Bank of England Museum’s website.

The museum is currently closed but reopens in spring.