As central London gears up for another huge New Year's Eve party tonight, these stunning archive images show just how much the celebrations have changed in the capital over the years.
Tonight's massive fireworks display by the River Thames will cost millions, with pictures and footage of it beamed across the world.
But a Getty Images archive of past celebrations in the heart of the capital show how things were a little quieter, and perhaps more civilised, in the early 20th century.
One snap from 1920 shows people in black tie dress at a civilised dinner at the Hotel Victoria.
In another from 1936, a group of women are gathered round the piano of theatre producer Lilian Baylis for a sing-song at her annual New Year's party.
If there's one thing that hasn't changed, though, it's the ability of central London landmarks to attract enormous crowds on the big night. #
The Standard's gallery demonstrates this with thousands of people pictured outside St Paul's Cathedral in 1927 and Piccadilly Circus in 1954.
It was the onset of the 21st century where the celebrations began to get a little more extravagant.
This, of course, was encapsulated with the huge Millennium celebrations on New Year's Eve 1999.
However, images of Met Police officers monitoring a huge CCTV screen (2007) and standing by with guns (2015) are a reminder - in a post 9/11 and 7/7 world - that the innocence of the 20th century has been forever lost.
But that, of course, has not stopped Londoners coming together en masse.
