London 1976, Howard Wilson resigned, Concorde commenced commercial flights from London, the IRA launched a bombing campaign in the West-End, the Brotherhood of Man won the Eurovision Song Contest for Britain, and London saw a long, hot ...
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Colin O’Brien’s photographs of London street markets in the 1980s. The images below show life captured in Brick Lane, Shoreditch, Colombia Road, Cheshire and Street. Source - Colin O’Brien ...
By the 1960s, Carnaby Street proved popular for followers of both the Mod and hippie styles. Many independent fashion boutiques, and designers such as Mary Quant, Marion Foale and Sally Tuffin, Lord John, Merc, Take Six, ...
Aldwych originally opened as Strand in 1907. The station was the terminus of a short Piccadilly line branch from Holborn. The branch was the subject of a number of unrealised extension proposals that would have seen ...
Street Life in London, published in 1876-7, consists of a series of articles by the radical journalist Adolphe Smith and the photographer John Thomson. The pieces are short but full of detail, based on interviews with ...
The air raids by German Luftwaffe planes on English cities and towns in 1940 and 1941 — attacks known collectively and famously as The Blitz — were terrifying, but they failed in their key aims: namely, ...
Pictures by John Hutchinson ...
Warren Elsmore, Chairman of the Brickish Association created this fantastic scale-model of St-Pancras station, containing 60,000 blocks, and taking 8 weeks to build. “I chose St Pancras Station after the Brickish Association completed a PR project for ...
On 29 March 1981, the first London Marathon was held. Some 20,000 people wanted to run. 7,747 were accepted. There were 6,255 finishers, led home by the American Dick Beardsley and Norwegian Inge Simonsen, who staged ...
Some amazing examples of old photographs of London. These remind us just how many buildings in London have been lost to regeneration, The Blitz, changing land use and fashion. White Hart Inn Yard.Borough.1880 “The introduction of ...
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