A keen photographer since childhood, Allan Hailstone’s beautiful images are a tribute to London of the 1950s. Fogs, Soho at night, the remnants of St Giles, lost theatres … Here is a taste of how things were…
Warner Cinema, Cranbourn Street, London, 3 January 1957.
Trafalgar Square, London, 5 November 1955.
Trafalgar Square CND London, 24 September 1960
The Strand, London, 1 August 1955.
Southampton Row, London, 2 August 1955.
Piccadilly Circus, London, 2 April 1956.
Outside Foyle’s Bookshop, Charing Cross Road, London, around mid-1961.
Near Tottenham Court Road tube station, London, 1 August 1955.
Men outside shop Charing Cross Road, London, 5 November 1955.
Leicester Square, London, 11 April 1955.
Leicester Square, London, 2 April 1956.
Aldwych, London, 1 August 1955
Museum Street cnr. New Oxford Street, London, 1 August 1955
Charing Cross Road, London, 5 November 1955
Charing Cross Road, London, 5 November 1955 looking south
Charlie Gracie posing for promotional photos in London, c.5 August 1957
Foyle’s Bookshop, Charing Cross Road, London, 5 November 1955
High Holborn, London, 2 August 1955.
Kingsway cnr. High Holborn, London, 1 August 1955.
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