Piccadilly Circus, 5th November 1956
These fascinating colour photos of England’s capital were taken by an unknown photographer although we know he was probably Canadian and almost certainly an architect.
BEA Waterloo Terminal 1956
Trafalgar Square, 1958
Number 10, Downing Street, 1956
Tower Bridge, 1956
Royal Festival Hall, 1956
London Airport Control Tower, 1965
Cafe at the top level of the Passenger Building, London Airport (it wasn’t to be called Heathrow for another ten years), 1956
St James Palace, London, 1956
Landseer Lions, Trafalgar Square, London, 1958
View of London Bridge from Tower Bridge 1956
View down Whitehall from Trafalgar Square (including Big Ben), May 1958
Tower Bridge, 1958
Nelson’s Column, May 1958
Old Sunken Roundabout outside the Heathrow Tunnel (and just south of the Bath Road), London Airport, London, 1956
Photographs shown with kind permission of Graeme Fernie.
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